Macbeth is the Shakespearean play that features the triumphant uprise and the inevitable downfall of its main character. In this play, Macbeth’s downfall can be considered to be the loss of his moral integrity and this is achieved by ambition, despite this, Lady Macbeth and the witches work through his ambition, furthering to assist his inevitable ruin. Ambition alone is the most significant factor that led to Macbeth’s downfall. The witches are only able to influence his actions through Macbeth’s pre-existing and the three witches see that Macbeth has ambition and uses it to control his action. Ambition alone is displayed throughout the play to be the most significant cause for Macbeth’s downfall.
In Act V it starts off with a doctor and one of lady Macbeth’s gentlewoman watching her as she sleepwalks and her actions while she sleepwalking. Then it goes into the men talking about leading the army and revenge and about how Macbeth has gone mad. Macbeth is refusing to hear anyone’s reports and he doesn’t fear Malcolm. Lady Macbeth kills herself because she has gone crazy and Seyton tells Macbeth. Macbeth tells Macduff that he will not fear any man born of a woman but Macduff was ripped from his deceased mother.
Throughout life, most people have the chance to make their own decisions. With these decisions, there will either be good or bad outcomes. In the case of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, these decisions lead to a very grave consequence; a tragedy. The main character in the play, aptly named Macbeth, makes some choices that do not match with the morals of mankind.
Emily Brown Mr. Sowden English 12A 18 October 2016 Power, Greed and Ambition Found in Macbeth In Macbeth, the characters´ greed and initial impulses drive them. Rarely do they consider the serious repercussions for their actions. Macbeth and his wife in particular stopped at nothing, killing multiple people in their way for Macbeth to become king. This puts them in a state of a dangerous rage, leaving a trail of lies and terror behind them. This state leads to consequences and a dramatic downfall later on in the play.
Macbeth is a tragedy that has a theme popping into my mind. The theme is that wrongdoing has serious consequences. From the beginning Macbeth was a noble solider that was told to be Thane of Cawdor but his side kick, Banquo son was told to be king. From there Lady Macbeth manipulated Macbeth into murdering King Duncan then by hiding their evidence they blamed it on the soldiers and executed them. Surely after that happened, Macbeth’s ambitious got the best of him.
Of all the failures human beings experience none are as crushing as those that are a result of following someone else’s desires. In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, the protagonist self-destructs because of his external forces as well as his own poor choices. An external force that influenced Macbeth includes Lady Macbeth’s strong goals, which she forced on her husband. Additionally, the witches impacted Macbeth’s choices by offering him their tricky prophecies. The blind greed that took over Macbeth’s life also impacted his choices.
Consequences of One’s Decisions Decisions all individuals have significant impact on their lives; and in Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, we see how choices made by three pivotal characters lead to tragic consequences. Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and Macduff all illustrate the cause and effect relationship between one’s actions and the consequences that impact one’s life the life of others. While these three characters make decisions for different reasons, the result is a tragic and significant impact on their lives.
At the beginning of William Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ the protagonist Macbeth is described as ‘brave’, ‘noble’ and ‘honourable’, however Lady Macbeth’s and Macbeths desire for power consumes them. Macbeth’s ambition overrides his conscience and transformed his greatest strength into his greatest weakness. Macbeth’s inability to resist temptations that led him to be greedy for power, Macbeth’s easily manipulative nature which allowed his mind to be swayed, Macbeth having no self control and his excessive pride was what allowed him to renew his previously honourable and celebrated title into one of an evil ‘tyrant’. Macbeth is led by the prophecies of the witches after they foretell he will become the Thane of Cawdor. Not only the witches, but also his wife easily manipulate Macbeth as she attacks his manhood in order to provoke him to act on his desires.
Macbeth started off as a valiant and courageous soldier, who would do anything for the king. By the end of the play, Macbeth was a tyrant and a horrible leader who killed those who trusted him to maintain the throne. It takes many factors to take a strong man and transform him into an evil monster. Macbeth’s downfall was caused by the deception and temptation of the witches and their prophecies, Lady Macbeth’s greed and aspirations for her husband to be king, and Macbeth’s own greed, jealousy and ambition.
In Macbeth, ambition is a dangerous quality. It causes disaster for both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth and causes deaths in Macbeth. Ambition is a lot in the play. Macbeth’s ambition is out of control and forces him to kill again and again to cover up his previous mistakes. Macbeth’s first victims are the Chamberlains who are blamed and killed by Macbeth for the murder of King Duncan.
This debate between the pity found in Macbeth’s mental state and the fear he evokes through his actions continues as Macbeth becomes a vicious tyrant. Not only does he kill off more of those around him, including the family of MacDuff, all for the sake of proving his power over those around him, but he rains famine and tragedy across the land. Macbeth’s inhumane actions easily draw fear from the audience as it expresses how uncontrollable and deranged, he has become; Macbeth is truly far from the hero first introduced. Extensively Macbeth begins to trust fewer and fewer individuals, he becomes more paranoid about the things going on around him. Specifically he can’t sleep and fears loosing his power.
In Shakespeare’s well known tragic story,“Macbeth”,there are multiple various scene’s involving war, celebration and murder. In the play, many character’s are described to have different types of literary characteristics and Macbeth, the main character, is considered a tragic hero. Macbeth’s tragic flaws qualify him as a tragic hero, these flaws are ambition and having lack moderation. The tragic flaws contributed to Macbeth’s downfall since it set his life to be in danger from the events taken place after the tragic decisions he made from his actions/flaws. Macbeth in Shakespeare’s well known play is considered as a tragic hero, with tragic flaws and those flaws contributing to his death.
Shakespeare's Macbeth is a brilliant example of consequence, and how it can change us and the people around us. In the play, Macbeth does a lot of terrible deeds, and the consequences of those deeds that lead to his demise. Macbeth murders all those near to him in order to become king, but his actions cause others to become suspicious and untrusting of him, leading them to betray him and revolt against their new ruler. Consequences are a prevailing theme throughout the play, nearly every important event can be strung back to another.
Have you ever done something you regret? Do you know why you did it? For the most part, people have regretted at least one thing in their life if not hundreds of decisions they have made. And for the most part, these people did these actions in order to get ahead in life. The invisible and mysterious force behind this is called ambition and is the thing that drives people to become successful and achieve their goals.
Macbeth, Crime and Punishment Macbeth, a warrior, earns the title of Thane of Cawdor early in the play. His wife, Lady Macbeth, wants him to become king like the witches prophesied. They make a plan to kill Duncan while Macbeth starts to kill other people. All this murder begins to weigh heavily on the Macbeth’s and they start going crazy with guilt.
