ambition

Question 1

• light and dark imagery

Answer 1

‘Stars, hide your fires, Let not light see my black and deep desires’

Question 2

• riding metaphor
• nothing else motivating him other than ambition
• ambition is erratic
• overestimating the jump and falls down
• spur is a sharp object for horses to move but he doesnt have it so his personality carries out the murder
• vaulting means jumping or leaping, adding motion to ambition as erratic
• forebodes macbeth downfall

Answer 2

‘I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself And falls on th’other’

Question 3

• fricatives
• epitomises his uncertainty about what happened behind the scenes

Answer 3

Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, As the weird women promis’d, and I fear Thou played’st most foully for’t’

Question 4

• heart = soul
• hand = action
• impulsiveness and erratic behaviour, contrasts to A1 where did he ponder
• due to personal emotions
• killing neither for political gain nor to silece an enemy, but simply out of a furious desire to do harm

Answer 4

‘The very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand’

Question 5

• a noble loyal to the king is engaging with the devils
• it is a sin to want to be king -> treason
• inquiring information would be a red flag
• ambition triggered, doesn’t dismiss them

Answer 5

‘Stay, you imperfect speakers. Tell me more.’
‘Speak, I charge you.’

Question 6

• malcolm says
• tyrant
• butcher = ruthless killer
• fiend like dehumanize
• reminds of his hamartia

Answer 6

‘this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen’