Ambition

Question 1

Ambition
All quotes

Answer 1

‘restrain in me the cursed thoughts’
‘unsex me here’
‘of every sin that has a name’
‘angels are bright still, though the brightest fell’
‘I have begun to plant thee’

Question 2

Ambition
1st point and quotations

Answer 2

Banquo recognises danger of ambition ‘restrain in me the cursed thoughts’
imperatives, determination, astute, dismisses prophecies, contrasts Macbeth who considers murder

Question 3

Ambition
2nd point and quotations

Answer 3

LM is driven, desperate for power ‘unsex me here’ calls on spirits, risk for ambition, desire to remove feminine qualities and engage in masculine world of murder, ambitious, manipulative to achieve her vision of Queen

Question 4

Ambition
3rd point and quotations

Answer 4

Macbeth is driven by ambition, blind to the consequences, kills Duncan, the guards, Banquo, Macduff’s family, unjustified crimes regarded to be ‘of every sin that has a name’ against religion, malevolent, no end to his evil

Question 5

Ambition
4th point and quotations

Answer 5

Macbeth’s tyrannical attitude is recognised by all, referred to ‘angels are bright still, though the brightest fell’ metaphor, biblical allusion to Lucifer, foreshadows tragic downfall of the Promethean villain

Question 6

Ambition
5th point and quotations

Answer 6

Duncan shows a lack of ambition, content with looking after country ‘I have begun to plant thee’ extended metaphor, great gardener, well respected King, nurtures Scotland, opposite of Macbeth