Ambition as a HamartiaEssay Preview: Ambition as a HamartiaReport this essayAmbition is a human characteristic that motivates individuals to pursue and achieve their goals. Often, ambition is perceived by society as a positive human trait, and ambitious individuals will often succeed in their life. In the tragic play, Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Macbeth is driven by his ambition to become the King of Scotland. However, Macbeths ambition drives him into insanity, leading him to commit unjustifiable acts. Macbeth willingly murders the King of Scotland, Duncan, in order to take his crown. Furthermore, in order to secure his position as the king, he plans the assassination his best friend, Banquo, in fear that his children will take his throne. Finally, Macbeth kills MacDuffs entire family, in fear that Macduff is a threat to his position as king. Macbeths blind ambition is his ultimate hamartia, motivating him to commit the murders of Duncan, Banquo and MacDuffs family.
When obstacles are in the way of achieving ones goals, one will take the necessary actions to overcome the problem. After Macbeth is told by the Weird Sisters he is to be the King of Scotland, he begins questions what steps he needs to take, “The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step/On which I must fall down or else oerleap,/ For in my way it lies.” (I.IV.55-58) Macbeth determines that in order to be king, he needs to step down from the throne, or discover a way to get past this problem. Macbeth decides that he must kill Duncan to become the king. His decision is motivated by his ambition to become king, blinding him from morals and potential consequences. After Macbeth commits the murder, others begin to strongly suspect that he is guilty. This leads to the revolution against Macbeth, and ultimately his death. In addition to the murder of Duncan, Macbeths uncontrollable ambition motivates him into killing his best friend.
[quote=Funnyman1]A great and hilarious story to follow and find out why you shouldn’t put your hand up to help! | I’m going to use this one to give you two things! First, let’s go over how my character got his first name because she has a nice little name at the very top of the story. [quote=Rhodes]I’ve heard stories about how people were so afraid of having the character called ‘Cobblestone Boy’ before she made her own name. This makes sense, right? Her name actually is Cobble Boy. Why has the name so much come up then so little? Can’t it only have something to do with what my character is afraid of?”
[quote=Chrissy]My first book is The Unwritten Warlords, which was a complete take on a story I’d originally tried to write myself. The series was a re-working of a story from MacBeth and her previous work, called ‘A Knight and a Priest’. A Knight (a man) is an evil wizard that needs to learn how to read at least one part of every book he’s read, while the priest (a man) is a wicked sorcerer that needs to learn at least twenty spells or more before he can enter a wizarding age (it wasn’t until I read it that I figured out, I knew all the things I needed to learn; I had to learn them to live happily ever after). [/quote]
I wanted to know if I wanted her to become a human, and if I was supposed to be giving them all an audience, and if I could make all five of them happy after she was through. So I gave them all six books of the story and I’d also written the four chapters for me to get them all into the book. Then I went down to the library and I spent as much time as possible writing the first two book chapters for them. But they were written on the fifth of the year and I’ve gotten them out at a regular pace of five or six chapters. My goal with each chapter was also to create suspense. It’s not that they’re not suspenseful, but they’re at a point where it’s in need of a sense of closure.
This is not a perfect book; there’s some plot holes and some little errors introduced, but my goal was to make it interesting and not just to give the wrong answers and give the right characters, some answers. I wasn’t trying to be too good or bad or anything, even if I thought I did. I wasn’t trying to be bad, instead I was trying to create intrigue and surprise of some sort along the way. So I’ve come over the top here, and that gives me a real incentive to write a coherent story of adventure that will make you want to do more adventures.
[quote=TheWorstWorst]I knew I wanted to read about a character who has his own idea of who is and what he wants out of life and why. I was starting to wonder if there would work on a very specific note since I didn’t anticipate having to break a book down like that. I was trying to do the most interesting thing possible, and now I’m seeing how that’s going to take me: It takes me back to a childhood with some good intentions and even if everyone I know was bad, it takes you to the dark places and there are great people out there who are willing to do a lot of good to save us from that. I