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Macbeth was one of William Shakespeare’s best stories that
takes place in Mideval Scotland. Macbeth was once was a
general for his king but changed when the three wicked
witches visited him to tell his prophecy. Soon he was thane of
Cawdor but that wasn’t enough for him, for his prophecy
changed him to be greedy, selfish, bloody murderer, and
blinded ambition. This story that William Shakespeare has
created had drama, treachery, mysterious, guilt, and revenge.
“Bear welcome in your eye, your head, your tongue: look like the
innocent flower/ but be the serpent under’t” (Shakespeare 13).
Like all marriages Macbeth and Lady Macbeth agree with each other on
something and disagree on other thing. But since Macbeth wrote a letter
to Lady Macbeth saying that the king was coming to stay over and have a
dinner party, then come cross three witches they told Macbeth his
Prophecy. Now Lady Macbeth is blinded by ambition to become queen
and starts planning and provoked Macbeth to using his own blind
ambition against himself. Overall in this relationship Lady Macbeth has
the brains and the power to become queen. The meaning of the
relationship is that Lady Macbeth is provoking Macbeth to do something
that he doesn’t want to do but yet does it anyway. They are going
through a power struggle with each other. They are fighting to take
charge in the relationship which make a Corrupting Power of
Unchecked Ambition.
“O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! / Thou mayst revenge, O slave’’
(Shakespeare 40).
Macbeth and Banquo were close friends but now Banquo got betrayed by Macbeth’s
blinded ambition since the witches tell Banquo his Prophecy that Banquo’s son
Fleance will be fit to wear the crown upon his head. Now Macbeth mistreated his
power to murder his best friend out of blind ambition. The relationship that
Macbeth and Banquo was in fact unexpected that blind ambition can make do
things to hurt ones you love, but their friendship was something more beautiful
then anything before like two friends acting like brother with each other, Until
Macbeth became greedy with power and do anything to keep his crown upon his
head. Because Macbeth seen Banquo as a threat to his crown, the only thing
Macbeth can do is to kill Banquo. Macbeth felt unsafe knowing that Banquo was
the only person who knew about the prophecy that the witches told them,
Macbeth thought Banquo would do something to make Macbeth loose his crown
and his title.
“ Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from
the crown to the toe” (Shakespeare 12).
I think that Lady Macbeth and Duncan has a father and daughter relationship
between each other, because Lady Macbeth looked up to the king Duncan like a
father figure to her. The relationship is that Lady Macbeth is a victim of blind
ambition to become queen, and it so happened that the king is the target of her
plan. In the play it seems that Lady Macbeth can see her father’s face in the king
which means she wanted Macbeth to kill him instead of her so she provoked
Macbeth to do her dirty work. This is important because you wouldn’t expect to
kill someone that reminds you of your father. The theme is power and blind
ambition which Macbeth made Lady Macbeth become after reading the letter
that Macbeth has sent to her, And wanting the spirits to take her famine side from
her and to bold like a man to do the things she wants to do, to continue with the
plan to move forward in the future. only power can make you look like a innocent
flower but be a deadly serpent under it.
“I have done the deed. Didst thou not her a noise?” (Shakespeare 22)
After the three witches told Macbeth his Prophecy he was crowned
Thane of Cawdor But the witches also said to Macbeth that he will
be thane of Cumberland. The king Duncan crowned his eldest son
Malcolm Prince of Cumberland. Macbeth has a new target and it is
Malcolm to take the title from him but for now Lady Macbeth
provoked him to kill the king to take the title. The relationship that
Macbeth was a loyal soldier who betrays his own king to claim a
title that isn't rightful his. A power struggle to own something that
isn't yours and blind ambition to betray everything and anyone
that you know and love.