Macbeth's Ambition and Greed Lead Him to Become Evil Shakespeare's play Macbeth has three main points: appearances do not always accurately reflect reality, ambition and desire can lead to evil acts, and free will, not always destiny, influences the occurrence of events. ... To foreshadow that some of the characters and events about to happen are evil, almost all of the scenes take place at night or in a dark place. ... (Act I, Scene V, Line 60) Macbeth's third theme is that it is free will, not fate alone, influences destiny and our actions. ... At this turning point...

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• Grade Level: High School

The introduction of the play starts with the prophecies of the three weird sisters, who have a mysterious foreshadowing of the future for Macbeth. ... Like before he brings up his destiny again saying that he committed the crimes, gave up his fate, and it was all for someone else. ...

• Word Count: 1493
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• Grade Level: High School