Macbeth Lit. Analysis

Macbeth’s Representation of Ambition From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefor abandoned. "Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and …

…into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak to me, who neither not by fear Your favours nor your hate. "(Act I, Scene III) Banquo was skeptical of the witches prophecy, thus prohibiting their spell to penetrate his soul, leaving him pure. If Macbeth and Lady Macbeth had not allowed their greed to take over and cause them to murder Duncan, their outcome may have been different.