Two Examples Of Personal Greed In Macbeth

Based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth and the nonfiction article on Patti Blagojevich, it is clear that personal greed is the cause of corruption. There is much evidence from Macbeth to show that characters like Banquo, Macbeth, and Lady Macbeth all want some type of power and will do anything to get and likewise for Patti Blagojevich and her husband.
Personal greed is the reason some characters in Macbeth are corrupted. As soon as Macbeth, Banquo, and Lady Macbeth about Macbeth becoming thane of Cawdor and Glamis and eventually King. Banquo was disappointed so he asked “My noble partner/You greet with present grace and great prediction/ Of noble having and of royal hope,/That he seems rapt withal. To me you speak not./ If you can look into the seeds of time,/ And say which grain will grow and which will
He obviously wanted some good news for himself as well which leads to my point of personal greed. He couldn't stand that his friend was getting good news but he was not. After hearing the news they all knew what they had to do for Macbeth to be King. And the plan is that Macbeth will kill Duncan who is the king now. When Macbeth says “I have no spur/To prick the sides of my intent, but only/Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself/ And falls on the other—” (MB.1.7.25-28. when Macbeth is honest with himself, he admits that there's no good reason to kill Duncan, because Duncan is perfectly good at this whole king-business. Macbeth just wants that power for himself. This ties into personal greed he just wants the power for himself there is no any other good reason for killing him. And his wife Lady Macbeth pushes him to murder his king because she also wants the power of being queen when she says “Art thou