Question

MEDAL!!
What is the theme of the play Macbeth?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

The theme of Macbeth centers on how ambition and greed can overpower morality and overrun human nature.

The natural wish of all leaders to increase their power, such as Macbeth, transforms throughout the play from wish to ambition, to greed, to aberration.

This unnatural desire for power is the force that possesses the main characters consistently and with dire consequences.

Macbeth is a leader with good qualities. The audience can almost catch itself feeling sorry for his decline towards madness. This shows that ambition is stronger, more powerful and more consequential than Macbeth himself, hence ambition in itself could also be considered character on its own.