Ambition Flashcards
Macbeth ambition quote.
If …. Will have me … king, why, chance ….. crown me without a …..
What does this quote show?
If chance will have me king , why, chance may crown me without a stir.
Shows that Macbeth is ambitious but he is not yet ready to kill.
What is macbeths tragic downfall shown through ?
What quote does the eventual paranoia and fear link to?
Macbeths tragic downfall is charted through ambition driving an escalating series of murders which drive him to paranoia and fear.
‘O full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife’
Macbeth ambition quote ..
‘ Oerleap for … … … … ….’
What imagery does it evoke and What does this suggest?
Oerleap for in my way it lies.
The imagery of obstruction suggests he sees Malcom and Duncan as obstacles.
Macbeth ambition quotation.
I have no spur to … the …. Of my …
What does this quote mean?
What does the ambition act like?
‘I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent’
He lacks justifiable reason to murder the king, other than his own unchecked ambition.
The ambition acts like spurs on a horse, driving him recklessly in the pursuit of power.
What is Macbeth’s hamartia (fatal flaw)?
Why did Shakespearean plays often have fatal flaws?
His ambition.
Because they based on Greek plays.
2 quotations that show Macbeth is going too far?
-‘ we’d jump the life to come’
-‘vaulting ambition which oerleaps itself ‘
Quote to show Macbeth’s ambition has made him sick?
‘ o full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife’
Macbeth amibitionquote
‘Hide your …. ; let not light see my …. and …. desires’
What does he mean through this quote?
How is this quote differnt to
‘Hide your fires ; let not light see my black and deep desires’
He wants the stars to go dark so no one can see his disloyal desire to be king.
Lady Macbeth ambition
Come you …. That tend on ….. thoughts , …. Me here.
What does this show about how she feels?
What imperative verb does she use?
Who’s she developed ambition before
Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts.
She’s frustrated of her femininity.
She is ambitious because she is using imperative verb ‘unsex’ to command the witches to change her gender.
She’s developed ambition before Macbeth.
Who says it
When you …. Do it, then you were a ….
Where’s the alliteration?
How does it relate to the theme of ambition?2 ways
When you durst do it, then you were a man.
alliteration of durst do attacking his manhood .
Lady Macbeth sees ambition of a sign of power and strength.
Her ambition has corrupted her, she will do anything to be queen even use her own husband.
Macbeth ambition quotes?
-hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires
-vaulting ambition which oerleaps itself
-o full of scorpions is my mind dear wide
- I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent
-we’d jump the life to come
If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me without a stir.
Lady Macbeth ambition quotes
When you durst do it,then you were a man
Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here
Thesis statement for ambition?
In Macbeth we are invited to see ambition as throughout the text Shakespeare repedetly presents ambition as having sick connotations tied to it. Arguably Shakespeare’s intention was to deter people being ambitious, we know it was seen as a negative trait in the Jacobean area
