Ambition Flashcards
Types of ambition
Ambition for power and control (social and political)
= Ferdinand, cardinal and Satan
Ambition for personal fulfilment / knowledge
= the duchess and eve
Ambition for legacy
= Adam and the duchess
Ambition of transcending given roles / spiritual ascendancy
= bosola, Satan / cardinal, sin and death
Ambition for revenge
= bosola and Satan
Webster context for ambition
Class systems
Catholicism
Gender roles
Milton context for ambition
Civil war
Gender
Religion
“…poison’t near the head…”
“…death and disease through the whole land spread”
Antonio
“Ambition madam…”
“…is a great man’s madness”
Antonio
“I think the devil, that rules …”
“…i’th’air stands in your light”
Antonio to bosola
“The devil takes…”
“…away my heart”
Cardinal
“Whether we fall by…”
“…ambition, blood or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust”
Ferdinand
“A thing that makes man…”
“…so deformed”
Cardinal
“I look no higher…”
“…than i can reach”
Bosola
“Like plum trees…”
“…that grow crooked over standing pools”
Bosola
“Bent on…”
“…man’s destruction”
“The serpent…”
“…subtlest beast of all the field”
“Mastering…”
“…heaven supreme”
“Others to make…”
“…such as I”
“One day to have marred…”
“…what he Almighty styled”
“Dark intent…”
“…i bring”
“Let us…”
“…divide our labours”
“What fear i then…of”
“…God or death, of law or penalty?”
“This fruit divine … ….”
“…inviting to the taste”
“She plucked…”
“…she ate”
“Godhead…”
“…from her thought”
“Greedily she…”
“…engorged”
“I grow mature…”
“…in knowledge”
“My…”
“…power”
“Render me…”
“…more equal”
“For inferior…”
“…who is free?”
“Methinks I feel…”
“…new strength within me rise”
Sin
“So strongly drawn by this…”
“…new felt attraction and instinct”
Sin
“The savour of death…”
“…from all things there that live”
Death
Greenlaw on satan
Satan mastered by “unworthy ambition and lust for power”
Waldock on Eve
“In her conduct…there is a measure of stupidity”
Hart on F+C
The brothers are driven by “a delight in malice”
