The line “As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead,” in the above excerpt from act V scene 3 of Shakespeare's Macbeth tell the audience that Macbeth realizes his mistake and regrets his ambition.
Act V of the play Macbeth is the concluding act of the play which highlights the end of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, and their evil deeds. When Macbeth gets to know about Lady Macbeth’s unnatural death, he becomes numb. In great shock, he gives a speech in which he exerts about the uncertainty and unpredictability of death. Later he is informed by a servant that the Birnam Wood is moving towards Dunsinane. In despair, he shouts out loud at the servant but realizes that the prophecy of the witches is coming true. He realizes that in the run of attaining the kingdom he had fallen short of love, friends, and honor. His greed has left him alone. Though he thinks about the losses he had faced in his life, still he steps to the conclusion that he’ll fight until his death.
