Macbeth

• I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, only vaulting ambition

  (O'erleaps itself)ACT 1 SCENE 7


  Macbeths fatal all consuming hamartia of ambition is yet the only "spur" pricking the drive of his regicide, the vaulting image of a striding horse reflects the formidable sway to non virtuous acts. His intent is almost toyed with and pricked to the point of blind anger and animalistic response to act apon it, similar to the horse. he recognises later in his soliloquey that it overleaps itself, the failure in its stride presents an awareness of his own blind sentence to failure.
• Is this a dagger which I see before me? SCENE 2 ACT 1


  An insane manifesto in Macbeth's mind in the shape of physical form he believes he could almost grab, its elucidating violence in its form of a dagger is an obvious intrusion of Macbeths drive to regicide and brewing violence, foreboding the murder. The idea of a dead Duncan is so consuming its branched and intertwined itself into not only Macbeths consciousness, but subconsciousness. The soliloquey shows the duality of his morals overcome with the recklessness of insanity and immoral conscience, his pathway to supress
• Is this a dagger which I see before me? SCENE 2 ACT 1 pt2


  the power hungry ambition with triumph shows the total lack and inadequacy of logical thinking.
• Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse the curtain of sleep ACT 2 SCENE 1


  Natural order is being supressed in the context of society and The Great Chain of Being in which even the divine right of kings is challenged by the consuming ambition of Macbeths hamartia. Its off balance that sways the scales of order is concerning, its tumoltuous domino effect on the neutrality of peace is foreboding of future demise and violent restoration. Thus the violence of macbeths sin must be matched in violence of "good" against him, linking to a later on decapitated Macbeth.
• Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse the curtain of sleep ACT 2 SCENE 1 PT2


  The irony of his own abuse to Duncans curtain of sleep when in actuality it ends in macbeths own sleepless spiral to utter unredeemable consequence is pleasing. Deception of his own plans to his own demise is hinted, portraying further the witches excellence in planning.