Theme: Ambition

Question 1

MacBeth quote to show his ambitions Act 1, Scene 4

Answer 1

“Black and deep desires”

Question 2

MacBeth quote on fulfilling his ambition, killing Duncan, influenced by the witches Act 1, Scene 3

Answer 2

“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”

Question 3

MacBeth quote to show his tragic flaw, his madness Act 2, Scene 1

Answer 3

“A dagger of the mind, a false creation”

Question 4

MacBeth quote on his ambition leading him to kill the king Act 1, Scene 7

Answer 4

“I have no spur / to prick the sides of my intent, but only / Vaulting ambition, which o’edleaps itself / And falls on the other”

Question 5

Ross quote suggesting Duncan’s kids murdered him, going against nature due to their ambitions Act 2, Scene 4

Answer 5

“Gainst nature still! / Thriftless ambition, that will ravin / Thine own lives’ means!”

Question 6

MacBeth justifying the results of his ambition Act 3, Scene 4

Answer 6

“For mine own good”

Question 7

Lady Macbeth quote on the ambition to act on her desires, at the same time doubting MacBeth Act 1, Scene 5

Answer 7

“Yet I do fear thy nature; / It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great / Art not without ambition, but without / The illness should attend it”

Question 8

Lady MacBeth shaming MacBeth into commiting murder Act 1, Scene 5

Answer 8

“Pour[s her] spirit into [his] ear”

Question 9

Quotes on MacBeth’s change of character and nobility due to his ambitions

Answer 9

“Brave Macbeth”, now a “butcher” and an “abhorred tyrant”