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MACDUFF (BASICALLY (He is the Thane of Fife, He is loyal to King Duncan…
MACDUFF
BASICALLY
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ACT 1 SCENE 6 - introduction to the play, but he has no lines in this scene. Other characters are praising Macbeth but Macduff is silent
ACT 2 SCENE 3 - discovers that Duncan has been murdered. "O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart / Cannot conceive nor name thee! ... Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope / The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence / The life o' the building"
When Lady Macbeth enters he says "gentle lady" suggesting a woman's nature is too gentle to bear the sight of Duncan - dramatic irony and an irony in the initial emotions of the two
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Macbeth then makes a speech about Duncan and pivotally is Macduff who mentions the murdering of the guards. He asks why Macbeth would do that. "Wherefore did you so?"
He also notices Lady Macbeth faint, "Look to the lady."
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He also says that Malcolm and Donalbain have placed suspicion on themselves by fleeing "They were suborned. / Malcolm and Donalbain, the king;'s two sobs, / Are stol'n away and fled, which puts upon them / Suspicion in the deed"
He then says he will go home to Fife and his family instead of going to see the coronation, "I'll to Fife"
ACT 4 SCENE 3 - MACDUFF IN ENGLAND WITH MALCOLM. We learned earlier that Macduff refused to help Macbeth when Malcolm gathered forces. Macduff makes an allegiance with Malcolm
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"O horror, horror, horror! / Tongue nor heart can conceive nor name thee! ... Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope / The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence / The life o' th' building"
As a character who has little to say, Macduff holds power when he does speak
We see how emotional he is upon discovering the death of Duncan which is shown by the triple "horror"
He states that the King is the "Lord's anointed temple" showing he believes that the King receive their power directly from God - reference to the Great Chain of Being
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His belief in the Great Chain of Being highlights his loyalty, as he was not going to betray Duncan as he would disrupt God's order
"Bountless intemperance / In nature is a tyranny. It hath been / The untimely emptying of the happy throne / And fall of many kings"
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The metaphor "untimely emptying of the happy thrones" outlines the result of his tyranny. outlines the result of "untimely seemingly refers to the disorder of the Divine Right In Kings "
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SIGMUND FREUD
Freud concluded. It would be a perfect example of poetic justice if Macbeth could not become a father because he robbed children of their children of their father and a father of his children. And if Lady Macbeth had suffered the unsexing she had demanded for
This could explain the illness of Lady Macbeth, the transformation of her callousness into penitence, as a reaction to her childlessness, by which she is convinced of her great impotence against the decrees of nature, and at the same time admonished that she has only herself if her crime has been barren of the better part of the desired resultt
The recent death of the childless Elizabeth provided the occasion for the play, the witches prophecies gave the crown to Banquo's children. Macbeth's hope of children. is defeated and Macbeth's shattering cry "He has no children"
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"The great doom's image! Malcolm! Banquo! / As from your graves rise up, and walk like sprites, / To countenance this horror"
Simile "As from your graves rise up, and walk like sprites" urges Malcolm and Banquo to see what has happened. Foreshadowing in the reference to Banquo being a ghost - reminder of the supernatural elements
"Doom" links to doomsday and the end of time, expresses Macduff's utter disbelief, his loyalty and his grief"
Links back to the Great Chain of Being - the disruption is causing Macduff to feel so destroyed by it that he refers the the end of time - when God is meant to judge us all
"Approach the chamber and destroy your site / With a new Gorgon. Do not bid me speak / See, and then speak yourselves"
Reference to "Gorgon" the idea that seeing Duncan dead will freeze people with "horror" has a link to the gorgon Medusa who turned people to stone if they looked directly at her
Gorgons are mythological creatures perhaps emphasising Macduff's despair also the Medusa link has connotations with instant death
The earlier, "Ring the alarum bell" - warning almost echoes the "knocking" at the gate. This is important and acts as a symbol for the outside world intruding on the murder
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