Macbeth Ambition Essay Examples

William Shakespeare

Unchecked by moral constraints ambitions lead to destruction and find the most powerful expression in the play's two main characters.
"I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on th’ other."

The main theme of Macbeth is the destructive changes that occur in a person because of his ambition and makes the hero overstep moral principles.