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These words also foreshadow an early step on Macbeth's journey towards his consuming, ruthless villainy catalysed by ambition. "Thou wouldst be great, art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it"
Macbeth quotes- Ambition. Macbeth imagines his current titles as prologues to his mighty drama on kinship. Click the card to flip 👆. "Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act".
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Macbeth, Act 3, Scene 1. Macbeth is determined not to allow Banquo’s heirs becomes kings of Scotland, as the Witches prophesied. So he challenges fate to take him on in a battle to the death as the brave champion knight he imagines himself to be. This shows Macbeth’s determination and ambition.
Ambition Quotes. Macbeth speaks these lines as he realizes that the witches’ prophecy (that he will be Thane of Cawdor) has come true. He immediately starts to wonder whether this means that their third prophecy (that he will become king) will also be true.
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30 lis 2018 · Explore the meaning of these dramatic quotes from Macbeth, which explore timely themes of illusion, ambition, guilt, and remorse.
