Characters+-+Macbeth


 * __The Characters __**
 * __Macbeth __**
 * Traitor, murderer, warrior, fallen hero, ambivalent, imaginative, weak-minded, delusional, obsessed, superficial, logical, vicious, paranoid, hero, villain, relentless, realist, greedy.


 * __Macbeth’s Key moments in the play [[image:images[3].jpg width="252" height="216" align="right"]] __**

-Hailed as a hero -Imagines witches prophesies -Ambivalent about killing King Duncan -Responds to wife’s pressure -Immediate response to actions is ‘shock’. -Arranges Banquo’s death -Leaves wife out of next events -Weird behaviour at Banquet scene -Further meeting with witches -Kills MacDuff's wife (revenge killing?) -Wants Lady MB well. No time to contemplate her death. -Kills Young Siward. -Is slain by MacDuff.

__**What can you remember about Macbeth’s key moments? **__ __**Can you recognise which of the following quotes goes with each moment? **__

“He’s here in double trust. First, as I am his kinsman and his subject.” “Duncan hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office…” “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition…”

“Is it far you ride?” “Our fears in Banquo stick deep;” “Know that it was he, in times past which held you So under fortune.’

“Avaunt and quit my sight. Let the earth hide thee. Thy bones are marrowless..” “Hence horrible shadow! Unreal mock’ry hence.”

“How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags. What is’t you do?” “Thou hast hap’d my fear aright.” “Infected be the air whereon they ride; And damn’d all those that trust them!”

“I bear a charmed life which must not yield to one of woman born.” “I will not yield to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet.”

“Two truths are told as happy prologues to the swelling act of the imperial theme.” “If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success…” “If chance will have me King, chance may crown me, without my stir.”

“Can’st thou not minister to a mind diseased,” “She should have died hereafter; there would have been time for such a word.”

“We will proceed no further in this business.” “Prithee peace, I dare do all that may become a man”

“Be innocent of the knowledge,dearest chuck.”

“For brave Macbeth –well he deserves that name -” “So they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe.”

“This is a sorry sight” (looking at his hands) ‘I’ll go no more; I am afraid to think what I have done;”

__**Finally, can you work out the key moments that show internal conflict? And the key moments of external conflict? **__