Duncan
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- Duncan
- Perfect King
- "as justice, verity, temperance, stableness...patience, courage, fortitude."
- juxtaposition of lists
- powerful characteristics
- amount of love people had for him
- noun, verity
- Duncan is meant to be the king
- adjective "lowliness"
- Cares more about the duties of being king and the responsibilities rather than the wealth
- juxtaposition of lists
- "I have begun to plant thee and will labour/ to make thee full of growing."
- metaphor
- hopes and aspirations he has for Macbeth and Banquo and has had these hopes since they were children
- verb "labouring"
- the king usually has people to do jobs for them however he has taken on the responsibility himself to help Banquo and Macbeth even though they aren't his own sons.
- ironic
- Macbeth is going to put away Duncans help- Duncan is naïve and doesn't see that Macbeth is evil
- metaphor
- "as justice, verity, temperance, stableness...patience, courage, fortitude."
- Meant to be King
- "silver skin laced with golden blood"
- imagery
- shows contrast between light skin and dark blood
- makes death even more horrendous
- whoever spills his blood will have to pay a great deed
- Duncan's body is symbolised as a treasure chest as instead of bleeding blood he bleeds gold
- power of the monarch
- shows contrast between light skin and dark blood
- imagery
- "will plead like angels, trumpet tongued against/ the deep damnation of his taking off"
- verb
- shows urgency- even something as powerful as the heavens are suffering because of Duncan's death.
- Noun "angels"
- shows urgency- even something as powerful as the heavens are suffering because of Duncan's death.
- verb
- "silver skin laced with golden blood"
- Trusting
- "there's no art to find the minds construction in the face"
- dramatic irony
- the audience have just been told that the Thane of Cawdor betrayed Duncan and Duncan is now going to be betrayed on a bigger level by Macbeth who he put his absolute trust in
- dramatic irony
- he shows "drops of sorrow" because he's so happy.
- Symbolism
- Duncan doesn't have the qualities that other characters associate with manliness, but Shakespeare shows that he is kind and fair.
- this leads the audience to question whether a king needs to be a violent warrior
- can be seen as unmanly
- Duncan doesn't have the qualities that other characters associate with manliness, but Shakespeare shows that he is kind and fair.
- Symbolism
- "there's no art to find the minds construction in the face"
- Perfect King
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