![]() Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itselfĪt first, Macbeth is reluctant to resort to violence in service to his ambition, but with prompting from Lady Macbeth, he slides down the slippery slope of sacrificing others for his own ends. ![]() To prick the sides of my intent, but only ![]() At various points, Macbeth himself is aware of this tension, as you can see in these lines where he describes how he needs his ambition to succeed: Eventually, this pursuit of goals becomes Macbeth’s hamartia, or fatal flaw.Īs the play progresses, the tension increases between ambition and what must be sacrificed to achieve a goal. Together with his wife, Macbeth commits increasingly more violent acts to achieve his goal, sacrificing everything for ambition. The witches tell him he will become king, planting the seed of ambition in his soul. The title character of the play Macbeth is a Scottish general who listens to the prophecy of three witches. Everything you need for every book you read. One of the strongest themes in Macbeth is ambition and the destruction that can happen when hubris and greed for power go unchecked. Macbeth by William Shakespeare Upgrade to A + Intro Plot Summary Summary & Analysis Themes Quotes Characters Symbols Lit Devices Theme Wheel Teachers and parents Struggling with distance learning Our Teacher Edition on Macbeth can help. ![]()
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