The drive inside of you that gets you to go for a goal or achievements. Ambition, the gas in the car. You can consider ambition the drive train inside of you. Ambition can be good or bad. If you have a lot ambition your going to get want you are striving for, but if your goal is not for the good of heart, then things can go wrong. In William Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, it shows a perfect example of ambition towards the wrong goal. Macbeth, the character with the wrong goal, has more then enough ambition to get what he wants that it eventually lead's to corruption, insanity, & arrogance.
Even the most noblest man's heart and mind can become corrupted. Macbeth is shown to be a noble and honest man in this play, but like any other man, something can corrupt the mind, and in this play, that is greed.
Macbeth and Banquo meeting the witches in a woodcu...
Macbeth and Banquo with the Witches by Henry Fusel...
The English actor Charles Kean as William Shakespe...The three witches in this play are the ones that get the little fire in Macbeth going. When Macbeth runs into the witches, they start the idea of him becoming the next king. He somewhat believes them because they told him "Hail to thee, thane of Cawdor" , which indeed he did become (1, 3, 50). So when plans take a path that didn't led to him becoming king, he began to think why he wasn't good enough to become king. Seeing Malcolm become king didn't go so well with Macbeth and this is were just a little more corruption adds on. After all of this, he talks to himself about murdering King Duncan to make himself king. He is on the border of committing the murder and just dealing with the fact that Malcolm was going to be king. He knew it was a treason to do...