English - Macbeth Ambition Quotes 10ENG12
Studied by 0 people
Learn
Practice Test
Spaced Repetition
Match
FlashcardsMacbeth's soliloquy: bloody instructions
"Bloody instructions which, being taught, return to plague the inventor." (Macbeth)
Macbeth's soliloquy: vaulting ambition
"I have no spur/To prick the sides...Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself/And fall..." (Macbeth)
1/5
There's no tags or description
Looks like no tags are added yet.
Name | Mastery | Learn | Test | Matching | Spaced |
|---|
No study sessions yet.
6 Terms
Macbeth's soliloquy: bloody instructions
"Bloody instructions which, being taught, return to plague the inventor." (Macbeth)
Macbeth's soliloquy: vaulting ambition
"I have no spur/To prick the sides...Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself/And fall..." (Macbeth)
Imagery of blood: make thick my blood
"Make thick my blood/stop up the access and passage to remorse." (Lady Macbeth)
Imagery of blood: Neptune's ocean
"Will all great Neptune's Ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?" (Macbeth)
Pathetic Fallacy: the earth was ferverous
"Some say, the earth/Was feverous and did shake." (Lennox)
Pathetic Fallacy: falcon
"A falcon tow'ring in her pride of place / Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed." (Old Man)