Macbeth

Question 1

“Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other”

Answer 1

Personification - his ambition , alike to a human force that can corrupt

“Fall” shows macbeths awareness that his ambition is his hamartia destined to lead him to his mental and physical decline

“Vaulting ambition” compares him to a jockey who is able to manage the untameable, Alsmot animalistic force , sled deceptive shows that he can control his own force

Question 2

“Sleep no more ! Macbeth dies murder sleep “

Answer 2

Motif of sleep , makes sleep synonymous with innocence , lack of sleep means he has a departure from innocence as he committed the regicide

Excalmitive sentence - emphasises during an irreversible nature of Beth‘s loss of innocence is disruption of the natural order through his wickedness has forever condemned his mind to relent his torment of guilt