Ambition : the road to perdition

• Main Author: Han, Cheryl Suling
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/35494
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a combination of tragic heroism, fate and ambition, culminating in the death of its titular hero. The play sees Banquo and Duncan posited as sacrificial lambs whose lives must be forgone to make way for Macbeth’s ascension as king, a position from which he will inevitably fa...