How ambition is a main theme in macbeth and how it ultimately destroyed him.
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Ambition is the Undoing
All hail, MacBeth, hail to thee, thane of Glamis.
All hail, MacBeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor
All hail, MacBeth, that shalt be king hereafter.
These three prophecies, made from three old witches, interject that MacBeth will be thane of Glamis (which he is), thane of Cawdor and the King hereafter.
When Ross and Angus bring him news that confirmed the second prophecy that MacBeth has been made thane of …
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…heavens cherubin, hors'd upon the sightless couriers of the air, shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, that tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only Vualting ambition, which o'er-leaps itself and falls on the other. MacBeth is preoccupied in a quarrel between his moral sense and the foul ambition that torments his mind, he has many reasons not to carry out the murder.
…heavens cherubin, hors'd upon the sightless couriers of the air, shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, that tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only Vualting ambition, which o'er-leaps itself and falls on the other. MacBeth is preoccupied in a quarrel between his moral sense and the foul ambition that torments his mind, he has many reasons not to carry out the murder.
