character analysis of macduff
- Created by: loupardoe
- Created on: 28-10-16 11:42
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- Macduff
- revengeful
- act 4 scene 3- lines 233-238
- He and Macbeth come face-to-face on the battlefield and Macduff is victorious.
- Macduff is actually a man of few words preferring to get on with things.
- When he learns of the murder of his family he becomes even more determined to take revenge.
- He could sit around crying about his loss ('I could play the woman with mine eyes') or making great speeches about his intentions ('braggart with my tongue').
- Macduff wants to rid his country of the tyrant Macbeth and vows to help Malcolm achieve this
- Instead he cannot wait for the moment ('cut short all intermission') when he and Macbeth come face-to-face and he can be avenged.
- loyal
- Malcolm tests Macduff's loyalty by pretending to be a worse human being than Macbeth himself
- act 4 scene 3- lines 115-122
- Macduff refuses to give up his loyalty to the Scottish royal family
- He follows Malcolm (the rightful king) to England and becomes his right-hand man supporting him in his bid to regain the throne.
- Malcolm reveals his deception and contrasts the 'integrity' and 'good truth and honour' of Macduff with that of 'Devilish Macbeth'.
- It is he who discovers Duncan's body and reveals the full horror of the murder.
- He finishes by saying that he completely trusts Macduff - 'I put myself to thy direction'.
- Macduff's first loyalty is to his king and country
- revengeful
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