ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -#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.

Detailed explanation-2: -"All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter”-Gives Macbeth the ambition to become king. “Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires”-Macbeth. “yet I do fear thy nature”-Lady Macbeth fears that Macbeth is too kind to kill the king.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ambition. Macbeth: I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on th’ other. In this line, Macbeth is describing his lack of motivation, and the fact that the only thing driving him at present is ambition.

Detailed explanation-4: -Overall, Shakespeare presents ambition as something which can corrupt a character and lead to an inevitably tragic fate for them. He uses Lady Macbeth and Macbeth as antimodels for people with an immense amount of ambition; their insatiable greed and ambition for power ultimately causes their deaths.

Detailed explanation-5: -Quotes from Act 1, Scene 5 He is ambitious, but too kind hearted to carry out the dead. The effect and it!” This quote comes from Lady Macbeth’s second monologue, after the messenger informs her that the king will be arriving at her castle.