Ambition in Macbeth
- Created by: cristelle_bae
- Created on: 28-10-19 18:02
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- Ambition
- Key Moments
- 1.3: Witches plant the seeds of ambition in Macbeth's mind
- 1.5- Lady Macbeth fears that Macbeth doesn't have ruthless ambition
- 1.7- Lady Macbeth gives Macbeth the final push to achieve his ambitions
- 3.1-3.2: Macbeth's ambition leads to the murder of Banquo
- Key Quotes
- 1.5- LM: 'Unsex me here'
- 1.5- LM: 'Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it'
- 1.7- MAC: 'I have no spur to ***** the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition'
- 3.1-MAC: 'our fears in Banquo stick deep... under him my genius is rebuked'
- 3.2- MAC: 'we have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it'
- 3.2- MAC: 'O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!'
- Key Context
- Ambition is the fatal flaw of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth
- A fatal flaw is also known as a hamartia
- This hamartia of ambition is the downfall of lady macbeth and Macbeth
- shakespeare may be using this hamartia to show the negative effects of too much ambition of people
- Key Moments
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