power/ambition/violence

Question 1

Let light not see my black and deep desires

Answer 1

(M)Act 1 Scene 4
Macbeth acknowledges the negativity and destructive ambition he contains

Question 2

art not without ambition

Answer 2

(LM) Act 1 Scene 5
Lady Macbeth questions Macbeths ambition

Question 3

When you durst do it, then you are a man

Answer 3

(LM) Act 1 Scene 7
Lady Macbeth emasculates Macbeth due to his lacking ambition in gaining the throne via killing Duncan

Question 4

only vaulting ambition

Answer 4

Act 1 Scene 7
Macbeth’s only reason for killing Duncan is his ambition

Question 5

Upon my head placed a fruitless crown

Answer 5

(M)Act 3 Scene 1
Macbeths ambition is threatened- Banquo’s son

Question 6

with barefaced power, sweep him from my sight

Answer 6

(M) act 3
Macbeth heartlessly speaks of Banquo

Question 7

we’ve scorched the snake, not killed it

Answer 7

(M)Act 3 Scene 2
Snake symbolises threats to his ambition and leadership

Question 8

oh full of scorpions is my mind

Answer 8

(M) Act 3 Scene 2
Macbeths hamartia is proved to be his ultimate hubris

Question 9

O wife, full of scorpions is my mind

Answer 9

(M) act 3
the psychological impact of Macbeths ambition becomes clear- the scorpions represent emotional torment that plagues him, illuminating a sense of regret

Question 10

his body safe in a ditch

Answer 10

(M) act 3
reference to banquo- seems inhumane, adress of the dangers of misplaced power. ‘safe’ seems ironic-

Question 11

blood will have blood

Answer 11

(M) Act 3
Macbeths paranoia grows as he realises the inevitable cycle of violence and retribution his actions have brought- Christian audience might associate with an eye for an eye

Question 12

give to the edge of my sword, his wife’s and babes

Answer 12

(M) act 4
Macbeths plan to kill lady MacDuff and her children highlights how he has been consumed by evil and ambition

Question 13

I’ll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hack’d

Answer 13

(M) Act 5 Scene 3
Macbeth instructs Seyton to get his armour, despite death approaching he is still ambitious

Question 14

I’ll not be afraid of death…Till Birnam wood come Dunsinane

Answer 14

(M) Act 5 Scene 3
His ambition caused by the prophecies have made him brave- reliance on witches

Question 15

She should have died here after

Answer 15

(M) Act 5 Scene 5
Macbeth discovers the news of his wife’s suicide- ambition and acts of violence have blinded and desensitized him