Desire is something that lives deep within a person, it can drive a character to act in a differently. Desire can be great, it can help you achieve your goals, whether is good or bad for you depends on what the desire is. In Shakespeare's tragedy “Macbeth” the main character, Macbeth has the desire for power. In “to his coy mistress” by Andrew Marvell the main character’s desire is to have sex with her mistress, and finally in the text “The virgins, to make much of time” by Robert Herrick the speaker desire to convince virgins to lose their virginity. Each desire can have a negative effect on the person or a positive effect on them but, What determines if desire is good or bad? What determines if desire had a positive effect on a person is how the goal was fulfilled. Power, it can is hard to get,and once you achieve it you have lots of control. In the “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare is a tragedy in which Macbeth the main character of the story has the desire for power. The first glance of his desire for power was at the beginning of the tragedy when he met the “Three Weird Sisters” after they said that he was going to become the thane of Cawdor and after this he would become the king. After hearing this Macbeth's response was “Stay you imperfect speakers tell me more”(1.3.4 Shakespeare), Macbeth was intrigued by the prophecies made by the three weird sisters and it was here when his desire for power had started. His desire for quickly achieving power lead him to kill King Duncan. The three witches also had a prophecy for Banquo who was with macbeth at the time macbeth saw them, the prophecy was that Banquo’s child would become king, because of this Macbeth decides to kill Banquo “But to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo/ Stick deep, and in his royalty of nature/ Reigns that which would be fear'd. “(3.1.3 Shakespeare) Macbeth feels threatened by Banquos future king, the path that Macbeth's path to h