Macbeth: Character of Macbeth
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- Created on: 01-05-17 12:15
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- Macbeth
- Ambitious
- "...Tell me more..."
- "...The greatest is behind..."
- "...I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair..."
- "...My black and deep desires..."
- "I have no spur...but only vaulting ambition."
- No cause but ambition to kill Duncan
- Brave
- "Brave Macbeth...he deserves that name..."
- Other characters think highly of Macbeth
- Gives the audience a good first impression of Macbeth
- Other characters think highly of Macbeth
- "O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!"
- Other characters think highly of Macbeth
- Gives the audience a good first impression of Macbeth
- Other characters think highly of Macbeth
- "Speak if you can..."
- "Brave Macbeth...he deserves that name..."
- Brutal
- "...Brandished steel which smoked with bloody execution..."
- Character's like Macbeth
- To be thought of as good you need to prove yourself in battle
- Character's like Macbeth
- "...Carved out his passage..."
- "...Unseamed him from the nave to the chops and fixed his head upon our battlements."
- Character's like Macbeth
- To be thought of as good you need to prove yourself in battle
- Character's like Macbeth
- "...Brandished steel which smoked with bloody execution..."
- Weak
- "...Thy nature is too full of the milk of human kindness..."
- Indecisive
- "We will speak further."
- "If it were done...then t'were well it were done quickly."
- Reluctance to kill
- Not manly
- Reluctance to kill
- Lady Macbeth persuades him to kill very easily
- "And if we should fail?"
- Wants Lady Macbeth to take charge and tell him the plan
- Loyal and Noble
- "...Noble Macbeth..."
- "My worthy Cawdor!"
- "I dare do all that may become a man, who dares do more is none..."
- He is a man because he is a brave solider but anyone who kills their king is not a man
- Evil
- Macbeth occasionally speaks in ryhme
- Links him to the supernatural and sets him apart from the other good characters
- Shows the effect the Witches have on him
- "So foul and fair a day I have not seen."
- Shakespeare links Macbeth to the Witches early on in the play to emphasis that he's not a good character
- "There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."
- Duncan believes that people who seem good can be evil
- Macbeth seems good but is evil
- Macbeth's descent into evil begins close to the beginning of the play
- Macbeth seems good but is evil
- Duncan believes that people who seem good can be evil
- In Act 1 Scene 4, Macbeth speaks in short sentences
- This contrasts with Duncan
- "...The loyalty I owe, In doing it, pays itself."
- Does what the old Thane of Cawdor did and hides behind false words
- "If it were done...then t'were well it were done quickly
- If he was going to kill Duncan he would want to do it as quickly as possible
- Macbeth occasionally speaks in ryhme
- Ambitious
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