Ambition in Shakespeare's Macbeth

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In Macbeth ambition plays a huge role in character devolvement. Ambition affects four of the major characters. The characters are Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Malcom, and Banquo. The sisters are the source of Ambition. It is as if they control ambition. The ambition the sisters’ control is negative ambition. Ambition is, wanting to have more then you have and wanting it now. Macbeth’s ambition is powered by the sisters. Through the sisters he learns that he is to be king, he does not know how he is going to become king however. Ambition is the key to his downfall. Before he had this ambition he said that he would never have dreamed of killing the king to become king. The ambition drove him to kill the king, so that he could become then king. Lady Macbeth’s ambition also helps drive him to kill the king. The sisters make him have weird spells where he thinks that he is seeing objects. At one point he is seeing a dagger, ultimately it is the dagger that kills the King Duncan. Another instance is at a dinner held by Macbeth after he had killed Banquo he is giving a toast, and is saying th...

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