How can blind ambition lead to someone downfall? One of Shakespeare play was Macbeth. This play is about a humble kinsman who became selfish and power hungry. When, he told his wife about the prophecy the three witches told him everything around him started to change. In the article “Blind Ambitious can lead to one’s downfall” by Robin-Mae Deang explain that if you have a goal sometimes it can turn into blind ambitious. How it effects you and the people around you. Where, or when you have a blind ambitious. In Macbeth we see that he started to have a close mind and how his decision was affecting him and other people around him. Blind ambitious lead to Macbeth’s downfall because it leads him to destruction made him selfish, narrow minded, and also had him made poor decisions. Blind ambition leads to Macbeth’s downfall because he only had one goal and he’ll would do whatever it took to achieve it. “When politician become too proud to consider making a change in the way that they govern over their area, there is a big possibility that they are setting themselves for failure. This idea keeping a closed mind also applies to the individual and can have a similar result.” Macbeth only saw himself during the play. He was so focus being king and keeping the throne he became closed mind. He …show more content…
“But sometimes achieving a goal that can overwhelm every aspect of a person’s life making it nearly impossible to focus on other things and ultimately it harms them. Ambition and determination when taken too far and out of perspective, can negatively affect a person.” Macbeth achieved his goal of becoming king. As he reaches his goal Macbeth couldn’t handle the pressure because what he had done to become king hunted him. Macbeth didn’t want anyone else to become king. He would kill anyone who was a threat to him and the throne The more Macbeth killed the more he was losing his
Macbeth is also one of the most ambitious character as he does many crimes to achieve the power and become the King. Macbeth’s ambition started when the witches told him about the prophecies because of these prophecies he killed King Duncan and planned to kill Banquo. Before Macbeth killed the King, even though he was really ambitious he still thought before killing Duncan this shows ambition in a positive way. However, he still killed King Duncan this shows ambition in a negative way. The first time Macbeth met the witches one thing they said to Banquo was that his son will rule the world in the fear that someone will take his kingship he tried to kill Banquo’s son.
Both greed and power, if not controlled, can lead to destruction. Throughout William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, Shakespeare uses both characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to demonstrate how ambition can change one’s personal relationships. As in the beginning of Act 1, Scene 7 Macbeth and Lady Macbeth do not share the same ambition, and it is because of this that their relationship lacks love and affection however through the use of persuasion and other means, Lady Macbeth is able to get Macbeth to pursue her ambition. This not only changes their relationship drastically but it also changes Macbeth’s attitude towards ambition. Throughout the play, Shakespeare shows us through Macbeth, the possibility for ambition to eventually turn into greed and how the lust for power may corrupt us.
Blind Ambition The theme of blind of ambition is developed throughout Macbeth In todays world and greed. Comption often lead to tragedy. This in no different than the world. Shakespeare creates in Macbeth in the begging Macbeth in a fearless fighter whose ambition event all leads him to make crazy decisions.
Others say that Lady Macbeth is to blame for Macbeth’s downfall but the real reasons were his tragic flaws ambition and credulousness. One of Macbeth’s tragic flaws that can be blamed for leading him into his own death is ambition. Macbeth is first introduced to the audience as a righteous fighter who will unseam someone from nave to the chops.
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.
Like all of Shakespeare’s other plays, “Macbeth’s” protagonist Macbeth is incredibly successful but suffers from one fatal flaw, his great ambition. His ambition will be the cause of his great success but ultimately also of his downfall. The man’s ambition drives him to seize every opportunity to promote his own agenda. His ambition hurts him the most when he decides to kill King Duncan and Macduff.
At the end of the play Macbeth ambition was too big and it made him went to the wrong path which led to his death. First reason, Macbeth was thinking about murdering the king and it’s not a good choice. Then he finally did his unforgivable move which is kill the king when the king was visiting his castle. He couldn’t control himself because his ambition was getting too big and it swallow him. A quote in the play said ”
Macbeth’s failures are the direct result of the poor choices he makes when influenced by outside forces. The external influences of Lady Macbeth’s forcefulness, the witches’ prophecies, and his own blind greed conspired to ruin him. This demonstrates that people can be easily manipulated into self-depriving choices. Macbeth’s first failure occurred when the witches influenced him with their prophecy.
He used to be very kind, and had a lot of ambition for the right reasons. But Lady Macbeth has changed him, when he agreed to kill
Lady Macbeth easily convinces Macbeth to proceed and King Duncan is killed. While waiting for Macbeth to return from the king’s chamber, Lady Macbeth shows some of her own ambition, “That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold” (2.2.1). By successfully pressing drink upon the guards, Lady Macbeth is emboldened. Success turns many people overly ambitious, by seeing what the human race is capable of changes many people into power hungry ants. Lady Macbeth is one clear example of this fault.
Macbeth is ambitious, but Lady Macbeth is even more so. She has ambitions that far surpass the status quo; she orders the heavens, possibly the demon, to “unsex me now”. Macbeth himself is probably holds the most responsibility for his own downfall. You reap what you sow, as they would say. Macbeth is an ambitious man; he probably is too ambitious for his own good.
To conclude, ambition is a powerful force. It can be fueled by visions of power and lead people to change. This is best seen in MacBeth's character dynamic character. He changes from a good person, to someone who will kill anyone in his way to
At the end of the play, Macbeth’s ambition caused him to lose Lady Macbeth to suicide and to no longer have moral sense. Ambition led to Macbeth’s downfall because Lady Macbeth and the witches caused him to make brainless decisions that caused his collapse. Macbeth’s ambition led to his downfall because of Lady Macbeth's ambition. Lady Macbeth had
The play MacBeth has many themes throughout it. The theme I picked out is that your desire’s can blind your loyalty. This theme is expressed and expanded upon through the entire play, from MacBeth planning to kill King Duncan, to his death at the end because of the blind decisions he made. In this essay I will expand on this by showing how desires blinded the loyalty of MacBeth and Lady MacBeth in this play. From practically the start of the play, MacBeth is becoming corrupt when the weird sisters say he shall be “Thane of Glamis,” (1.1) which he already is, and “Thane of Cawdor,” (1.1) which a messenger is on the way to tell him he is, “Thou shalt be KIng” (1.1) which is very suprised at and he starts to become blinded to his loyalty to the KIng, Duncan.
In William Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth, Shakespeare portrays that motivation allows individuals to thrive for their goals, but on the other hand side, it might lead to destruction. Many times, individuals perceive motivation to remove obstacles that prevent them from achieving their goals. In William Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth, the character of Macbeth uses motivation to achieve his ambition to become the King of Scotland, after considering witches prophecies. Macbeth’s strong motivation and desire to become the king allows him to deceive King of Scotland, Duncan, because the King was the main hurdle that was preventing him from reaching his ambition.