AMAZING QUOTE for MACBETH (Fits EVERY Essay) Top Grade Analysis with @FirstRateTutors — Transcript

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1. 0:00welcome to another top grades video made
2. 0:02easy today Barbara and I are going to
3. 0:04give you the one quote that you will be
4. 0:07able to choose for any single MC Beth
5. 0:11question we're going to prove it right
6. 0:13now the quote is about ambition
7. 0:16obviously we've chosen ambition because
8. 0:18it's the obvious theme that will come up
9. 0:21I have no spur to prick the sides of my
10. 0:24intent but only vaulting ambition which
11. 0:29reaches itself and falls on the other
12. 0:31side so Barbara what do you want us to
13. 0:35know about that quote okay so I think
14. 0:37the vating ambition quote is really
15. 0:39powerful literally it's the best
16. 0:42quotation that going into your exams on
17. 0:44MC Beth you need to be able to analyze
18. 0:47and discuss and um think about how it
19. 0:50relates to all of the characters now
20. 0:52when it comes to vaulting ambition the
21. 0:54first thing I'll probably think about
22. 0:55and especially what you want to do with
23. 0:57any Creations that you use in MC Beth is
24. 0:59you want to do a little bit of analysis
25. 1:01okay so you want to talk about
26. 1:03techniques the notion of vaulting
27. 1:05ambition is hyperbole here what we can
28. 1:08see especially when you're thinking
29. 1:09about literally in the context in which
30. 1:11MC Beth mentions his voting ambition is
31. 1:14he sees what he wants to attain which is
32. 1:17kingship power as something that is far
33. 1:21too great for him to handle it almost
34. 1:24terrifies him in fact it's not almost
35. 1:26terrifies it petrifies him okay so
36. 1:29you're thinking about that in terms of
37. 1:32techniques equally of course the idea
38. 1:34that voting ambition Falls so ambition
39. 1:36is being personified but what is it
40. 1:38doing once it's personified it falls
41. 1:40right meaning that McBeth is realizing
42. 1:43that this ambition that he has uh and
43. 1:45which he holds for power is so great
44. 1:48that he's not able to handle it and it
45. 1:50falls now what's really interesting
46. 1:52about this quotation and this word
47. 1:54specifically is it also foreshadows MC's
48. 1:56eventual fall when he fulfills his
49. 1:58ambition to become king he's not able to
50. 2:00handle it okay so I think that's really
51. 2:02interesting that would be the first
52. 2:04layer of analysis when you're unpacking
53. 2:06this quotation especially as your
54. 2:08elsewhere in the play quotation how
55. 2:10about uh what else do you think would be
56. 2:12worth considering brilliant so I'm going
57. 2:14to pick up on the personification idea
58. 2:17and look at the idea of extended
59. 2:19metaphor so he's imagining ambition as a
60. 2:23horse that is vaulting jumping over an
61. 2:26obstacle but what he's saying is I've
62. 2:30only got ambition that's going to make
63. 2:33my horse of ambition jump but I need
64. 2:36something else that is going to operate
65. 2:39the spur so in his extended metaphor
66. 2:42he's thinking I the spur is no good
67. 2:45that's on the end of the boot I actually
68. 2:46need a rider the rider that's going to
69. 2:49control the jump of the ambition and
70. 2:51that's going to stop the fall well who
71. 2:55is the best rider in the extended
72. 2:57metaphor for me that's lady MC Beth
73. 2:59that's why he writes to her and says you
74. 3:01know my dearest partner in greatness
75. 3:03this is the greatness that's promised
76. 3:05thee because he needs her to come up
77. 3:08with a plan he knows that without Lady M
78. 3:10Beth he's going to completely fail and
79. 3:13and I think that's um such a great
80. 3:16connection to why this quotation is so
81. 3:18interesting because we've only talked
82. 3:20about it in relation and in connection
83. 3:21to MC Beth however this quotation is
84. 3:24also really powerful when you're
85. 3:26thinking about the other characters in
86. 3:27the place so as Mr sales is mentioning
87. 3:29when it comes to vaulting ambition why
88. 3:31you can why it's such a great quotation
89. 3:33to use is also it relates to Lady McBeth
90. 3:36okay so as Mr s's mentioned she's the
91. 3:39character who McBeth FS it's through her
92. 3:42support and through her scheming that
93. 3:44he's able to fulfill his ambition but
94. 3:46also the other side of wuling ambition
95. 3:48when you're thinking about lady mcb's
96. 3:49character is the fact that she of course
97. 3:51is portrayed as a very ambitious
98. 3:53character but what does that also lead
99. 3:54her to it leads to her eventual fall
100. 3:57okay it's also something that she
101. 3:59obviously strives for she strives for
102. 4:01power but equally she's unable to handle
103. 4:04the weight and the gravity of this
104. 4:06ambition this eventually leads to her
105. 4:08fall when she is driven insane by all
106. 4:11the crimes that she has influenced
107. 4:13McBeth to commit brilliant I'm also
108. 4:16going to focus on the word fall to think
109. 4:18about the Christian imagery So Adam and
110. 4:22Eve betrayed God in Eden and that is
111. 4:25referred to in Christian tradition as
112. 4:28the fool and obviously Christian
113. 4:31audience would have understood this and
114. 4:33this is what Shakespeare's way of
115. 4:35showing how ambition is evil it's just
116. 4:38like the original sin of Adam and Eve
117. 4:41where they went against God so challenge
118. 4:44for us what's if the question is about
119. 4:47banro we've never had a question on
120. 4:49banro mind but we have had one on banro
121. 4:52and the supernatural could I use that to
122. 4:55write about banquot of course because
123. 4:57banquot especially when you think about
124. 4:59even the question itself ban M attitud
125. 5:01towards the supernatural but equally
126. 5:02let's say in the very unlikely event
127. 5:04you've got a banqu question remember
128. 5:06that banquot is used to contrast McBeth
129. 5:09okay so he to some extent is a little
130. 5:11bit of a foil to MC Beth's character
131. 5:13remember foil is basically one character
132. 5:15that shows a shortcomings of another
133. 5:16character okay now unlike MC Beth
134. 5:19because they both received prophecies
135. 5:20great prophecies from The Witches
136. 5:22banquot never does anything about the
137. 5:26prophecies and about the fact that his
138. 5:27children will become Kings he never
139. 5:30takes on this vaulting level of ambition
140. 5:33he is happy for fate to carry his
141. 5:35children and his family to the
142. 5:37eventuality of his family becoming Kings
143. 5:40okay so this quotation is also
144. 5:43interesting if you did in the very
145. 5:44unlikely event get a Baner question you
146. 5:47want to talk about how Shakespeare is
147. 5:48presenting him as the model as the
148. 5:51person who does not act on ambition and
149. 5:54hence the only reason why he falls is
150. 5:56because of mcbeth's betrayal he just
151. 5:58trusts mcth a bit too much but actually
152. 6:00his actions are perfect he doesn't act
153. 6:02on the ambition of attaining power that
154. 6:05was genius how on Earth would you apply
155. 6:07this to Banquo and you've just seen it
156. 6:08done can I do the same sent me a
157. 6:11challenge okay um I think mcdu because I
158. 6:14think MCD is an interesting character so
159. 6:17we probably wouldn't get a question
160. 6:18about McDuff but we we would get a
161. 6:20question maybe about kingship where he
162. 6:23would play a part and so McDuff is a
163. 6:27fascinating character because his wife
164. 6:30calls him a traitor for abandoning her
165. 6:34and mdff wants to be able to defeat MC
166. 6:39Beth so I think he is a corrupt figure
167. 6:43actually oh yeah yeah so when his wife
168. 6:47calls him a traitor she means you've
169. 6:50left the castle undefended we're going
170. 6:52to be victims of this and then she's
171. 6:54instantly proved correct and Shakespeare
172. 6:56deliberately shows it that all the other
173. 6:59killings aren shown on stage but the
174. 7:01killing of Lady McDuff and her son are
175. 7:04portrayed on stage because Shakespeare
176. 7:07finds his betrayal mcduff's betrayal so
177. 7:10shocking and was that the result of
178. 7:13ambition I think it was because McDuff
179. 7:17needs the motive to kill MC Beth and the
180. 7:20motive is MC Beth has slaughtered my
181. 7:23family that's why mcbu McDuff appears
182. 7:25and he says look I'm not even going to
183. 7:26draw my sword until I meet McBeth
184. 7:30because that is his only motive for
185. 7:32being there and how did he get that
186. 7:34motive that Beth slayed his family why
187. 7:37did that happen cuz McDuff abandoned his
188. 7:40family I think McDuff is a terrible
189. 7:42person oh okay well that's a really
190. 7:45interesting interpretation but I think
191. 7:47uh going back to what we initially said
192. 7:49this quotation is perfect when you think
193. 7:51about the main characters we've
194. 7:53mentioned right and of course obviously
195. 7:55another character we haven't talked
196. 7:56about is the witches it's the witches
197. 7:58that spark M best ambition and so
198. 8:01they're the ones who plant the seeds and
199. 8:03always remember when you're talking
200. 8:04about anything to do with the
201. 8:04supernatural the witches and MC Beth you
202. 8:06always want to use this phrase The
203. 8:08Witches plant the seeds of ambition in
204. 8:11mcbeth's mind and this triggers his
205. 8:14downfall so the witches play a key role
206. 8:17in triggering this vaulting ambition
207. 8:19that inevitably leads to his fault and
208. 8:22of course obviously you can make the
209. 8:23same point for the theme of the
210. 8:24supernatural of course ambition is a
211. 8:26central theme but equally when you're
212. 8:27thinking about guilt and so on all of
213. 8:29this is sparked by MCB sporting ambition
214. 8:32brilliant so my final link will be to
215. 8:35the great chain of being and if you know
216. 8:37about the great chain of being God is at
217. 8:39the top then you've got the king then
218. 8:41you've got the Nobles and then various
219. 8:44levels of society and then you've got
220. 8:46animals which have also been ranked and
221. 8:49what MC Beth does here when he's
222. 8:51thinking about killing Duncan is his
223. 8:53extended metaphor immediately sees
224. 8:55himself as the horse the vaulting
225. 8:57ambition he portrays himself as the
226. 9:00animal and this is kind of an internal
227. 9:03warning to himself not to do what he's
228. 9:05going to do because he's going to become
229. 9:07animalistic and that links easily to how
230. 9:11Lady McBeth says to him what Beast was
231. 9:14it then that broke this news to me so
232. 9:17she enters into that animal imagery
233. 9:19which develops into the scorpions in his
234. 9:22mind and so on and so the irony that
235. 9:24Shakespeare is pointing out is MC Beth
236. 9:27had a chance to realize he was going to
237. 9:29fail to realize he was going to become
238. 9:32an animalistic and change but he chooses
239. 9:34not to because the ambition was too
240. 9:37great awesome so guys I hope you found
241. 9:40this useful and as I said have this
242. 9:43quotation as your top quote going into
243. 9:45your final mcth gcsc exams and don't
244. 9:48forget that we do have a predictions
245. 9:50video what we think is going to come up
246. 9:52in the mcth exams you can watch that F's
247. 9:54Channel brilliant I will link it here