Ambition

Question 1

Act 1, scene 5

Answer 1

‘I may pour my spirits in thine ear’
‘And chastise with the valour of my tongue’
‘Unsex me here’
‘come to my woman’s breasts and take my milk for gall’
chastise means to punish
valour means bravery

Question 2

act 3, scene 1

Answer 2

‘i will put that business in your bosoms’
‘know Banquo was your enemy’
‘thy soul’s flight, if it find heaven, must find it out to-night’

Question 3

act 4, scene 3

Answer 3

‘let us make medicines of our great revenge’
‘let grief convert to anger’
‘macbeth is ripe for shaking’ (macbeth is like a fruit on a tree, ready to be removed)

Question 4

act 1 scene 7

Answer 4

‘vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other’