ambition

• macbeth's amibition - act 1 scene 3


  'my thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, shakes so my single state of man can function'
• lady macbeth's ambition - act 1 scene 5


  'art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it'
• macbeth's amibition - act 1 scene 7


  'i have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself'
• banquo's ambition - act 3 scene 1


  'it was said that myself should be the root and father of many kings, may they not be oracles as well and set me up in hope?'
• consequences of uncontrolled ambition - act 5 scene 5


  'life's but a walking shadow (...) a tale told by an idiot'