#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. "Next.#1: Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever." The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.
"Also," Sadie said, "What does any of that have to do with games?" "Why start a game company? Let's go kill ourselves," Sam joked.
#Macbeth ambition quotes full#
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, To make his case, Marx jumped up on a kitchen chair and recited the "Tomorrow" speech for them, which he knew by heart:Ĭreeps in this petty pace from day to day,Īnd all our yesterdays have lighted fools "Do you have any ideas that aren't from Shakespeare?" Sadie said. “When they had been deciding what to call their company all those years ago, Marx had argued for calling it Tomorrow Games, a name Sam and Sadie instantly rejected as "too soft." Marx explained that the name referenced his favorite speech in Shakespeare, and that it wasn't soft at all.