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The main theme of Macbeththe destruction wrought when ambition goes unchecked by moral constraintsfinds its most powerful expression in the play’s two main characters. The Thane of Cawdor is executed for treason. I am the one who secretly decides what evil things happen. The Corrupting Power of Unchecked Ambition. Front to front bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself withn my sword’s length se him, if he ‘scape heaven forgive him too. This is unusual because at the time women were seen as submissive in comparison to their husbands and would not be allowed to have their own opinions in the household. Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work.
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Arguably Lady Macbeth has the most ambition in the entire play "fill me crown to toe top full of direst cruelty" suggests she has no guilt initially, unlike Macbeth who does have doubt at the start. Shakespeare shows this progressing when Macbeth begins to have visions due to his guilt "a dagger of the mind, a false creation" the fact that the dagger is in his mind suggests that the overwhelming guilt of violence and murder is causing him to deteriorate yet ambition led him to this place. One example paragraph:The theme of ambition is presented as the direct cause of madness, This was ironically done by Shakespeare because Macbeth's hamartia is the ambition of power, and this is shown as the play progresses, both he and Lady Macbeth continue to grow more mad and guilty causing them to fall from power.