Macbeth's Strengths And Weaknesses

In the play, ‘Macbeth’ by Shakespeare, Macbeth is a man with undeniably strong ambition, and true conscience. At the beginning of the play, Macbeth was portrayed as an ambitious soldier, who fought for his king. Although, once the witches planted the idea in his head of him potentially becoming King of Scotland, his strive and ambitious nature was one that turned into his weakness. Macbeth has changed subconsciously throughout the play and it is ambition that dominates his nature and ultimately causes this to be his fatal weakness.

Although Macbeth is flawed with the weakness of ambition, he is not all that bad. Macbeth is first presented as a good man who fought for his king with great courage. He was an extremely loyal and brave soldier