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Macbeth dramatizes the psychological and physical damaging effects caused by the political ambition of those who look for power just for their own sake. The driving force in this tragedy is the ambition, or more specifically, the ambition that goes unbridled by any theory of morality.
Macbeth's ambition and desire for power lead to his downfall. Shakespeare set Macbeth in the distant past and in a part of Britain that few of his audience would have been familiar with....
Jul 20, 2023 · In William Shakespeare’s timeless play, “Macbeth,” the central character undergoes a tumultuous transformation from a noble and valiant warrior to a power-hungry tyrant.
- “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.” The King in Henry IV, Part 2 (3.1.31) At a time of night when most of his subjects are asleep, the king is up and busy about his affairs.
- “My crown I am, but still my griefs are mine. You may my glories and my state depose but not my griefs; still am I king of those.” King Richard in Richard II (4.1.200-203)
- “I think the King is but a man, as I am. The violet smells to him as it doth to me. The element shows to him as it doth to me. All his senses have but human conditions.
- “We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey, and let it keep one shape till custom make it their perch and not their terror.”
Jan 2, 2014 · This is an allusion to Mark Antony and Julius Caesar, two famous Roman politicians and leaders of the Roman Republic, as well as a reference to Shakespeare’s play Antony and Cleopatra, in which a soothsayer predicts Antony’s fortunes would be lesser than Caesar’s.
This is what Macbeth calls Lady Macbeth when she reads a letter from him, and shows that they see each other as equals. Both invested in power and ambition. Lady Macbeth to Macbeth: "Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it."
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In Julius Caesar, as the assassins stand around the slain Caesar’s body, Brutus says, ‘ambition’s debt is paid.’ The assumption is that a man who acts on his ambitions has to pay a heavy price for doing so.
