Macbeth Themes Flashcards
1
Q
Ambition and power
A
I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself
And falls on th’other
2
Q
The supernatural
A
Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the top-full of direst cruelty
3
Q
Masculinity and femininity
A
I must also feel it as a man
4
Q
Appearance and reality
A
Fair is foul and foul is fair
5
Q
Fate and freewill
A
If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir
6
Q
Kingship and tyranny
A
His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls
