Ambition Essay

The play, Macbeth serves as Shakespeare's most notorious play ever written. The play demonstrates the damaging physical and mental effects of political ambition for those who seek power for their own selfish reason. Shakespeare loosely based the play on the Holinshed’s Chronicles which told events that transpired in history. Macbeth was based on the regicide in Scotland that occured in the 1600s. Although Shakespeare integrated historical events to enlighten people on the regicide, the play…

American society has long been based on the ambition of the American Dream. Immigrants moving to the United States came were generally lower class citizens in their old aristocratic country. The dream-- that it is wholly possible to start a business or job, work hard, and climb up the socioeconomic ladder-- gives hope to new immigrants and those who have nothing that they have the opportunity become something more. Although the nineteen twenties was a time when the American Dream appeared…

Ever since he heard the prophecies that promised him power, Macbeth’s mind has been descending into a disoriented state as time passed. In the duration of the story, Macbeth, under the influence of Lady Macbeth, the three witches and his own ambition, has changed from being a rational, levelheaded man to one of questionable integrity. With Macbeth’s coronation, not only does his inner turmoil affect his mentality, but also his behavior and senses. In act one, it all begins. Macbeth and Lady…

Success is based on merit, and economic inequality is due to differences in ambition and ability. Individuals do not inherit their social status; they attain it on their own. The American Dream is held out as a genuine prospect for anyone with the drive to achieve it. What about the static, nearly permanent element in the working class, whose members consider the chances for mobility remote and thus despair of all hope? These people are shunned, hidden, forgotten and for a good reason because…

My ambition was always to become a doctor because I loved and honored the fact that from “the cradle to the grave”, human race is safeguarded from infinite infections by white-coated medical professionals. However, the thought deepened further, when I first saw a close relative of mine getting a renal transplant, when I was 14 years old. I was amazed by the beauty of profession. My assumption was that only inanimate objects were repairable, however the thought of replacing a damaged organ was…

hero” flawed by his unbridled ambition. He hears a wonderful prophecy from witches- that he is to become king. He decides to act upon his future through his ambition. Throughout the play, this ambition grows, progressing from a hidden thought, to a frightening reality, and finally into a paranoia that haunts him. Together, the play illustrates the life of a man who, cursed by a fatal flaw, ruins his own future. In Macbeth, Macbeth’s immoderate ambition suggests that ambition can often cause…

In Macbeth, Beowulf, and the Pardoners Tale the three poems prove ambition is completely clear as a thematic topic. Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer use a unique way to prove ambition is a transforming poison, all characters prove ambition as a destructive trait, and results in ambition to make oneself become ignorant to right and wrong. Macbeth was not just any common general before the prophesy. He was known as being grand and loyal. One assumption that he could be king and he portrayed…

If you had the option to bring anything -or anyone- back from the dead, would you take the opportunity knowing there’d be consequences? In the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the main character Victor Frankenstein gains an obsession with discovering the secret to reanimating a corpse. His morbid obsession begins to drive him insane. His colleagues call him deranged, but no distractions deterred Victor from his fascination. He becomes very sickly and even leaves his lover and his sanity behind…

Ambition Poor little Suzy isn’t going to get to eat tonight because her father decided to spend his paycheck on lottery tickets that didn’t win. A man is going to prison for life because a gang said it was part of his initiation. A lady is jumping from boyfriend to boyfriend because she believes she will find the one any day now. Each of these scenarios are worlds apart, yet they relate back to one thing: ambition. Though not everyone may think about it so much, but in literature it is displayed…

Ambition, an aspect of life that has always been prevalent in people and in their actions, originated from the Latin language. This now English word was derived from the Latin noun “ambitio,’ which in ancient Rome, were people who desired to be elected and in order to do this, went around their area gathering votes and trying to establish themselves. The development of this Latin root throughout the Middle Ages has led to the broader word of ambition. In the modern world, ambition is still…