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

Question 5

What does Lady Macbeth say in A1S5 to suggest how L Macbeth’s ambition for Macbeth is high?

Answer 5

greatest is behind

Question 6

What does Macbeth say to suggest that his ambition has lead to the death of Duncan?

Answer 6

Is that a dagger I see before me

Question 7

What does Macbeth in A3S4 to suggest how his ambition has meant he can no longer be good?

Answer 7

I am in blood stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more

Question 8

What does Macbeth say before the death of Duncan to suggest that his ambition battles his own moral self?

Answer 8

‘twere well it were done quickly

Question 9

What does Lady Macbeth ask Macbeth to do in A1S5 so that he can hide his own deep ambition and true self?

Answer 9

Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t

Question 10

How is ambition presented in the play?

Answer 10

1. Consequence of ambition
2. Drives the characters
3. Macbeth’s overall ambition