Macbeth, a Shakespearean tragedy based in Scotland during the 14th century, begins with the three witches that Macbeth and Banquo encounter after they win their battles. The witches prophesy that Macbeth would be made thane of Cawdor, then eventually king of Scotland; they then prophesies a bigger reward for Banquo, although he may not be king, his children will. The prophesies drive Macbeth’s ambitions in the play and leads him to kill all that stand in his way of kingship. Machiavelli depicts Macbeth’s ambitions in his book The Prince when he said, “Men rise from one ambition to another. First they seek to secure themselves from attack, and then they attack others” (33). This illustrates that Macbeth would do whatever it takes to secure his position from attack and attack others to fulfill his desire. This leads the moral in the play, in the sense that Macbeth kills to gain what he wants. Macbeth advances his rise to the throne by committing the murder of King Duncan for his own gain. Macbeth even said that he has no good reason to kill Duncan only to further his ambitions. However, when Duncan makes Malcom the heir to the throne Macbeth says, “Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires; The eye wink at the hand” (333). This shows that Macbeth plans to kill Duncan before he speaks to his wife but he does not want to do the deed. When he says, “The eye wink at the hand” (333), he is telling himself to be blind to the deed of killing. It is his wife who is the one that pushes Macbeth to make the prophesy true. This is seen when she says, “that which rather thou dost fear to do than wishest should be undone” (334). This depicts Lady Macbeth to be ruthless, in the quote she says that once the deed is done he will not regret the decision of committing it. This only pushes Macbeth to further his objective of which that he already held. She gives reason to Macbeth to fulfill his ambitions of bec