What Drives Macbeth to murder throughout the play

What Drives Macbeth to murder throughout the play

1. Vaulting Ambition

   • His desire for power and the ultimate position.
   • "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself and falls on th'other" Line 25-28 Act 1 Scene 7

2. His Suseptible personality and the charchters that influence him

   • Lady Macbeth
     • "Yet I do fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way" 1:5:15-16
     • "That I may pour my spirits in thine ear and chatise with the valour of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round" 1:5:24-26
   • The Supernatural?
     • "And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths; win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence" 1:3:122-125

3. His Own Guilt

   • His guilt has left him incapable of accepting his sin and living  normally and so, he must continue his life of sin.
   • "Will All great Neptuen's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?" Act 2 Scene 2 63-64
   • "I am in blood stepped in so far that should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er" 3:4:136-138

4. His Insecurity

5. Not picked

   • The Belief In His Destiny