Ambition

Ambition

1. Act 1

   • Fair is foul, & foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air. -- Scene 1
   • "For brave Macbeth — well he deserves that name — Disdaining Fortune, with his brandish'd steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valour's minion carved out his passage Till he faced the slave." -- Scene 2
   • "Yet I do `thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness, To catch the nearest way." -- Scene 5
   • "I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / Vaulting ambition. " -- Scene 7
   • "My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smother'd in surmise. " -- Scene 3
   • "Why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? " -- Scene 3

2. Act 4

   • "The castle of Macduff I will surprise, Seize upon Fife; give to the edge o’ the sword His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls That trace him in his line. No boasting like a fool;(170) This deed I'll do before this purpose cool. But no more sights!–Where are these gentlemen? Come, bring me where they are." -- Act 4