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"Macbeth Essay"     In the look Macbeth we see many common themes that do emerge. One of which is the theme of pipe dream which result at the end finally lead to the death of the main character. We see this in the eventual death of both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. In this essay I hope to show the dominant theme of intake and how it leads to the downfall of the main characters in the play.     We first start to see Macbeth acquire his ambitiousness to beat king in his quote when he says "if meet testament have me king, why chance may crown me, without my reproof"(I.iii.34-37). Here we see that Macbeth is growing impatient and eager to acquire the king. He just doesn&8217t want to sit back and grasp for himself to be crowned and let destiny run it&8217s course, he wants to be part of it when it happens, and he wants to be king right now. And this is when it all turns downhill. He is starting to become very amb itious for the thrown. We will also soon see that he will stop at nothing bypass of killing the current king and he will even go so far as to kill ane of his friends, and try to kill his son in order to try and become the new-sprung(prenominal) king.      Next we see this theme again when Macbeth says "Me thought I instructd a voice cry "Sleep no more, Macbeth does carrying into action sleep," the innocent sleep"(II.ii.64-66). Here again we see Macbeth is starting to hear voices and he is starting to go a little crazy. Here is where things rightfully start to head downhill, and they go down fast. Because of Macbeth&8217s ambition for king he has killed the current king. Now he thinks he is auditory sense voices that keep him from getting his sleep. And as we will later see, Macbeth will eventually die due to his over eager ambition to become the new king. The event of killing the king will set into play a whole chain of events that will soon show the downfall of Macbeth from his short lived thrown.     On the other hand we can also see this ambition with Lady Macbeth. She also shows us the signs that she is getting over ambitious to become the new queen when she says "Thou wouldst be great Art not without Ambition, but without, the illness should attend it"(I.