Macbeth- ambition

Ambition is macbeths fatal flaw

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Ambition is macbeths fatal flaw

Lady Macbeth insults Macbeth by saying he won't act on his ambition

'Not without ambition, but without/ the illness that should attend it.'

Macbeth doesn't care about what is in his way, he is desperate to get the throne

'That is a step in which I may fall down, or else o'er leap! For in my way it lies'

Macbeth knows he is ambitious, which fuels him to kill Duncan

'I have no spur... but only vaulting ambition'

Macbeth at the start doesn't believe he has to murder to become king

'Chance may crown me, without my stir'

Banquo is not like Macbeth and is not as gullible, his conscience is pure and that is important to him

'But still I keep my bosom franchised and my allegiance clear'

Banquo again realises that the Witches may be telling the truth but it is still risky to believe them fully

'The instruments of darkness tell us truths'

Macbeth fights ongoingly and won't give up

'At least we'll die with harness on our back'

His ambition makes him dead

Macbeth dies as a tyrant

'Abhorred tyrant'