![]() ![]() P 150 Lady Macduff doubts her husband and is disappointed by his inexplicable disappearance. His sons ask lady Macduff if his father was a traitor to which lady Macduff responds “Ay, that he was”. Macduff is gone and his son and wife are left to wonder where he is, ad why he’s abandoned his family. We see the dangers come to play in this scene at their unfortunate death.ĭisloyalty and treason. He left his wife and children despite knowing the dangers they may be in. Macduff is portrayed as a selfish and fearful character. How he interprets it may be different from the truth.Ī group of murderers, sent by Macbeth, arrive at Macduff’s castle and kill his wife and children. It shows the witches telling Macbeth to hear more of the prophecy. ![]() Tell me what I want to know.” He is ignorant and careless about the damage he will cause, that’s dangerous ambition. I don’t care if you unleash violent winds that tear down churches, make the foamy waves overwhelm ships and send sailors to their deaths, flatten crops and trees, make castles fall down on their inhabitants’ heads, make palaces, and pyramids collapse, and mix up everything in nature. I command you in the name of whatever dark powers you serve. He demands to be told the prophecy when he states, “I insist that you answer my questions. He doesn’t want the fact he killed Duncan to be fruitless He attempts to stop fate by killing Banquo, but maybe that was a part of fate anyway.Īmbition: Ambition brought Macbeth back to the witches. He spends all this time trying to stop the prophecy from happening. It is an interesting question as to if there is any control. He went from worry and fear about killing his dear Duncan, to needless death just to get his way.įree will and fate: to what extent is Macbeth in control of his own destiny? His sheer level of selfishness is disturbing to witness. Macbeth has become cold, mean, heartless, and selfish. She helps spread thoughts to plague his sweet mind with ambitions. Hecate is the goddess of the witches and she takes part in the delusions of Macbeth. ![]() Unchecked ambition, Macbeth suggests, can never be fulfilled, and therefore quickly grows into a monster that will destroy anyone who gives into it.Macbeth visits the Witches and is given three new prophecies: 1) to beware of Macduff 2) that no man who is born of woman can harm Macbeth 3) he is safe until Burnham Wood moves to Dunsinane Hill. By contrasting these two characters with others in the play, such as Banquo, Duncan, and Macduff, who also want to be great leaders but refuse to allow ambition to come before honor, Macbeth shows how naked ambition, freed from any sort of moral or social conscience, ultimately takes over every other characteristic of a person. Lady Macbeth, once she begins to put into actions the once-hidden thoughts of her mind, is crushed by guilt.īoth Macbeth and Lady Macbeth want to be great and powerful, and sacrifice their morals to achieve that goal. Macbeth, a good general and, by all accounts before the action of the play, a good man, allows his ambition to overwhelm him and becomes a murdering, paranoid maniac. Macbeth and his wife act on their own to fulfill their deepest desires. The weird sisters' prophecies spur both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to try to fulfill their ambitions, but the witches never make Macbeth or his wife do anything. Macbeth is a play about ambition run amok. ![]()
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