Macbeth Quotes For Ambition Flashcards
“Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires.” - Act 1 Scene 4
Macbeth is shown to want to hide his dark feelings and he wants his secret desire for the throne to be covered in darkness. As he wants to cover the fact that he is willing to do anything to achieve his ambition of becoming king. “Stars hide your fires” Macbeth wants the darkness to shroud him. He does not want anyone to see what he plans to do next. Not even the stars. Macbeth asks stars to give him darkness to cover his “black and deep desires.”
“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself and falls on the th’other.” - Act 1 scene 7
Metaphor for ambition. Macbeth described his lack of motivation and the fact that the only thing driving him at the moment is his ambition of wanting to be king.
