NameProfessorCourse/SubjectDatePart One Question Number 1Patient waiting will not be effective for Macbeth is not the rightful successor to the throne. Macbeth is only general and not a prince. He is not the rightful heir to the throne. As a general, he can only take the throne by force because he does not have the blood line to be kingADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "URL" : "http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/full.html", "accessed" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2013", "5", "15" ] ] }, "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Shakespeare", "given" : "William", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "0" ] ] }, "title" : "Macbeth", "type" : "webpage" }, "uris" : [ "http://www.mendeley.com/documents/?uuid=585ccbfe-6174-48e9-8303-da466e59fd6a" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Shakespeare)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Shakespeare). There is however a remote possibility for him to be king if he just waited. But the possibility is very remote. In view of his consuming ambition to be king, powered by the prophecy of the witches, and the urgings of his equally ambitious wife, Macbeth was confronted with temptation so great and irresistible he will do anything to usurp the kingdom.If we are to consider the context wherein Shakespeare wrote Macbeth, it was a time when the world was still reeling from the Dark Ages where war, power and ambition reign supreme in the monarchy. He was not likely to write on a theme where the hero would be a model of patient merit because that was not the order of the day. In short, this kind of theme would have been unpopular. Shakespeare`s Macbeth reflects the ethos of his time where his choice of theme and plot would cater to the imaginations of the population. Many would learn great lessons from a story of vaulting ambition and the tragedy of character and the moral order as seen in Macbeth.In other words, Shakespeare is teaching the audience by negative example wherein the original hero becomes a villain and how this ambition would eventually eat Macbeth from within. In the character of Macbeth, Shakespeare was able to illustrate the evolution of a war hero into a ruthless criminal as a result of his ambition. Thus Macbeth, once brave and righteous, becomes a greedy paranoid who is willing to kill anyone who would threaten his ambition. In this sense, Shakespeare was more effective in conveying his message to the audience and in a sense providing a critique for the political system of his time. If Shakespeare would have simply made Macbeth a hero who patiently waited for the throne to fall on a silver platter, then the whole plot would be dull and boring. Thus it became necessary for Shakespeare to illustrate how the evil of ambition can slowly grow inside a man`s hea...