Ambition Quotes

Question 1

The witches are saying Macbeths titles and titles he will have in the future

Answer 1

‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis.’
‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor.’
‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, that shalt be king hereafter

Question 2

Banquo’s prophecy

Answer 2

Lesser than MacBeth, and greater.’
‘Not so happy, yet much happier.’
‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none

Question 3

Macbeth is waiting for fate to make him king

Answer 3

‘If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me Without my stir

Question 4

Macbeth learns that Malcom is heir to the throne and must overcome him

Answer 4

Aside) ‘The Prince of Cumberland: that is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap

Question 5

Macbeth is telling something in the sky to not see his deep thoughts

Answer 5

Aside) ‘Stars, hide your fires,
Let light not see my black and deep desires

Question 6

Lady Macbeth is saying how something is full of kindness

Answer 6

yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way

Question 7

Lady macbeth is telling that you need ambition

Answer 7

thou wouldst be great;
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it

Question 8

Lady Macbeth is manipulating

Answer 8

‘I may pour my spirits in thine ear; and chastise with the valour of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round

Question 9

Lady Macbeth wants to be less like a women and more like a man and is calling on something

Answer 9

Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty!

Question 10

Macbeth is describing is lack of motivation

Answer 10

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