AMBITION Flashcards
Blind ambition compels Macbeth to see what he wants to see
rather than what is actually before him
Macbeths ruthless lust for power is addictive and
ultimately self destructive
Macbeths ambition increasingly
isolates him and leads to paranoia
Banquo is an antithetical foil to Macbeth: his loyalty and resolve highlight
Macbeths and Lady Macbeths ‘vaulting ambition’
only, vaulting ambition, which
o’erleaps itself, and falls on the other
Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,
I cannot taint with fear
Then fly, false thanes,
and mingle with the English epicures
Thou wast born of woman, But swords i smile at, weapons laugh to
scorn, Brandished by man thats of a woman born
I am in blood, Stepped in so far that, should i wade
no more, returning were so tedious as go o’er
Out, Out,
Brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow
These terrible dreams,
That shake us nightly
That which should accompany old age, As honour,
love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which
grain will grow and which will not
I lose none, In seeking to augment it, but still
keep my bosom franchised and allegiance clear
Our fears in
Banquo stick deep
