Ambition

Question 1

What is macbeths hamartia

Answer 1

Too ambitious

Question 2

Why was his hamartia his ambition

Answer 2

As everyone’s roles were often already fixed - great chain of being
Monarchs were believed to be chosen by god

Question 3

Ambition in act 1 scene 3

Answer 3

“Why do i yield to that suggestion”
Yielding - tempted, being submissive to the suggestion

Question 4

Quotation that shows he wants to hide his desires

Answer 4

“Stars hide your fires/ let not light see my black and deep desires”

M wants to hide his ambitions because he knows they will involve dark deed

But his desires show how strongly he wants to be the kind

Question 5

Lady Macbeth’s ambition

Answer 5

“It’s too full o’the milk of human kindness”

Question 6

Quotation that shows Macbeth understand the consequences of his ambition

Answer 6

“Blood will have blood” act 3 scene 4
Regicide

Question 7

Quotation that shows M is giving in to the ambition

Answer 7

“To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus” (3.1)

giving in to his ambition and murdering Duncan has not brought him peace, but rather has just left him more paranoid and anxious.
Is still willing to continue killing until he is safe

Question 8

Quotation that shows Macbeth realises that his ambition has taken him too far

Answer 8

“I am in blood stepped in so far that, should I wade no more”
Ambition has taken him too far he cannot turn back now
His hamartia is his ambiton