ambition

• "too full of the milk of human kindness"

  • can stop him achieving the crown
  • masking his masculinity
  • gender norms of a Jacobean man is hidden
  • needs to be more masculine to suceed
• "If good, why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my heart knock at my ribs"

  • started to think about murdering Duncan
  • Physically shocked by the thought
• "'Gainst nature still! Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up thine own life's means"

  • Rosse thinks that pointless ambition drove Malcom and Donaldbain to have have their father murdered
• " why by the verities on thee made good may they not be my oracles as well"

  • Banquo hopes that the predictions will come true.
  • he is not corrupted like Macbeth