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MACBETH (CHARACTERISTICS (BRAVE / RUTHLESS / LOYAL ('valiant' and…
MACBETH
CHARACTERISTICS
BRAVE / RUTHLESS / LOYAL
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'He’s here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject' - Macbeth still sees the King's values and qualities
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‘as sparrows, eagles or the hare, the lion’ (3)
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‘point against point, rebellious arm ‘gainst arm’ (4)
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‘come, put mine armour on; give me my staff- seyton, send out-’ (90)
'For brave Macbeth- well he deserves that name' - described by the captain during the start of the play
AMBITIOUS
'If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me' - tempted to be king after listening to the prophecy from the witches
'Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires,' - afraid of his ambitious desires being known + him planning regicide with Lady Macbeth
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GUILTY / TRAUMATISED
'Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a talk told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.'
'Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.' - guilt from killing and inability of 'washing blood' off hands
'O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!' - p.47 - scorpions of the mind- referring to inner conflict + guilt
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RELATIONSHIPS
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BANQUO
FOILS OF EACH OTHER
'If you shall cleave to my consent, when 'tis/ It shall make honour for you' - Banquo is loyal and committed to the king - macbeth once was loyal to the king as well but no longer is
'May they not be my oracles as well and set me up in hope? But hush, no more.' - p/41
INITIALLY BEST FRIENDS
'The interim having weigh'd it, let us speak our free hearts each other.' - p.10
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LADY MACBETH
CHARACTERISTICS
CRUELTY
'Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty.' - p.15
'Make thick my blood, stop up th'access and passage to remorse.' - p.15 - remove the ability to feel guilty / have a moral conscience
'What hath quench'd them, hath given me fire' - p.26 - Lady Macbeth drank with the chamberlains- 'fire' - has fueled her
'My hands are of your colour, but i shame to wear a heart so white.' - p.29
'Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums and dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done this.' - p.21
TRAUMATISED / GUILTY
'The Thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now'? What, will these hands ne'er be clean?; - p.84
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SUPERNATURAL
'Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty.' - p.15
GUILT/DESTRUCTION
'Why, it stood by her. She has light by her continually, 'tis her command.' - p.84, fear of the night due to the murders committed.
;Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One, two. Why then 'tis time to do't.' - p.84 - past experiences in her sleep - recalls the striking of the bell that summoned Macbeth to kill duncan
'What, will these hands ne'er be clean?' - p.47- links back to the murder of Macduff's family and her realisation of the extent of the murders
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BANQUO
CHARACTERISTICS
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MORAL CONSCIENCE
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'And yet I would not sleep; merciful powers, restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature gives way to in repose.' - p.23 - 'cursed thoughts' the prophecy from the wtiches that are known to be poisonous to his loyalty towards the king