characters. duncan king of scotland good guy liked by his people too trusting – has blind faith
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CharactersCharacters
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DuncanDuncan
King of Scotland Good guy Liked by his people Too trusting – has
blind faith
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MacbethMacbeth
Thane of Glamis Thane of Cawdor King of Scotland Basically good,
loyal, moral Blindly ambitious Too much
influenced by his wife
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Lady MacbethLady Macbeth
Ambitious Immoral Rids herself of
every hint of kindness or traditional femininity
Eventually smothered by her resurfacing conscience
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BanquoBanquo
Thane of Lochaber General in the
King’s Army Foil to Macbeth Retains his morals
and loyalty Hears the witches’
prophecy as well, but reacts differently.
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MacduffMacduff
Thane of Fife Nobleman of
Scotland Mistrusts Macbeth
immediately Plays the avenger
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MalcolmMalcolm
Elder son of Duncan
Good king Uses deception
only to insure the safety of Scotland
17-18 years old
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DonalbainDonalbain
Younger son of Duncan
Runs to Ireland after Duncan’s murder
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LennoxLennox
Nobleman of Scotland
One of Duncan’s nobles.
Provides sarcastic replies for Macbeth’s playacting of innocence.
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Ross Ross
Macduff’s cousin Acts as a
messenger
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SiwardSiward
Earl of Northumberland
General of the English forces
Ally of Malcolm and Macduff
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Young SiwardYoung Siward
Son of Siward Slain by Macbeth in
hand to hand combat
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SeytonSeyton
Macbeth’s lieutenant
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HecateHecate
Queen of Witches Directs all the
supernatural happenings in the play
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The Three WitchesThe Three Witches
Add the elements of supernatural and prophecy to the play.
They each have “familiars” – animals that are the embodiments of their demonic consorts
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The PorterThe Porter
Keeper of Macbeth’s Castle
He is a DRUNK He imagines he is
the keeper of Hell’s Gate
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Lady MacduffLady Macduff
Very good wife and mother
Murdered by assassins sent by Macbeth
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FleanceFleance
Banquo’s son Tries to fight the
assassins when they murder his father
Escapes to father a line of Kings of England and Scotland.
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Menteith, Angus, CaithnessMenteith, Angus, Caithness
Noblemen of Scotland
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Literary DevicesLiterary Devices
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AllusionAllusion
A reference to another work or belief system within a literary work
The sergeant compares the bloody battlefield to Golgotha – the place of Christ’s death in the New Testament
Macduff compares Duncan’s corpse to a Gorgon because it is so terrible that it petrifies people who look at it.
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Figurative LanguageFigurative LanguageSimilesSimiles
Similes compare two unlike things using the words like or as, or such, etc.
“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.” Lady Macbeth (I, v)
“Your face, my Thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters.”
– Lady Macbeth (I, v)
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Figurative LanguageFigurative LanguageMetaphorsMetaphors
Metaphors compare two
unlike things without using the words like or as, or such, etc.
“ I have begun to plant thee and will labor to make thee full of growing.” – Duncan (I, iv)
“Why do you dress me in borrowed clothes?” Macbeth (I, iii)
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Figurative LanguageFigurative LanguagePersonificationPersonification
Personification is when the writer gives human qualities to non-human things.
“If chance will have me King, why, chance may crown me without my stir.” - Macbeth (I, iii)
“Was the hope drunk wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since?” – Lady Macbeth (I, vii, 35)
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AlliterationAlliteration
Alliteration is the use of repeating consonant sounds.
“But now am I cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in to saucy doubts and fears.” Macbeth (III, iv, 24)
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SymbolSymbol A person, place,
thing, or event that stands both for itself and something else.
A ring, a flag, a flower are all used as symbols today.
The nesting martlets Banquo notes are supposed to be a good omen, but they are a foul omen for Duncan if he spends the night, or “nests” at Macbeth’s castle.
(I, vi, 3)
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ForeshadowingForeshadowing Foreshadowin
g is the use of clues to hint at what is going to happen later in the plot.
Fair is foul, and foul is fair
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Dramatic IronyDramatic Irony Dramatic irony occurs
when the reader or audience knows something important that a character in a work does not.
Obi-wan saying to the teenage Anakin, “You’re going to be the death of me one day.”
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LanguageLanguage
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Blank VerseBlank Verse Poetry written in
unrhymed iambic pentameter.
An iamb is a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
Five iambs make a line of iambic pentameter.
“Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts. Lady Macbeth (I, v, 39)
Lady Macbeth’s speech uses iambic pentameter more than Macbeth’s does. In this way, Shakespeare reinforces the erratic nature of Macbeth’s thought.
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Rhymed CoupletRhymed Couplet
Is used to let the Elizabethan audience know that a scene was over.
Keep in mind that there were no lights to fade or curtains to draw.
“Away, and mock the time with fairest show: False face must hide what false heart doth know.” Macbeth (I, vii, 82)
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DictionDiction
A writer’s or a speaker’s choice of words
“Out damned spot! Out I say!! One:Two: why, then ‘tis time to do’t. Hell is murky. Lady Macbeth (V, I, 31)
“ The Thane of Fife had a wife, Where is she now? What, will these hands ne’er be clean? No more o’ that, my lord, no more o’ that! You mar all this with starting.” Lady Macbeth (V, I, 36)
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Act IAct I
Three witches meet Macbeth and Banquo on the heath as the men return from battle. They predict that Macbeth will be named Thane of Cawdor and King of Scotland and that Banquo will be the father of kings. The witches vanish.
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Act IAct I
Ross enters to greet Macbeth with the title of Cawdor, the traitor whom King Duncan has determined must be executed and whose title and lands will be given to Macbeth.
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Act IAct I
This immediate "earnest of success commencing in a truth" causes Macbeth to consider the extent of his ambition and Banquo to warn that predictions are often harmful as well as beneficial. (iii.)
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Act IAct I
Announcing that his eldest son, Malcolm, is to be his heir, Duncan states his intention to visit Macbeth's castle, Glamis. (iv.)
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Act IAct I
When Lady Macbeth reads the letter Macbeth has sent ahead, she determines her husband must take advantage of the opportunity Duncan's forthcoming visit offers as a way of fulfilling the prophecy.
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Act IAct I
However, she fears that though Macbeth is "not without ambition," he is "too full o' th' milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way." (v.)
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Act IAct I
Macbeth is not as determined as his lady about the need for murder. He considers reasons he should defend rather than threaten the life of his king.
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Act IAct I
Lady Macbeth remains adamant and pressures him with attacks on his manhood as well as reminders of their feelings for each other. She convinces Macbeth to proceed by presenting her plan to drug Duncan's guards and leave evidence that will implicate them in the crime. (vii.)
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Act IIAct II
Macbeth sees a "dagger of the mind" leading him towards Duncan's chamber. (1.) Lady Macbeth has drugged the guards, noting that Duncan's resemblance to her father has stayed her from doing the deed herself.
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Act IIAct II
After the murder, Macbeth carries the bloody daggers from the chamber causing Lady Macbeth to reprimand him for his great show of emotion. After she returns the daggers and smears the guards with blood, she tells Macbeth, "a little water clears us of this deed." (ii.)
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Act IIAct II
The porter pretends he is keeping Hell’s gate, creating a comic relief scene with his imaginings. He answers each knock as if it from a soul sent to Hell.
“Faith! Here’s an English tailor, come hither for stealing out of a French hose: Come in, tailor! Here you may roast your goose!”
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Act IIAct II
Macduff discovers the body, and Macbeth kills the guards, explaining the act as his overwrought response to their unjust offense.
Duncan
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Act IIAct II
Duncan's sons realize their danger and decide that Malcolm will go to England and Donalbain will go to Ireland. (iii.) Their flight makes them suspect, and Macbeth is crowned King of Scotland. (iv.)
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Act IIIAct III
Macbeth plans to overturn the witches' prophecy that Banquo's sons will become kings by sending two murderers to kill both Banquo and his son, Fleance. (i.) Macbeth no longer needs Lady Macbeth's involvement and bids her be "innocent of the knowledge" of his decisions. (ii.)
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Act IIIAct III
A third murderer, obviously not known by the other two, joins them, and although Banquo is slain, Fleance escapes. (iii.)
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Act IIIAct III
At the banquet, Macbeth is terrified by the bloody ghost of Banquo. Since no one else sees the apparition, Lady Macbeth attempts to excuse his behavior and eventually has to end the banquet. Macbeth determines to visit the witches again. (iv.)
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Act IIIAct III
Suspicion of Macbeth is mounting, and Macduff joins Malcolm in England. (vi.)
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Act IVAct IV
The witches show Macbeth three apparitions which warn him to beware Macduff, promise him that "none of woman born shall harm Macbeth," and assure him he will remain safe until Birnam Wood moves.
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Act IVAct IV
He feels comforted by these prophecies without seeing their double meaning but is shaken by a vision of Banquo and his eight descendants. (I.)
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Act IVAct IV
Malcolm tests Macduff's loyalty to Scotland, and they plan strategy with English forces to oust Macbeth. (iii.)
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Act IVAct IV
Meanwhile, Macbeth has Lady Macduff and all her children slain. (ii.)
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Act VAct V
Lady Macbeth, while sleepwalking, reveals her knowledge of the deaths of Duncan, Lady Macduff, and Banquo.
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Act VAct V
Her continual washing of her hands cannot ease her dread or make her feel cleansed. The doctor and attendant realize they cannot help her. (i.)
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Act VAct V
Macbeth is too involved with battle preparations against Malcolm and English and Scottish troops to spend much time considering his wife's dreams. (iii.)
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Act VAct VWhen he hears of Lady
Macbeth's death, he contemplates that life is "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
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Act VAct V
He reassures himself with the predictions only to see the woods advance when Malcolm's soldiers camouflage themselves with boughs from Birnam Wood. (v.)
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Act V Act V
Macbeth sees the ambiguity of the predictions but goes stubbornly into battle.
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Act VAct V
He kills young Siward who dies fearlessly (vii.) and then faces Macduff who tells him that he was not "of woman born" but was "untimely ripped" from his mother's womb.
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Act VAct V
Finally realizing the true implications of the predictions, Macbeth refuses to yield to Macduff and face capture and ridicule. He confronts Macduff and stubbornly fights to the death.
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Act VAct V
Macduff displays the "usurper's cursed head" and acclaims Malcolm the new King of Scotland. (viii.)
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ThemesThemes
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Things Are Not What They Things Are Not What They SeemSeem
Many things have double or hidden meanings
Many things don’t turn out the way we expect them too
The witches’ prophecies are misleading – causing great pain and destruction
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The Corruption of PowerThe Corruption of Power
When people use evil means to gain power, they covet more power and resort to more evil and crueler methods to gain it.
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Blind AmbitionBlind Ambition
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Superstition and Its Effects Superstition and Its Effects on Human Natureon Human Nature