Ambition

Question 1

Act 1, Scene 3

Answer 1

Look, how our partner’s rapt

Two truths are told/As happy prologues to the swelling act
alternative interpretations

Question 2

Act 1, Scene 5

Answer 2

Art not without ambition but the illness should attend it

Question 3

Act 1, Scene 7

Answer 3

Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would”, like the poor cat i’ the adage

I have no spur/To prick the sides of my intent,but only/Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself/And falls on the other

Question 4

Act 3, Scene 1

Answer 4

Thou hast it now, king, Cawdor, Glamis, all/As the weird women promised, and, I fear/Thou play’dst most foully for’t

Question 5

Act 5, Scene 5

Answer 5

Out, out, brief candle!/Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player