One Word Assignment; Macbeth by William Magnuson https://padlet.com/20magnusonw/3r3c8ivc6opp en-us 2019-03-22 04:00:08 UTC 2019-03-22 04:57:45 UTC hello@padlet.com 20magnusonw https://padlet.com/20magnusonw/3r3c8ivc6opp/wish/344074515 Intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food.]]> 2019-03-22 04:08:52 UTC https://padlet.com/20magnusonw/3r3c8ivc6opp/wish/344074515 20magnusonw https://padlet.com/20magnusonw/3r3c8ivc6opp/wish/344074697 An overwhelming urge to have more of something]]> 2019-03-22 04:10:52 UTC https://padlet.com/20magnusonw/3r3c8ivc6opp/wish/344074697 20magnusonw https://padlet.com/20magnusonw/3r3c8ivc6opp/wish/344076164 Egocentric, egotistic, ambitious, materialistic, gluttony, intemperance, voracity, rapacity, avarice, insatiableness.]]> 2019-03-22 04:24:49 UTC https://padlet.com/20magnusonw/3r3c8ivc6opp/wish/344076164 20magnusonw https://padlet.com/20magnusonw/3r3c8ivc6opp/wish/344076447 Macbeth was very egocentric when killing King Duncan and claiming the throne.
Lady Macbeth was ambitious throughout the whole play in her desire to stay Queen.]]> 2019-03-22 04:27:45 UTC https://padlet.com/20magnusonw/3r3c8ivc6opp/wish/344076447 20magnusonw https://padlet.com/20magnusonw/3r3c8ivc6opp/wish/344076615 Greed was very important to the plot and development of characters in Macbeth.
Greed and ambition lead Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to follow their pursuit of being King and Queen in trying times. Their devotion lead them into conflict and greed ended up being their downfall.]]> 2019-03-22 04:30:21 UTC https://padlet.com/20magnusonw/3r3c8ivc6opp/wish/344076615 20magnusonw https://padlet.com/20magnusonw/3r3c8ivc6opp/wish/344076981 “Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see” (I.iv.52-55).
Macbeth's greed is encompassed in this quote as he explains that he will do anything to continue his position as King and will do anything possible to satisfy his desire]]> 2019-03-22 04:34:57 UTC https://padlet.com/20magnusonw/3r3c8ivc6opp/wish/344076981 20magnusonw https://padlet.com/20magnusonw/3r3c8ivc6opp/wish/344077387  “I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on th' other.” (I.vii.25-28).
Macbeth's greed and ambition are making him strive to continue as King. He thinks that he has more power than everybody else and whoever is going to take his spot needs to have more will and ambition than him.
]]> 2019-03-22 04:39:52 UTC https://padlet.com/20magnusonw/3r3c8ivc6opp/wish/344077387 20magnusonw https://padlet.com/20magnusonw/3r3c8ivc6opp/wish/344077555 “Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all, As the weird women promised, and I fear Thou played’st most foully for ’t. Yet it was said It should not stand in thy posterity” (III.i.1-4).
Banquo has realized the greed and ambition that Macbeth now possesses due to the witch's giving him the prophecy that he will become King. ]]> 2019-03-22 04:41:57 UTC https://padlet.com/20magnusonw/3r3c8ivc6opp/wish/344077555 20magnusonw https://padlet.com/20magnusonw/3r3c8ivc6opp/wish/344077835 "I think our country sinks beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds" (IV.iii.39-40).
This use of personification shows that Macbeth lusts for more power over other countries and he can sense and uprising coming.]]> 2019-03-22 04:46:33 UTC https://padlet.com/20magnusonw/3r3c8ivc6opp/wish/344077835 20magnusonw https://padlet.com/20magnusonw/3r3c8ivc6opp/wish/344078288 "There the grown serpent lies. The worm that’s fled
Hath nature that in time will venom breed" (III.iv.30-31).
This use of a metaphor shows that Macbeth's greed will lead him to kill anybody that is a threat to him. He knew that the prophecy said that Banquo's descendants will be kings and he wants to stop that because they are a threat to him.]]> 2019-03-22 04:52:57 UTC https://padlet.com/20magnusonw/3r3c8ivc6opp/wish/344078288