Ambition

Question 1

Describe Macbeths guilt

Answer 1

Focused on murder
=expresses remorse directly before and after he kills Duncan
= after his guilt comes from paranoia
= sends him on a frenzied miser spree
= suggests guilt and conscience are more powerful than ambition

Question 2

Quote for banquos ambition

Answer 2

“ restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature gives way to”
“ royalty of nature”
= needs to be seen as good as he’s related to James the first

Question 3

What’s macbeths hermarta

Answer 3

Ambition

Question 4

How is paranoia portrayed

Answer 4

As poison that is relentless and inescapable
= Macbeth loses all heroic qualities due to his fears and descends to madness

Question 5

Quote to prove macbeths ambition is punished

Answer 5

“ put rancours in the vessel of my peace”
= metaphor
= his guilt and paranoia has polluted his soul
“ full of scorpions is my mind”
= similar imagery
= present paranoia as infinite, small things