Macbeth: Character of Macbeth

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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
      • "O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!"
        • Other characters think highly of Macbeth
          • Gives the audience a good first impression of Macbeth
      • "Speak if you can..."
    • 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
      • "...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
    • 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
      • 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
      • 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

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