macbeth quotes

• Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other-: 'Macbeth'
• Vaulting ambition


  Personifies his ambition almost like a human force his ambition , is so powerful
• Vaulting ambition


  Destined to lead to his mental and physical decline
• Fall Shows Macbeths aware that his all encompassing ambition is his hamartia
• destined to lead to to he his mental and physical decline
• Sleep no: 'I heard a voice cry'
• Motif of sleep


  Synonymous with innocence
• Lack of sleep


  Symbolise his departure from innocence as he committed regicide
• Macbeth's transition


  1. From imperative commands such as 'stars hide your fires'

  2. To being mentally haunted by cries
• Motif of death


  dagger signifies death
• Motif of death


  dagger signifies death and macbeths barbaric nature and him beginning to become a tyrant
• Rhetorical question


  paired with his hallucinations signifies the beginning of his mental decline
• his conscience has been played

  with guilt