How far should you go to get exactly what you want? William Shakespeare's play, “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” was based on a character's ambition to become king and gain power. Macbeth wanted to gain power so much that he decided to do anything to get exactly what he wanted, regardless of the circumstances. Macbeth transformed from a war hero to a murderer. His weakened character and his own ambition drove Macbeth's madness. Macbeth's psychosis brought out a weakness of character and his ambition led to murder and an inability to let fate take its natural course. Many things can cause madness in a character. However, the cause of Macbeth's psychosis is the ambition to become king and the weakness of his character. In Macbeth's psychological state of mind begins to deteriorate from his strong and ambitious outlook to the decline of murderous plans. In Harold C. Goddard's book “The Meaning of Shakespeare” he says: “We do not expect to be tempted to kill; but we know what it means to have a divided soul” (Goddards 496). The author of Macbeth, William Shakespeare, introduces Macbeth as having a divided soul. The concept of morality and mortality will be the catalyst for the moral decline of Macbeth's unethical behavior. Macbeth begins the division between right and wrong, good and bad, and being forgiven and wanting forgiveness. Harold C Goddards says in his book “But bloody thoughts are the seed of bloody deeds”. (Goddards 496) With this quote Macbeth was driven to commit murder because “In The Meaning of Shakespeare” the book says “Passion originally means the ability to be influenced by external agencies” (Goddards 494). Wayne C. Booth, “The Tragedies of Shakespeare,” Shakespeare says, “take a noble man, full of conscience and the milk of human kindness, and make him a dead butcher” (Booth). Macbeth torn by his conscience, his guilt and his responsibility, motivated by his deviant actions, was agitated in his inner spirit, resulting in compromising his own ethnic behavior. Macbeth had completely lost his mind because his morals had completely deteriorated and Macbeth committed murder without thinking twice. In “Guilt in Macbeth” author Cassandra Nelson says “The night Duncan is killed, the stars hide from sight. But it is an unnatural darkness, a sign that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have upset the natural order of things” (Nelson). Also in Susan Synder's book “Theology as Tragedy in Macbeth” we read “When Macbeth kills his relative and guest by violating his sacred “double trust”, the natural world reacts violently with storms, earthquakes, unnatural events