Ambition Flashcards
1
Q
The witches tell Macbeth their prophecy
A
‘All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter’
2
Q
Macbeth begins to think about killing Duncan
A
‘If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me without my stir’
‘Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires’
‘Vaulting ambition’
‘Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair’
3
Q
Macbeth considers his position as king
A
‘To be thus is nothing but to be safely thus’
4
Q
Macbeths moral battle with ambition
A
‘My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, shakes so my single state of man’
5
Q
Macbeth realises is ambition is too strong he will lose everything
A
‘O’erleaos itself and falls on th’ other’
