Ambition by Grace https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition How is the topic of ambition explored in the texts? What do the playwright and director seem to suggest about ambition? Why? en-us 2018-07-15 03:56:59 UTC 2021-08-16 00:28:48 UTC hello@padlet.com in macbeth power is very literal becuase the powwer postion in the text is a king, this postsion gives man the resource of an enterire kingdom and their lands king but sadly when macbeth does get the throne its not out of some want for land or wealth its his pure ideation and fixation on pure he craves this is dervived from his toxic masculine traits he craves to be on top. where as in mean girls power is in status, popularity and blackmail. cady wants this power becuase she feels excluded from the school, and beleieves that with it she'd be able to win the boy over with her new found status jb https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679641321 2021-08-15 23:20:47 UTC https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679641321 Macbeth, Regina, Banquo, Gretchen and Lady Macbeth are portrayed as ambitious in different ways. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth crave power and status. Banquo does as well but he's more excited about his future prospects with his descendants getting the throne. Gretchen tries to be as powerful as Regina. Regina's ambitions involve keeping the power she currently holds over everyone and getting rid of those who get in her way, similar to Macbeth. As for Cady, she doesn't become ambitious until Regina interrupts her plans with her crush. Then, Cady plans to take her down with Janis manipulating her to do so. s.w https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679643923 2021-08-15 23:25:39 UTC https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679643923 Power gives characters in both Macbeth and Mean Girls a sense of invincibility. When more power is gained, their confidence and ambition grows, to the point where they see no means to ever stop and be content. As their power evolves, the characters continue to receive what they were chasing, but are never satisfied with what they have already accompished. Both texts suggest that although ambition is a strong drive to have in life, it can make you power hungry and lead to corruption- and eventually, your downfall. afvr https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679645576 2021-08-15 23:28:40 UTC https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679645576 KH - People want power so they can be recognised by others, whether they want other to fear them or follow them depends on the person, by seizing power may not always get you what you want or have the outcome you believed would come from he power. In Maceth the power is a more literal, or closer to a hierarchy, whereas Mean girls shows a social status as their hierarchy. Through the text the Authors might be suggesting that having the power isn't always gracious as it seems and it matters how you act and who you hurt to gt your power. https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679647054 2021-08-15 23:31:43 UTC https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679647054 https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679648551 Ambition does not motivate positive actions in the texts, as in both Mean Girls and Macbeth, ambition is seen as a tool to gain power.
When Lady Macbeth says ‘thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, that without the illness should attend it’, she is telling Macbeth that ambition goes hand in hand with a mean streak that he does not possess. 

Ambition in Mean Girls is presented in a similar fashion. The social hierarchy in the school allows Regina and the Plastics to say anything and do anything as Regina gained this power through manipulation and causing fear in others. 

Through this, the authors might be suggesting that under certain circumstances, ambition is a dangerous factor that inspires unrest and distrust.
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]]> 2021-08-15 23:34:54 UTC https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679648551 both texts serve as warning for what ambition can lead to both lead to destruction for macbeth death and men girls cady loses all of her status and becomes the most hated. both texts warn about how ambition can bend and break your morales an lead you to do horrible things in macbeth yu see back stabbing and planned murder, in mean girls its planned sabotage to remove status jb https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679648794 2021-08-15 23:35:13 UTC https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679648794 https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679649327 Both texts show that ambition is good up until a point but ambition can overpower someone's mind and cloud someone's judgment and make them do things unrationally K.D.]]> 2021-08-15 23:36:16 UTC https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679649327 Although their motives may differ, The Macbeths, Banquo, Regina and Cady are the most obvious characters in the texts who are potrayed as ambitious. The Macbeths are power hungry (it fluctuates during different parts of the story) and with that, involves ranking. In comparison, Banquo acts far less in the name of his ambition- although he's greatly intrigued by what the prophecy will gift him and his sons. Regina on the other hand wishes to uphold her current status and power, and will defeat anyone underneath her that may challenge it. Although Cady was originally manipulated to deceive The Plastics, her own ambition grew as she began to experience that taste for power (creating her own plans). afvr https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679656174 2021-08-15 23:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679656174 KH - Macbeth and Regina were both the ones who wanted the direct power, lady Macbeth and Janis wanted power for their partner/friend. Cady and macbeth both let people convince them into going to far for power which eventually leads them to downfall. https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679657491 2021-08-15 23:50:26 UTC https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679657491 both texts lead to the characters personality being warped into something vile. this happens due to their absolute fixations on power they ignore all else in a blind pursuit. leading to immoral descicons and a lose of self as deomstraighted in macbeth when macbeth begins to abuse and y'all at all his servant s he lost all that made him, he was left with only his murder and ambition and died with it. compare this to mean girls nd she loses her friends and the boy due to her cravings 0f populartiy jb https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679658128 2021-08-15 23:51:19 UTC https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679658128 KH - In both texts ambition drives them to their own insanity. Their ambition for power becomes their downfall once they get their power. The authors may be suggesting that ambition has it's downfalls and to make sure you're striving for the right cause and not just because you can and because you want power. https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679659853 2021-08-15 23:54:27 UTC https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679659853 the old adage "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" suits the ark of gaining power in both the texts. Power is shown to be self populating and feed itself, as characters get a taste for it they want more and more. They get what they originally desired but it comes with a corrupting force that eventually leaves the characters seeking power for the sake of power. -JA https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679660597 2021-08-15 23:55:53 UTC https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679660597 KH - in both texts they show ambition can be a good drive to get your dreams but it shows how unrashinal you can become if you let ambition take full control of you and your actions and how blinded you can become for power. https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679661836 2021-08-15 23:58:13 UTC https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679661836 KH - In both texts they show the person becoming powerful after they've been convinced by the people around them and once they tasted their power they only wanted more turning into their own worst enemy and losing the people they loved, betraying anyone and everyone out of paranoier and the need to be the best. https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679664682 2021-08-16 00:02:41 UTC https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679664682 M.S Both texts portray the inevitable downfall of characters caused by corrupt motives, highlighting to the audience the dangers of unchecked desire. In Macbeth, ambition is presented as a high risk quality and the cause of defeat. When the tyrannical leader begins to celebrate his violent leadership and 'forgets the taste of fear', his 'vaulting ambition' makes him blind to threats and leads to his downfall. Similary to Macbeths portrayle of unchecked ambition, 'Mean Girls' also presents the conseqeunces of being power hungry and obbsesed with gaining a higher status. Cady's unhealthy fixation with reaching the top of the social heirachy, through means of 'major plastic sabotage' and deception, causes her to become the corrupt bully she despised. https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679666337 2021-08-16 00:05:36 UTC https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679666337 https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679670167 In both Macebth and Mean Girls, ambition does not motivate positive actions, despite the character's belief and delusion that they are causing positive change. 

Macbeth and Cady only grow more power hungry as each goal is achieved. Their seemingly neverending need for power only leads to their eventual downfall.

The texts suggest that ambition isn't inherently bad. But when you have to betray and step on others simply for personal gain, it's unethical. That constant need for more will promptly lead to your defeat. afvr

]]> 2021-08-16 00:12:10 UTC https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679670167 KH - In both texts it shows the downfall of their power caused by their ambition in the first place. But it also showed that ambition was what got them there in the first place and all their actions were blinded by their need and craving for power. So both texts show that ambition can motivate bad behavior because it can blind you ad cause you to do things without thinking. https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679674903 2021-08-16 00:19:13 UTC https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679674903 KH - Cady used ambition after Janis and Ian had gotten into her head she let it blind her and once she became "regina's clone" she wouldn't accept it and would blind herself so she wouldn't use it as an excuse as such but she still used it as a way to become evil and say no i'm just doing it to do bad things to Regina,this all ended up her own downfall. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth were almost just convincing themselves that it was okay for them to do all their killing because they wanted the power. So in both texts they weren't defending themselves to other to justify their actions they were more trying to justify their own actions because they allowed themseves to be blinded by ambition causing the bad behaviour https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679679256 2021-08-16 00:25:53 UTC https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679679256 https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679681311 Characters use ambition as an excuse for bad behaviour in both Macbeth and Mean Girls.

As Cady begins to crave more power and gains more ambition, she creates her own plans to 'seperate The Plastics', excluding her original partners in crime. Her excuses used for her selfish behaviour involved motives such as the greater good, when her own personal benefit was truly her only priority at that point. 

Macbeth's behaviour is similiar in the way he acts to Lady Macbeth later in the text. Killing Banquo was an obvious decision to make in the name of maintaining his current status. 

Both characters not only attempt to explain their malicious behaviour to those around them, but also to themsleves. afvr]]> 2021-08-16 00:28:47 UTC https://padlet.com/gracematildarob/ambition/wish/1679681311