Techniques: Imagery, figurative language, characterisation.Essentially, Macbeth is desensitised to killing people and believes it’s impossible for him to go back to his old self.
Meaning: From all the murders he has committed, Macbeth has become accustomed to the act and can’t see himself stopping as it would be harder to return to the person he used to be.#8: I am in blood / Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o’er. Techniques: imagery, characterisation, fatal flaw.#7: Come, seeling night, / Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day / And with thy bloody and invisible hand / Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond / Which keeps me pale. He says to the murderers that they should decide for themselves whether they will do this. He insists on this being Fleance’s fate to prevent the second part of the witches’ prophecy from coming true, in which Banquo’s son becomes king. Meaning: Macbeth is telling the murderers that along with Banquo, they must also kill his son, Fleance.#6: Fleance, his son, that keeps him company, / Whose absence is no less material to me / Than is his father’s, must embrace the fate / Of that dark hour. #5: To be thus is nothing, / But to be safely thus. Techniques: Soliloquy, characterisation.Meaning: Macbeth finds it difficult to justify his intent to murder Duncan - it’s only his ambition to be powerful that is pushing him to commit the act, otherwise he has not other motivation or reason for harming Duncan in such a manner.#4: I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself / And falls on th’ other. Techniques: Characterisation, rhyming couplet.#3: Stars, hide your fires / Let not light see my black and deep desires. If good, 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? Present fears / Are less than horrible imaginings. If ill, / Why hath it given me earnest of success, / Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor. #2: This supernatural soliciting / Cannot be ill, cannot be good. Techniques: Characterisation, fatal flaw.By Sinel’s death I know I am thane of Glamis. #1: Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more. Two key characters who are tied to ambition throughout the play are Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, which can be seen through the quotes below. As you study Macbeth, you will come to see how different characters experience the feeling of ambition.
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