In Macbeth, Shakespeare reveals the tragic results of Macbeth’s craving for power. Revealed as an honorary worthy and loyal soldier, and filled with goodness and respect, Macbeth’s ‘obsessive’ ambition to become King follows the end of the dignified King Duncan. Macbeth’s kingship is nothing but a supreme form of derision.
Power becomes psychosis, and at ‘night’ Macbeth moves forward to madness, a madness of a king which cannot escape and takes the form of obsessive desire mined by fear.
The combination of power and ambition blinding man reappears in many of Shakespeare’s works. The same manner in which this combination played an important role in Julius Caesar for instance, the impetuous effects of ambition and power also affect the main in Shakespeare’s disputed play in the this paper.
Ambition has the capacity to highly lead a character into accomplishing amazing goals in life. Still, when it is taken too far, ambition can become a character’s main end leading flaw which ultimately ends his road for success.
Throughout the play, Macbeth is seen nonstop trying to reach more goals in life all determined from the main prophecy that as being a king.
The first time ambition plays a harmful role in Macbeth’s quest for power is when he in fact plans to kill the king. King Duncan, the present king when Macbeth hears the prophecy, honours Macbeth with great fervour after his many military accomplishments in the name of Scotland. Because Macbeth desires kingship over his own morals, he kills Duncan in the night after honouring Duncan with a feast.
The second time Macbeth’s ambition gets the best of him occurs when he orders the death of both Banquo and Macduff’s family. In killing these people, specifically Macduff’s family, Macbeth shows his true ambition of reigning as king by killing all possible threats to his reign displaying such a state of paranoia. This ambition in Macbeth’s life eventually leads to his fall from power because he cannot control its influences. If Macbeth had not given in to the murderous temptations and deceptive actions that came from his ambition for power, then he might have had a peaceful and successful rule as king of Scotland. During the last moments of a Macbeth performance on stage, as he feels himself increasingly cornered by enemies
The duplicity of Macbeth’s repeated questionits capacity to mean both itself and its oppositecarries such weight at the end of the play, because the whole of the play represents in very powerful form both the fantasy of a virtually absolute and destructive maternal power and the fantasy of absolute escape from this power; the peculiar texture of the end of the play is generated partly by the tension between these two fantasies.
Work Citation
1] Feraru, Cornelia. “Macbeth.” Academia.edu, www.academia.edu/36458519/Macbeth.
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