The drive Inside of you that gets you to go for a goal or achievements. Ambition, the gas in the car. You can consider ambition the drive train inside of you. Ambition can be good or bad. If you have a lot ambition your going to get want you are striving for, but if your goal is not for the good of heart, then things can go wrong. In William Shakespearean play, Macbeth, it shows a perfect example of ambition towards the wrong goal. Macbeth, the character with the wrong goal, has more then enough ambition to get what he wants that It eventually lead’s to corruption, Insanity, & arrogance.
Even the most noblest man’s heart and mind can become corrupted. Macbeth is shown to be a noble and honest man in this play, but like any other man, something can corrupt the mind, and in this play, that is greed. The three witches in this play are the ones that get the little fire in Macbeth going. When Macbeth runs into the witches, they start the Idea of him becoming the next king. He somewhat believes them because they told him “Hail to thee, thane of Castor” , which indeed he did become (1, 3, 50). So when plans take a path that didn’t led to him becoming king, he Egan to think why he wasn’t good enough to become king.
Seeing Malcolm become king didn’t go so well with Macbeth and this is were just a little more corruption adds on. After all of this, he talks to himself about murdering King Duncan to make himself king. He Is on the border of committing the murder and Just dealing with the fact that Malcolm was going to be king. He knew It was a treason to do It, and that “We soul have judgment here, that we but teach bloody instructions, which being taught, return to plague the” inventor: this even-handed justice commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice”, so he would just be a hypocrite in the end (1, 7, 8-11).
At this point he is not so sure about going through with it. When Lady Macbeth returns from the dinner she tells him that the plan will work. Macbeth is not so sure about doing It until Lady Macbeth questions “What beast was ‘t, then, that made you break this enterprise to me? ” and tells him that “then you were a man” (1, 7, 47-48) (1, 7 , 49). This is the final log to the corrupt fire burning in Macbeth, he decided to go kill King Duncan and thus bringing him closer to being king. After the murder of King Duncan, Macbeth corruption eventually leads to insanity.
Insanity Is what happens when you lose control of your own mind and conscience. You can’t control the thoughts In your head. You start to hear voices and seeing things. Immediately after Macbeth commits the murder of King Duncan, he is walking down the hallway while looking and talking to a floating dagger, ” Is this a dagger which I see before me” (2, 1, 33-34). He try’s to grab it but grabs nothing but air. He does not understand that, “l don’t have you but I can still see you” (2, 1, 35-36). This is the turning point for Macbeth, he starts to become Insane.
He goes to Lady Macbeth and tells her that he did what he said he was going to. He explained to her that understand what he is saying, but to the audience it is a clue, put in by Shakespeare, that he is on a clear path to insanity. The third sign of insanity comes after Macbeth has Banana and Balance murdered (which escaped alive). When Macbeth and Lady Macbeth decide to have company come over, the first murderer enters and tells Macbeth that Banana is dead but Balance escaped, Macbeth is worried but returns to he dinner, when all of a sudden The Ghost of Banana appears.
At first he thinks it is a Joke “Which of you have done this? ” , but quickly realizes that it is not (3, 4, 48) . He starts to talk to the ghost and then yells at it, as their guest are confused by this weird act. He tells the ghost “Vaunt, and quit my sight! Let the earth hid thee. Thy bones are narrowness, thy blood is cold. Thou hast no speculation in those eyes which thou dost glare with! “, as he realizes that it is not real but it wont go away (3, 4, 93-94). He starts to get scared of it because of its appearance, Banana dead and all Lloyd.
He tells it to show in another form, after this it vanishes. After this act of insanity, Lady Macbeth tells their guest that he is ill. The guest decide to leave and let Macbeth get his rest for the night. At this point the picture is clear, Macbeth has lost it completely: first he sees a dagger floating, then voices and now a bloody ghost. After realizing that Macbeth has gone insane, he gets to a point were he Just doesn’t care much about anything anymore, including the love of his life, and starts to become very arrogant.
After seeing Banquet’s ghost he decides to pay a visit to the here witches. He tells the witches to show him what he wants to see. They let him see three apparitions. The first one cautions him to “Beware Macadam (4, 1, 72). Second apparition tells him anyone born from woman can not harm him. After hearing this and knowing that Macadam cannot harm him, he decides to kill Macadam and his family Just to “make assurance double sure” (4, 1, 83). Final apparition says to have “lion-mottled”, along with being proud and not to worry about the ones who hate him (4, 1, 90).
Macbeth is still not satisfied with what he has been told. He wants o hear more but the witches tell him not to find out. He threatens the witches, “Deny me this, and an eternal curse fall on you! Let me know. ” (4, 1, 104-105). At this point Shakespearean character seems that he doesn’t care what anyone says, even witches, and wants everything he wishes for. At this point arrogance starts to settle in. When Macbeth receives the news that Macadam has fled to England he decides to “Seize upon Fife,” and to kill anyone who stands in his way(4, 1, 152). He kills Macadam’s wife and child .
The next sign of arrogance is when he tells the doctor I will not be afraid of death and bane” (5, 3, 62). At this point, the thought that Macbeth thinks he is invincible comes to play. The final signs of arrogance comes when Macbeth and Macadam fight to the death. When Macadam enters Macbeth warns him that “l bear a charmed life, which must not yield to one of a woman born” and says that he would Just be stabbing the air(5, 8, 12-13). Macadam was not born he was “Ultimately ripped,” from his mothers womb (5, 8, 16). Macbeth admits that it “cowed” his “better part of man! “, and that he will not fight Macadam (5, 8, 18), .
Macadam tells IM that he will Join a freak show then, and Macbeth will not do this so he decides to fight him because he will not “kiss the ground before young Malcolm feet,”(5, 8, 28) . Ultimately corruption, insanity, and arrogance lead to Macbeth death. One leads to the other only building closer to his death. Corruption was the little spark of ambition that got it going. Then insanity only added on to it and finally his arrogance drove him over the edge leading to his fate. Shown in Macbeth, ambition is not always a good thing, especially when it leads to corruption, insanity and arrogance.
