center if you are king and still expect to be a king in the truest sense of the word. The second time Shakespeare uses the word slave in Macbeth is when Banquo yells to his some Fleance, Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! Thou mayst revenge. O slave!(III.iii.16). In this use of the word, the reader is meant to think that Banquo is talking to Macbeth. After he tells his son to get revenge (on Macbeth no doubt), he yells O slave! as a way of saying, you slave of ambition, I cant believe I trusted you. Banquo knows that he has made a mistake by trusting Macbeth. All of his sleepless nights and hunches were right; Macbeth has done the evil deed of killing Duncan his king. Therefore we can see Banquo as a slave as well, a slave of his own trust for an over ambitious friend.The third use of slave comes to the reader in a very sarcastic speech given by Lennox to a Lord (III.vi.13). Lennox calls the two guards of Duncans chamber on the night of his death the slaves of drink and the thralls of sleep(III.vi.13). At first glance, it seems as if Lennox is condemning the two guards for supposedly killing Duncan. But when read in the context of the entire speech, Lennox is actually saying that the two guards were too drunk and asleep to have killed their king. Furthermore, he finds it odd how Macbeth killed the only two men who could say anything about what went on that night. Thus we are meant to see Macbeth as a slave to ambition, which makes good sense, for he killed Duncan, Banquo, and is striving to kill Malcolm, Donalbain, and Fleance. Therefore, if Macbeth is a slave to ambition he will not be able to be a good king, which we see in the Lords response to this speech. He tells the reader that the kingdom does not have mean on its table or sleep at night. This proves to the reader how Macbeths ambition has caused him to focus on his own personal gain instead of focusing on what he should, his kingdom. Therefore, the fall of Macbeth...
