Theof 'sin Act
3, Scene 1, is that he has achieved his goal of becoming king, and now that he has the crown, he
receives no pleasure from it.begins his soliloquy by saying, "To be thus is nothing; But to
be safely thus." He's signaling here that rather than appreciate the crown, he is going to
worry about the events that might possibly be able to strip him of it. This line is also ironic
when one considers 's murder. He was king and unsafeand now that Macbeth is king, it is ironic
he has not considered he himself will be vulnerable, particularly in light of the fact that he
is the one who killed Duncan.
Macbeth killed Duncan in order to become king.
He ascends to the throne almost immediately after Duncan's death. Instead of focusing on running
the kingdom and gaining the loyalty of the thanes, he becomes paranoid that he will lose
everything he just gained. It is ironic that his life's ambition, once achieved, gives him no
pleasure.
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