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Essay: Aristotelian Analysis of Macbeth The plot of Macbeth, to me, is arranged around ambition. For example, when King Duncan named Macbeth the Thane of Cawdor, Macbeth began to believe the prophec... ies and shared those prophecies with his wife, Lady Macbeth, who is ambitious and planned to murder King Duncan. I think the plot unfolds in five different acts as they continue where Lady Macbeth urges that her husband Macbeth kill the King so that he can become the new King of Scotland. I think the complications start to begin after Macbeth was told by the three witches that he would become the Thane of Cawdor and soon enough the King of Scotland. Lady Macbeth’s ambition of minimizing the seriousness and guilt of murdering King Duncan also added to the complications. The climax builds when Macbeth had just murdered King Duncan and was making his way back to his wife while still holding the dagger. Lady Macbeth then makes herself complicit when she admonishes him for nor leaving the dagger and then takes the dagger back to plant the murder on the sleeping guards. When Macbeth discovers the death of his wife from suicide and grief is when I would pin-point the denouement. His ambition for ruling quelled and thinks he is invincible and loses his life. Macbeth is the protagonist. His ambition to be king, as we can see is, he will do anything to be king, and this is what drives the action of the play. The plot also surrounds him and his ambition. I think Macbeth himself and his wife are also the antagonist because it was his wife [Show More]

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