In life everyone has goals that they hope to attain and there are many ways that one can achieve these goals. To achieve what you desire you can either wait for time to take its toll, or take matters into your own hands and do what you have to do in order to fulfil your desires. You can attain your goal as long as you have ambition. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth …showed first 75 words of 1749 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1749 total…The Witches and his wife being major influences on him, made his life, in the end, deteriorate and to the point of self-sacrifice. Overall, having read the play my personal response is somewhat ambivalent to say the least. In some parts of the play you feel compassion for the character in others hatred for their actions. In the end, I say, I have to agree with the statement: “This butcher and his fiend- like queen”