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    Ambition is a driving force that can lead to great success, or utter failure, depending on the purpose and intentions behind it. Throughout time ambition has proved to be a useful tool for not only prosperity, but also destruction. This great determination to achieve an end goal, but often at a huge cost, such as what has taken place with world leaders and in texts such as Julius Caesar and Macbeth. Although ambition can be a good trait, too much ambition will lead one down the wrong path and result

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    In shashere school life he was a pretty ambitious child. He wrote stories and poems about the different people in life. Altouggh ambition can make people reach their goeals it can also destry peoples on the way to their goal. In the schottish play that William shashere wrote it showed that ambition can be corrupted because Macbeth and lady Macbeth would do anything to be king and queen. Especially if it means that they have do anything to get to it. William Shakespeare was born in April, 1564 and

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    Deep Desires Having ambition in life means having a purpose in life, but too much of it can also spell the destruction of one's self. Ambition is an unyielding desire to achieve a goal. Most people think that living a life with a yearning of something is a key for success since it can help a person to strive for its attainment. However, they fail to see that being obsessed in chasing ambition may and can be their ticket to their downfall. Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, portrays how a man can set

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    A thane and his wife go through anything to get what they want in Macbeth by William Shakespeare. As Macbeth , and his friend Banquo come back home from a successful battle he encounters three witches who give them 3 prophecies. Macbeth was astonished by the prophecies they gave him, both which became true. As he told the news to Lady Macbeth, his wife, she convinces him to kill the current king, Duncan. Macbeth then proceeds the murder of the King, leaving him as the new king of Scotland. Meanwhile

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    what people really want to do or to have in deep of their heart, sometimes it doesn’t show on their face. Desire can be people's ambitions, freedom of love, or a strong body. Here is an example for ambition, in Shakespeare’s "Macbeth”, the character Macbeth grows his desire of power after he heard from the three witches that he will be the next king soon. His ambitions, the desire of power influenced him so much that it turned him into an evil person. In order to become the next king, he killed his

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    sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erlaps itself and falls on th’ other-” (Shakespeare 321). Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth highlights the dedication of characters towards a specific cause or achievable goal. However, the intentions of the character and the intensity of their pursuit varies as the action of the play progresses. Throughout The Tragedy of Macbeth, main characters exemplify the positive and negative influence of ambitions through their thoughts, traits, actions

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    In Macbeth, the murder of innocents is influence by evil, Macbeth’s ambition, and the presence of a curse. These three things are essential to the story - one of murder, treason, and betrayal. They drive the plot and move the characters to do what they do. Without them, this timeless tale of vengeance and lost loyalty would fall short of the amazing legacy that William Shakespeare has left his readers. However, it is important to note that the necessity of them does not detract from the atrocities

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    the same as the next. But we all have ambition. That’s what is so great about this world. Everyone has goals big and small.Whether it’s waking up for school to wanting become a supreme leader. These are all goals that are raised by ambition. But there’s always a line where ambition can go bad and ruin a person. Ambition is great until it leads into a dark place filled with greed ending in self destruction. Just like in Shakespeare's character Macbeth. Macbeth is portrayed as a hero that self destructed

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    War heroes are often natural born leaders. They manifest characteristics such has great ambition, immense courage, and boundless strength. These are essential qualities of satisfactory rulers. This is precisely the sort of leader that Shakespeare provides us with at the introduction of Macbeth. Ambition is the most crucial trait for any leader to possess. Without ambition, it is completely impractical to guide others to achievement as well, which is the overall goal of a successful leader. For example

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    Tragic Ambition As we all know Shakespeare is a very emotional writer. For example; Romeo and Juliet is a love story ending in death, Hamlet, in order to get the crown everybody died, and then we have Macbeth, a man with great ambition, challenged everyone to get the crown, just to end up alone and decapitated. Macbeth is a really dark story of how one man’s ambition got him everything, but was not able to really enjoy it. In Macbeth there are symbols that contribute the main theme of ambition. These

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