Lady Macduff


	Personality	Role
	stereotypical woman loving caring protective of her children motherly dependent on her husband	acts as a foil for lady macbeth antithesis of lady macbeth to show the contrast between the two very different women and show how unstereotypical lady macbeth is show how stereotypical lady macbeth is show the extent of macbeths malice - he has delved so deep into evil he is not only killing people to achieve his ambitions but now for no reason, more immoral deepens macduff's desire to kill macbeth shows macbeth no longer has to be persuaded by his wife
	Development (Growth & change)	Other information
		'how will you live?' stage direction 'crying' shows weakness and stereotypical feminine characteristics 'to leave his wife and babes' shows shes annoyed with macduff for leaving her and her children because shes so dependent on him and needs support from him

acts as a foil for lady macbeth
antithesis of lady macbeth to show the contrast between the two very different women and show how unstereotypical lady macbeth is
show how stereotypical lady macbeth is
show the extent of macbeths malice - he has delved so deep into evil he is not only killing people to achieve his ambitions but now for no reason, more immoral
deepens macduff's desire to kill macbeth
shows macbeth no longer has to be persuaded by his wife

'how will you live?'
stage direction 'crying' shows weakness and stereotypical feminine characteristics
'to leave his wife and babes' shows shes annoyed with macduff for leaving her and her children because shes so dependent on him and needs support from him

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