His downfall begins to manifest after Banquo suspects that Macbeth had a hand in the murder of the king. Manipulation and selfish ambition changed him from the loyal good ambitious soldier to a traitor. Macbeth goes ahead to kill King Duncan and is crowned immediately just as planned by his wife. He confesses to being overpowered by his ambition to act against his intent. Macbeth finds it hard to decide on murdering the king but when accused by his wife of being a coward and unloving husband, he decides to execute the murder.

She allows evil spirits to take away her femininity in exchange for bitterness to carry out the fouls necessary in ensuring her husband becomes the king. She has an evil ambition to become the queen and even evokes evil spirits to help her manipulate her husband. Lady Macbeth takes it on her own to manipulate her husband to kill the king so as to ascend to power. “Thou wouldst be great Art not without ambition, but without This however not an excuse as it is within his power to turn down the manipulation and trickery. It requires external forces to change MacBeth’s good ambitions to evil. This shows that Macbeth is too humane to carry out any evil act of greed for power. As Lady Macbeth reads the letter, she confesses to fear her husband’s willingness to forsake his morals for the evil required to become the king. Lady Macbeth is now aware of her husband’s ambition to be the king but fears he is too timid to do all that is necessary to ensure he ascends to the throne. The king visits Macbeth in his house and he uses this opportunity to write a letter to his wife revealing the witches’ prophecy about him becoming the king. He is to become the king by chance and the spell of the witches without doing anything significant. This clearly shows that he has lost the ambition to work for his success. Macbeth is now convinced that he will succeed by chance. They also told his friend Banquo that his sons will be kings They are convinced that the witches’ power is genuine as Macbeth is crowned the title of Thane of Cawdor as prophesied by the witches. Macbeth learns that he will be crowned the Thane of Cawdor and become the king immediately after the encounter. This good ambition changes immediately after the encounter with the three witches who corrupt their ambition with deceitful prophecies.

His companion Banquo is equally ambitious to perform to the best of his ability.

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