Ambition Flashcards
If chance will have me King,why chance may crown me without my stir.
Macbeth places his previous thoughts aside and hopes to be crowned King without interference
chance - he doesnt want to affect fate , repetion
- Jacobeans belived in fate and destiny and that your life was already planned out and you cannot do anything
-Divine right of Kings
Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires
Rhyiming, perhaps influenced by the witches
“black, deep, desires” alliteration of the d, shows his awareness that he is doing something bad
Macbeth calls on darkness (evil) to hide his sins from “heaven/good”
my dearest partner of greatness
dearest-term of endaerment, shows that they have a bond
Partner- L Macbeth sees them as equals, which breaks the rules of Jacobean era
Greatness - Refrences their powerful ambition and foreshadows their achivement ( killing Duncan)
Yet I do fear thy nature, it is too full o’th’milk of human kindness
L Macbeth thinks that Macbeth is too innocent and kind to commit such a sin and attacks his manliness
Milk- symbolizes innocence and purity, is used to raise babies
L Macbeth views kindness as a weakness, which is ironic
-Jacobean women were meant to be ……
I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itseld and falls on th’other
Our fears in Banquo stick deep, and in his royalty of nature
“Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding”
