Ambition

• “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent” 


  Although he is ambitious, Lady Macbeth’s evil influence is the reason he commits regicide
• “Damnation” and “angels” and “that summons thee to heaven or to hell”


  Semantic field of heaven and hell. Macbeth knows the religious consequences of regicide but his ambition drives him to commit the murder
• Contextual factors

  Great chain of being, regicide and Christianity
• Ambition is Macbeth’s harmatia, which is the desire to gain power and control over others
• In traders, a tragic hero must have a tragic flaw, which is a weakness that leads to their downfall.
• His death is result of his own mental disengration and avenging hero’s
• Morality play to audience, warning against those who seek to undermine or overthrow the rule of the rightful king
• If you are consumed by hubris you must prepare to face the consequences of your actions
• He presents ambition as a negative trait, a unnatural desire to achieve something at any cost
• “Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself”


  Suggests to fulfill his ambition to become king, he must overcome any obstacle, which for him is the under of Duncan