Question

(25 Points)(9)Suppose you were reading a novel and came across this bit of dialogue: “You are a Macbeth, and you will fail!” What could the speaker mean by this reference to Macbeth?

1. The person is too ambitious and that will ultimately be his downfall.
2. The person's name is Macbeth
3. The person is in a powerful position and will rule everything.
4. The person is a weakling.

Answer 1

1. The person is too ambitious and that will

ultimately be his downfall

Answer 2

1: The person is too ambitious and that will ultimately be his downfall.

Step-by-step explanation:

Macbeth is the protagonist of Shakespeare's tragedy play "Macbeth". Macbeth's character has three main attributes i.e bravery, ambition and self-doubt and guilt. Bravery is mostly his past character; not much talked about in the play, ambition is Macbeth's driving force in the rising action of the play, and guilt appears in the falling action. So the strongest characteristic of Macbeth is his ambition. He is controlled by his ambition to be the king. And while in possession of this ambition, he kills Duncan, the King. Self-doubt and guilt of his personality try to stop his ambitions but ambition eventually wins, and this leads to Macbeth's downfall throughout the falling action where he is defeated and killed by armies loyal to the deceased king's son, Malcolm.

Macbeth's character is associated with wrongful ambition in the same way as Hamlet is associated with confusion to make a decision.