Ambition

Question 1

What does Macbeth say in A1S3 to show he is already thinking of the third prophecy?

Answer 1

Two truths are told
As happy prologues to the swelling act

Question 2

What does Lady Macbeth say in A1S5 to show how she believes Macbeth can be more?

Answer 2

Thou wouldst be great
Art not without ambition,

Question 3

What does Macbeth say in A1S7 to show how he is having higher ambitions?

Answer 3

Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself

Question 4

What does Macbeth say in A3S1 to show how his ambition has brought him nowhere?

Answer 4

To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus