Macbeth Character Anaysis

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Created by: Louisecurtin9
Created on: 28-03-18 16:43


	Personality	Role
	warrior, thane of glamis kind nature at first easily manipulated by his wife, and witches has a fatal flaw in that he is human and is placed between the witches(evil), and God (good) valiant, brave becomes ambitious, greedy for power, selfish Macbeth becomes a mass murderer and is ultimately defeated by good	thane of glamis who defeats the armies who rebelled against king Duncan meets 3 witches and is the main protagonist in the play plots with his wife to murder the king and rule the throne arranges for friend Banquo to be murdered out of fear that his children will be kings (from witches prophecies) has macduff's family killed ultimately cornered by English and Scottish forces and killed by macduff
	Development (Growth & change)	Other information
	at first he is a mighty warrior who pleases the king and is rewarded after hearing prophecies from witches he becomes obsessed with power his ambition drives hm to become a brutal mass murderer ('this dead butcher') his wife fears he may be to kind to kill the king ('I do fear thy nature; it is too full o'the milk of human kindness.') there is a shift from him loving his wife and being a warrior to him being a treacherous mass murderer this shows how supernatural and evil forces of his wife and the witches have taken over him, and he is not a wholly bad person this makes the play a tragedy, it is the tragedy of Macbeth which shows he was not fully evil - it was a tragic progression and it was not certain to happen	he becomes more and more ambitious as the witches prophecies come true when Banquo observes that the prophecies have come true he begins to suspect Macbeth has been dishonest the link between the witches and Macbeth show how he is taken over by evil and greed. tempted by witches message ('would they had stayed') shows how good ultimately conquers evil

Personality

Role

warrior, thane of glamis
kind nature at first
easily manipulated by his wife, and witches
has a fatal flaw in that he is human and is placed between the witches(evil), and God (good)
valiant, brave
becomes ambitious, greedy for power, selfish
Macbeth becomes a mass murderer and is ultimately defeated by good

thane of glamis who defeats the armies who rebelled against king Duncan
meets 3 witches and is the main protagonist in the play
plots with his wife to murder the king and rule the throne
arranges for friend Banquo to be murdered out of fear that his children will be kings (from witches prophecies)
has macduff's family killed
ultimately cornered by English and Scottish forces and killed by macduff

Development (Growth & change)

Other information

at first he is a mighty warrior who pleases the king and is rewarded
after hearing prophecies from witches he becomes obsessed with power
his ambition drives hm to become a brutal mass murderer ('this dead butcher')
his wife fears he may be to kind to kill the king ('I do fear thy nature; it is too full o'the milk of human kindness.')
there is a shift from him loving his wife and being a warrior to him being a treacherous mass murderer
this shows how supernatural and evil forces of his wife and the witches have taken over him, and he is not a wholly bad person
this makes the play a tragedy, it is the tragedy of Macbeth which shows he was not fully evil - it was a tragic progression and it was not certain to happen

he becomes more and more ambitious as the witches prophecies come true
when Banquo observes that the prophecies have come true he begins to suspect Macbeth has been dishonest
the link between the witches and Macbeth show how he is taken over by evil and greed.
tempted by witches message ('would they had stayed')
shows how good ultimately conquers evil