Why does Macbeth kill King Duncan's two chamberlains? Why does Macbeth kill Banquo? How does Lady Macbeth's death affect Macbeth? What convinces Macbeth that he is invincible over Macduff's army?
How does the Witches' prophecy about Banquo come true? Characters Character List. Macbeth Macbeth is a Scottish general and the thane of Glamis who is led to wicked thoughts by the prophecies of the three witches, especially after their prophecy that he will be made thane of Cawdor comes true.
Read an in-depth analysis of Banquo. Read an in-depth analysis of Macduff. Hecate The goddess of witchcraft, who helps the three witches work their mischief on Macbeth.
Lennox A Scottish nobleman. Maybe that is his tragic flaw. His real intentions for being the person that he is are not obvious. His intelligence, on the other hand, is a little bit more obvious. Duncan has not shown any knowledge about a possible assassination, but still tells the people his son Malcolm is going to be the king after him Act I Scene 4.
Duncan is intelligent enough to understand that he will not be king forever. And although he has no real signs of diseases or death, there is something that drives him to the point where he officially announces that his son is going to be king before he departs to visit the person who caries the same title as his last traitor. It is ironic that the thane of Cawdor is his traitor and his murderer.
A completely different character is the direct half that murdered king Duncan. The direct half is the part of the conspiracy that actually murdered the king, the other half, the indirect part, is the person that helped thinking about and inspiring the assassination. Macbeth himself is the direct and Lady Macbeth the indirect half.
Macbeth, a worthy warrior, deals with his ambition in conjunction with his conscience. His ambition leads him to think about ideas his conscience disapproves, but since his ambition is shared by the indirect part, Lady Macbeth, his ambition conquers his conscience. How great would it be if his sons could become rulers of the country? Soon his ideas about his sons change to the idea that he could become king himself if the king would die before announcing the next king.
When Duncan does announce that Malcolm should be king after his dead, Macbeth demonstrates to the audience that this means he needs to fight him as well. But a couple lines before that he tells the king that the victory was his duty to the king. His ambition is there, he wants to be the king, now he knows he is destined to be king he feels more tendency to murder than to be loyal. Duncan also lets us think about the play's treatment of masculinity. Remember how Macbeth is always worried about being a man thanks to his wife constantly insinuating that he isn't much of one?
Well, if Macbeth thinks that being a man is all about waving a pointy stick around, Duncan doesn't seem like much of a man. Heavily idealized, this ideally protective father is nonetheless largely ineffectual: even when he is alive, he is unable to hold his kingdom together, reliant on a series of bloody men to suppress an increasingly successful series of rebellions…For Duncan's androgyny is the object of enormous ambivalence: idealized for his nurturing paternity, he is nonetheless killed for his womanish softness, his childish trust, his inability to read men's minds in their faces, his reliance on the fighting of sons who can rebel against him.
Translation: Duncan might be a good father, but he's not a very good king. He needs other men to fight his battles, and he can't even tell when those men are about to betray him. Shakespeare may not be saying that Duncan deserved to die, exactly, but does seem to be saying that we shouldn't be surprised when he does. In the Chronicles , Duncane is too "soft and gentle of nature" and is contrasted with Macbeth, who is "cruel of nature.
His language is formal and his speeches full of grace and graciousness, whether on the battlefield in Act I, Scene 2, where his talk concerns matters of honor, or when greeting his kind hostess Lady Macbeth in Act I, Scene 6. Duncan also expresses humility a feature that Macbeth lacks when he admits his failure in spotting the previous Thane of Cawdor's treachery: "There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face" I: 4, Most importantly, Duncan is the representative of God on earth, ruling by divine right ordained by God , a feature of kingship strongly endorsed by King James I, for whom the play was performed in
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