Ambition and Power Quotes Flashcards
(12 cards)
Banquo’s curiosity of the witches prophecies
“If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not” (Act 1, Scene 3)
Macbeth’s fascination and distrust of the witches
“Stay you imperfect speakers. Tell me more.” (Act 1, Scene 3)
through Duncan’s intention to nurture Macbeth
“I have begun to plant thee and will labour To make thee full of growing” (Act 1, Scene 4)
as Macbeth evaluates how to inherit the throne
“The Prince of Cumberland: that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap, For in my way it lies” (Act 1, Scene 4)
through Macbeth’s lack of evil but ambitious personality
“Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it” (Act 1, Scene 5)
as destructive
“Thriftless ambition that will ravin up Thine own life’s means” (Act 2, Scene 4)
through Macbeth’s fears of Banquo’s influence on his ambition
“under him My genius is rebuk’d, as it is said Mark Antony’s was by Caesar” (Act 3, Scene 1)
through Macbeth’s jealousy and dangerous envy of Banquo
“They hail’d him father to a line of kings. Upon my head they plac’d a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe” (Act 3, Scene 1)
through Macbeth’s willingness to fight against his fate
“Rather than so, come Fate into the list, And champion me to th’utterance” (Act 3, Scene 1)
by Macbeth’s normalisation of violence
“Come, We’ll to sleep. My strange and self-abuse Is the initiate fear that wants hard use; We are yet but young in deed” (Act 3, Scene 4)
through Macbeth’s horror at the witches apparitions
“And yet the eighth appears, who bears a glass Which shows me many more. And some I see, That two-fold balls and treble sceptres carry” (Act 4, Scene 1)
Macduff’s ambition to murder Macbeth to avenge his family
“Tyrant, show thy face! If thou be’st slain, and with no stroke of mine, My wife and children’s ghosts will haunt me still” (Act 5, Scene 7)
