Macbeth

Macbeth

Submitted by oppapers on October 16, 2002

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Shelly Moy

AP LIT 4th hour

Shakespeare draws an amazing psychological portrait of a man who became a villain by means of ambition, desire and an imbalance of good and evil. "Macbeth" is a play composed of the disintegration of a noble man's world. The play begins by offering the audience Macbeth, a war hero, with a high regard from Duncan, the king of Scotland. By the end of the play Macbeth transforms into a universally despised man without a place in the social community. Shakespeare draws an amazing face of a man made to be a villain by ambition, desire and an imbalance of good and evil.

Macbeth, unhappy and unsatisfied with his social position, caused his feelings to snowball into the ambition that led him to the murder of Duncan.

"I have no spur

To prick the sides of my intent, but only

Vaulting ambition, which O'erleaps itself

And falls on th'other" (Act 1 sc. 7 pg 41)

By using an aside, Shakespeare allows Macbeth to reveal his ambitions. And uses Macbeth's ambition to create irony, in that his ambition was what brought him to power, yet it also leads him to his tragic downfall. Ambition is what allowed Macbeth to become more powerful, and helps him to overcome obstacles and