Ambition

• "Thou wouldst be great Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it" Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5, doubting her husband's power, reflects on her philosophy of power to sets morality aside for greater power
• "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 A1S7, tension between Macbeth’s unwillingness and his dark ambition