macbeth - ambition quotations
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- Macbeth - Ambition quotations.
- Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
- Macbeth has no real reason to kill Duncan other than his ambition to become king.
- an intense desire for power. leads to his own downfall.
- the driving force behind Macbeths plot is his own ambition, encouraging to make deadly deeds
- "Let not light see my black and deep desires."
- "black" his desires are dark and deadly, his ambition has awoken these deadly desires.
- "deep" these desires are deep in his mind, embedded there, until he has what he craves - power.
- his desires have been deep in the back of his mind but now that the witches have given him ambition it has awoken them. he now dares to go after the crown..
- doesn't want his desires to come into the light for people to see - he knows they're wrong.
- "Let me find him, Fortune,And more I beg not."
- Macduff uses ambition for the right reason, to get revenge.
- Macduff wants to avenge his wifes and childrens death
- Macduff is the 'bloody child' which the witches spoke of, so can harm Macbeth.
- Macduff is ambitious towards the justice for his family, he is so powered by this that he kills Macbeth
- "if chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me without my stir"
- Macbeth is ambitious that he will become king
- "without my stir", meaning he will become king without him having to do anything.
- he's referring to the weird sisters' prediction that he will be king. He figures that becoming king is his destiny
- the three witches prophesies are what create or push forward Macbeth ambition and cause him to commit foul deeds
- Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
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