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Macbeth is not a greedy man. He does not want more and more and more. Of course he wants to be king, but what's wrong with that? He is closely related to the king so he is entitled to want it--we don't call Malcolm greedy when he wants to be king. And if he hadn't been pushed hard by his wife, he would have been quite satisfied to stay being Thane of Cawdor. Does Macbeth steal other people's belongings? No. Does he spend the national treasury on himself? No. You might ask why he wanted to kill Banquo just to prevent Banquo's heirs from being kings. But even so that would not guarantee that Macbeth's children (who are conspicuous by their absence in the play) would succeed. His reason for killing Banquo is not greed but trying to prove that he has free will. He wants to prove that the witches can be wrong.

The desperate desire to go along with the conventional wisdom that in some strange way Macbeth is greedy or ambitious has some bizarre results. Some even say that Macbeth thinks he is immortal which shows how greedy he is. Since when does greed have anything to do with believing yourself to be immortal? (Not that Macbeth believes that he is immortal--only invincible.)

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