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Today, you have to be ambitious to achieve great things, but can it ever be your own enemy?

William Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth, is about a respected general in the Scottish king Duncan’s army , called Macbeth. Three witches get a prophecy about Macbeth, that he will become king one day, as we can read in act 1, scene 3, line 48-50;
“1 witch. All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!
2 witch. All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!
3 witch. All hail, Macbeth! that shalt be King hereafter.”

When Macbeth hears this prophecy from the witches, he is very interested and curious. Banquo on the other hand is quit sceptical of the three witches prediction and Macbeth’s reaction to it.
“I' th' name of truth, Are ye fantastical, or that indeed which outwardly ye show?” (act 1, scene 3, line 52-54).

Macbeth is taken by the idea of becoming the king of Scotland one day, but not less than his wife, Lady Macbeth. When Lady Macbeth hears about the witches prophecy in a letter from Macbeth (act 1, scene 5), she immediately desires, Macbeth to become king.

She does not think that he has what it takes to become king, because he is too honorable. “Yet do I fear thy nature: It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness,(...) wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win” (act 1, scene 5, line 16-22).

This text example shows how Lady Macbeth knows that Macbeth would not take action on the prediction, but how she knows that if she pushes him, he would.

Lady Macbeth uses their love as way to manipulate Macbeth, in act 1, scene 5 when Macbeth returns home and greets her with “My dearest love”, thereafter Lady Macbeth immediately tells him that Duncan will be dead by the next morning and he has to pretend as nothing is wrong.

When the time finally comes, Macbeth does not want to go through with it, but Lady Macbeth pushes him further in act 1, scene 7, line 42- 44; “And live a coward in thy own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i' th' adage?”.