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Ambition In Macbeth
Lady Macbeth's Ambition
"Unsex me here"
Her praying to be "unsexed" shows her ambition and the lengths she will go to in order to achieve power, Shows a negative stance on womanhood
“Look like th'innocent flower, But be the serpent under't”
Flower- WOMAN,VIRGINITY,INNOCENCE
Snakes are sneaky
Represents sin, Adam and eve
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Babyless woman with little power and influence- Macbeth coming king was as much about her own power and ambition as his
Ideologies about womanhood, Female power
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Lady Macbeth - Questions Macbeth's masculinity in the play, catalysing his ambition as it makes him want to prove her wrong, she wants him to be diminished so that can overpower him and cause this catalytic event in the plays narrative. This links to gender and how toxic masculinity is utilised in the play.
The GCOB - When the great chain of being is disrupted by the regicidal acts of Macbeth the world as the Macbeth's know it descends into utter chaos. This disruption allows for the audience to understand that their king, James 1st, was rightfully there.
The king was put on the throne by god and it was against the natural order of things to depose one. Divine right/great chain of being
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The use of light and dark in more than one instance of the play reflects the ambition that both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth share. "Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires" Macbeth says this before he goes to kill Duncan. The first part of the quote is personification of the stars, telling them to not look at him and what he is about to do. We can add connotations to heaven in this quote, as both the Macbeth's are religious, therefore asking light to hide away because, despite this, they both still wish to get into heaven.
Macbeth - His ambition is his downfall, known as hamartia. Macbeth's ambition is the catalyst for the events of the play as a whole and could be seen as a very integral part of the narrative. Macbeth's ambition based hamartia causes the rest of the events in the play as his ambition allows him to commit Duncan's regicide and his other murderous acts after that. However Macbeth's ambition is boosted by Lady Macbeth's power and ambition in the play.
Lady Macbeth - come thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell
Light And Dark Quotations - "Let not light see my black and deep desires." "Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see." "Pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell." "That my keen knife see not the wound it makes." "Nor heaven peep through the blanket of dark."
Power: Macbeth's ambition grows as the play goes on, and so does his power - which ultimately fuels him into becoming more and more unhinged as the play progresses. Macbeth ends up being hungry for power as soon as he hears from the witches that he will be king - this causes his ambition to sky rocket as he climbs himself higher and higher up the hierarchy system. It'd directly proportional; as one does up so does the other.
Great Chain of Being: the idea that God chooses the kings and queens of the world, and if that chain is disrupted then the world would descend into chaos. James the First of England was somewhat an inspiration to the writing of Macbeth - as this was a way for Shakespeare to show his support for the King. An example of people trying to disrupt the chain was the Gunpowder plot.
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