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Themes are the big ideas that run through the entire play. AQA expects you to track these themes across the play and connect them to context. This lesson covers three closely linked themes: ambition, power, and kingship.
Ambition is the driving force of the play — Macbeth's "vaulting ambition" (1.7) is his hamartia (tragic flaw) and the engine of every major event.
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