Comparing Macbeth And Great Expectations

In the novel Great Expectations which is written by Charles Dickens, and the play Macbeth which is written by Shakespeare the themes portrayed are very similar especially between the two leading characters, Macbeth who starts of the play as the Thane of Cawdor and Pip who starts of the novel as a blacksmith son from Great Expectations.
Macbeth and Pip both ambitious people and strive have higher in status and are will stop at nothing to achieve that goal. In both Great expectations and Macbeth they are tormented by a female who constantly questions their manhood causing them to take the actions that lead to their down fall, they did not care about the consequences they simply saw it as an opportunity to impress them and prove them wrong. They were completely blinded by their ambition and fail to see that it is destroying them and everyone around them including those they loved and those that loved them which is causing them to lose the people that mattered the most to them.
Macbeth’s downfall was solely caused by his ambition he became addicted to it and once he had it he didn’t want to let it go, he stopped at nothing to keep his throne
First, Pip wants to change who he is ,he is extremely hard on himself and feels immense guilt when he acts immorally by disrespecting joe ,after his actions he becomes motivated to correct them and change them for the better. When he leaves for London, he begins to feel guilty and aggravated at himself about having behaved so terribly towards Joe and Biddy. Secondly, Pip desires to be a social butterfly. In love with Estella, he wishes to become a member of her social class to impress her, and, encouraged by Mrs. Joe and Pumblechook, he begins to fantasies of becoming a gentleman and Estella falling madly in love with him as a result of his