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Kingship - Coggle Diagram

- - - - shows Duncan's kindness and respect as a king for his Thanes as he greets Macbeth
        
        presenting him to be a good king
  - - - shows Duncan's modesty as a king
        
        the image of a new-born baby suggests purity and innocence
- - - - Malcolm describes the characteristics of Macbeth that make him a bad king
  - - - the chain of being and divine right of King's is disrupted which suggest that Duncan's murder and Macbeth's rise to become king are against nature
- - - - the natural order has been reestablished as the devine right of Kings
        
        Malcolm is guided by God, not evil like Macbeth
        
        when Malcolm says he will do what’s needed in ‘measure, time, and place’, the commas force the actor to pause, slow down and fully savour the moment, letting the audience breathe a collective sigh of relief
  - - - after Macbeth's death, Malcolm takes on the formal language of kingship, exchanging the personal pronoun ‘I’ for the royal ‘we’
      - Malcolm echoes the language used by his father, repairing the bloodline that was cut when Macbeth seized the throne
      - Malcolm’s words seem deliberately measured and precise after Macbeth’s excesses. He uses financial language, before he reckons up the love of his thanes, and repays what he owes. Similarly Duncan expresses his gratitude in terms of debt and ‘payment’