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GCSE English Literature · key term
Excessive pride or confidence that leads someone to disregard limits and consequences.
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Paper 1, Paper 2
Excessive pride or confidence that leads someone to disregard their limitations or danger.
Revise: MacbethIn Act 4, Macbeth seeks the Witches again. Their assurances encourage his hubris, or excessive confidence: he assumes that a moving forest and a man not born of a woman are impossible threats.
Excessive pride or self-confidence, especially when someone believes they can exceed moral or human limits.
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Excessive pride or self-confidence, especially when it leads someone to disregard limits or warnings.
Excessive pride or confidence, especially when a character assumes that they can exceed ordinary human limits.
Excessive pride or confidence that encourages a person to disregard limits and consequences.
Excessive pride or confidence, especially in a person’s own power or importance.
Paper 1, Paper 2
Excessive pride or confidence that leads someone to overestimate their power and disregard limits.
Excessive pride or confidence that leads a person to disregard limits or dangers.
Excessive pride or confidence that leads someone to overestimate their powers and disregard limits or responsibilities.
Excessive pride or confidence that leads someone to disregard their limitations.
Paper 2
Excessive pride or confidence that leads someone to disregard moral limits or underestimate danger.
Revise: AmbitionA formerly admired figure can fall through the desire to rise beyond moral limits. This connects ambition with hubris, excessive pride. Within the belief in the Great Chain of Being, murdering a monarch to seize his place attacks a God-ordered hierarchy.
