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• AMBITION QUOTES FROM MACBETH FULL

1)| Macduff’s only ambition is to kill Macbeth, the man who has murdered his wife and children. Let me find him, Fortune! And more I beg not. There thou shouldst be By this great clatter, one of greatest note Seems bruited. According to Macbeth, he’s got to look out for his own best interests.Įither thou, Macbeth, Or else my sword, with an unbatter’d edge, I sheathe again undeeded. ” By this point, Macbeth is willing to anything in order to help himself and it’s becomes easier for him to commit evil deeds. 24)| By comparing his heinous actions to wading through a bloody river, Macbeth suggests that once a man commits a murderous act for his own gain, it’s impossible to stop. I am in blood Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er. Of course, we know that Macbeth (with some encouragement from his wife) does murder Duncan.įor mine own good All causes shall give way. This is not enough to justify the act of killing a king, which is why he resolves to not go through with it after this speech. 1)| As Macbeth deliberates, he realizes that “vaulting ambition” is all that compels him to the heinous act of murdering Duncan and that his intent is nothing but personal gain. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself And falls on the other. ” The problem, as Lady Macbeth sees it, is that her husband is too “kind” to do what’s necessary to achieve “greatness. Macbeth, she says, is certainly not without “ambition. In her mind, Macbeth must take action if he is to become king.

The illness should attend it.” (I.v., 2-5).Īfter reading the letter from her husband (which recounts the witches’ prophesy), Lady Macbeth’s thoughts immediately turn to murder. To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great,

AMBITION QUOTES FROM MACBETH FULL

It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness Here, ambition is portrayed as something dark and ugly. He knows that killing Duncan in order to become king is wrong, which is why he says it’s necessary to hide his “black and deep” desires. (1.4.4)īy the time Malcolm is proclaimed Prince of Cumberland and heir to the throne of Scotland, Macbeth is willing to push all morality aside. Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. Let not light see my black and deep desires. On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap,įor in my way it lies. Could it be that the witches’ prophesy awakens within Macbeth a murderous ambition that was there all along?” 9)Īfter the weird sisters predict that Macbeth will be king, his thoughts turn to “murder,” which the sisters have said nothing about. My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smother’d in surmise, and nothing is But what is not.(1.