ambition

Question 1

Thou wouldst be great art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend to it

Answer 1

lady macbeth reflects on her husband’s character and shows her philosophy of power. that only individuals who are willing to set their morality aside will rise to greatness

Question 2

I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which overleaps itself

Answer 2

macbeth starts to doubt his plan to kill duncan, since it is only his ambition that is pushing him to commit the act

Question 3

My thought, whose murder is yet fantastical, shakes so my single state of man that function is smothered in surmise

Answer 3

macbeth realises that the path to the crown will require violence, and that he feels uncomfortable with the evil thoughts that are slowly filling his head

Question 4

if chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me without my stir

Answer 4

macbeth believes in destiny and fate and that the witches prophecy will create a situation for him to become king without trying (he relys on fate)

Question 5

to be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus

Answer 5

macbeth finds it meaningless to be king, and how murdering duncan didn’t bring him peace but just paranoia and anxiety

Question 6

we still have judgement here… this