Glossary
The self-overleaping desire that tries to jump over consequence and instead turns its own propulsion into a fall.
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vaulting ambition
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition which or leaps itself and falls on the other it's quite..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition which or leaps itself and falls on the other it's quite..."
Key Notes
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Bromwich reads 'vaulting ambition' and the image of leaping the 'bank and shoal of time' as Macbeth's false belief that a deed can be made into a purely local event rather than something that stretches across a life.
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"...no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition which or leaps itself and falls on the other it's quite..."
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"...see the amount of fantasy and the and the sense of ambition um just in the way the metaphors work uh in this speech..."
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"be the be all and the end all here right now in this place no consequences but then he comes to the idea of..."
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"ambition which or leaps itself and falls on the other so the fantasy is in this bank and shoal of time like crossing a..."
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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