Act one- Theme: Ambition

Theme:

Ambition--

Scene one : None

Scene two:

“Norway himself, with terrible numbers,

Assisted by that most disloyal traitor”

This quote shows the ambition of the Thane of Cawdor. He wanted to win so badly that he betrayed his King and his country, which in the end, ended up beckfiring on him…

Scence three:

“And say which grain will grow and which will not,

Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear”

This quote shows Banquos ambition. He wants to have the same predictions of royalty and wealth as Macbeth. He is slightly jealous that Macbeth was greeted with such predictions and he doesn’t know what his futur is. He’s hoping that he will have similar fate: he’s not afraid.

“If chance will have me King, why,

chance may crown”

He wants to be King but he doesn’t want to work for it

“My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical”

He wants to succeed everything that the witches have predicted but he knows there are going to be obstacles to stop him… willing to keep working for the objectives yet aware that people need to die

Scene 4: None

Scene 5:

“Art not without ambition, but without

the illness should attend it”

Lady Macbeth just figured out the predictions of Macbeth and is saying that he has the ambition to acheive everything but is missing the wickedness, cruelty to make things happen

Scene 6: None

Scene 7:

“I have no spur

to prick the sides of my intent, but only

vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself

And falls on th’ other”

Macbeth is saying that he has too much ambition and he thinks it’s going to come back and bite him afterwards as a consequence.