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. ... And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely? ... Macbeth's second meaning is that "Fair is foul, foul is fair."" (Act I, Scene I) This nonsense riddle displays the powerful meaning that things are not always what they seem to be. ... There is a conflict between fate and man...

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He goes on to state " there is also a contrast throughout the play between the powers of light and darkness Many scenes are set in darkness. ... The images of light and darkness as a contrast is very evident through out the play, the " dualities related to the light verses the dark motif include contrasts between angel and devil, heaven and hell, and truth and falsehood" (Muir, 270), these are the meaning behind the contrasts. It is very evident that the play is a battle between good and evil, the light and darkness images contrast each other to represent this battle and make it clearer to se...

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• Grade Level: High School