Macbeth-ambition

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In Act .....Scene.... what quote shows ambition?
in act 1 scene 5

"It is too full of the milk of human kindness"
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What language device is this?
metaphor
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This compares Macbeths nature to?
milk
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Milk is what?
femenine
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This shows how ?
Lady Macbeth
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Perceives?
Macbeth as feminine
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Milk is normally used to nur.....?
to nurture a child
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This was the expectation of?
women in the Jacobean era
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The colour white may also represent?
innocence and purity
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Also shows Lady Macbeths willingness to?
abandon her role as a woman
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What quote shows this?
"unsex me here"
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This all shows what theme?
ambition
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Milk also ______easily?
milk also spoils easily
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this may foreshadow?
the corruption of Macbeth
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In Act 1 scene 2 Macbeth was described as?
"valiant"
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In Act 5 Scene 9 Macbeth is described as a?
"butcher"
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Shakespeare is warning the audience of?
the dangers of ambition
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He conveys that everyone person should?
stay in their place
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And accept?
social hierarchy
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This relates to the?
Great Chain of Being
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In Act .....Scene..... what is another quote that shows ambition?
"not without ambition,but without the illness should attend it"
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What language device is this?
a metaphor
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The idea of illness is that it causes?
harm
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This may emphasise that Lady Macbeth knows?
the dangers that Macbeth may face
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That he may face when?
when or if he acts on his ambition
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The frequency of?
deaths
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During the?
Jacobean era
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May foreshadow?
Macbeths own death
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May also foreshadow her hope?
her hope to infect Macbeth
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Due to the fact that she know dangers of ambition this may suggest that Lady Macbeth has stopped?
feeling concern
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This destroys the?
stereotype of women
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Since an illness is?
contagious
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this may present_______as __________?
ambition as contagious
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Shakespeare wants to highlight the______?
dangers of ambition
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This reinforces the?
Great Chain of Being
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In Act ..... scene..... Macbeth states he has no...?

vaulting...
that he has no spur

Vaulting ambition oerleaps itself
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The language device used here is?
semantic field
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The semantic field of what?
equestrianism
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may indicate that Macbeth sees his ambition as?
a leaping horse
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The lack of spur may indicate a lack?
lack of control
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May also indicate the lack of control of?
ambition
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Macbeth sees his ambition?
falling
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This shows that he sees the dangers of?
aiming too high
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and being too?
ambitious
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This may foreshadow his own?
inevitable death
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In Act...scene...Macbeth states that "to be..."
in act 3 scene 1 Macbeth states

"to be thus is nothing , but to be safely thus"
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The ______"safely"
adverb
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emphasises how Macbeth does not?
feel safe as king
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His ambition was to?
get the throne
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But now he ?
wants more
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He now desires his?
heirs to take over
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This shows that Macbeths desires and ambition has?
grown
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And that they may never be?
satisfied
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Previously Macbeths ambition was sparked by?
witches or Lady Macbeth
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But now its is?
his own ambition
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Prophecy states that Banquos?
kids will be king
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yet Macbeth?
tries to stop it
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Shakespeare conveys the dangers of?
acting on ambition
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