macbeth quotes

Question 1

ambition, violence

Answer 1

“vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself and falls on th’ other” - act 1

Question 2

guilt, ambition, violence

Answer 2

“i heard a voice cry ‘sleep no more! macbeth does murder sleep’ “

Question 3

“vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself and falls on th’ other” - act 1

Answer 3

ambition, violence

Question 4

“i heard a voice cry ‘sleep no more! macbeth does murder sleep’ “

Answer 4

guilt, ambition, violence

Question 5

“vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself and falls on th’ other” - act 1

Answer 5

personification of ambition alike to a human force to corrupt his formerly innocent mind
“fall” shows macbeth’s awareness of his hamartia
metaphor of “vaulting ambition” draws a parallel between him and a jockey

Question 6

“i heard a voice cry ‘sleep no more! macbeth does murder sleep’ “

Answer 6

motif of sleep = innocence, loss of sleep = loss of innocence
compare: went from imperative commands like “starts hide your fires” to troubled mind and is haunted by “cries”
exclamative sentence emphasises irreversible guilt