AMBITION AND DESIRE

SYmbolic connections of ambition and desire to
Macbeth

THREE SISTERS PRophecies

• "All hail, macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!"
• "The power of man, for none born of woman/shall harm macbeth."
• "Macbeth shall never vanquished be, until/Great birnam wood to high dunsinane hill/shall come against him."

Floating Dagger

• "A dagger of the mind, a false creation/proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?/I see thee yet, in form as palpable as which i draw now."
• "and on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood/which was not so before. there's no such thing. it is the bloody business which informs/thus to mine eyes."
• "Hear it (the bell) not Dunca, for it is a knell/that summons thee to heaven, or to hell."

lady macbeth

• "Look like th' innocent flower/but be the serpent under it"
• "And live a coward in thine own esteem,/letting 'i dare not' wait upon 'i would.'"
• "When you durst do it, then you were a man."

COnclusion