Character arcs throughout the play

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Macbeth

  1. begins as a good man, a heroic warrior

  2. However, the darkness within him begins to rise. Encouraged by his wife, he commits regicide and becomes king.

  3. He becomes paranoid and increasingly tyrannical

  4. By the end of the play he has become a pitiful figure

  5. killed by Macduff after he realises that he was being manipulated by the witches agents all along

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Lady Macbeth

  1. Macbeth’s wife and his chief corruptor

  2. Words are her power at start of the play she effortlessly deceives and manipulates

  3. she is more ambitious for Macbeth– and she convinces him to kill Duncan

  4. After Macbeth becomes king she is marginalised from power and her husband’s love, and she becomes increasingly depressed

  5. She returns a broken woman at the start of Act 5, sleepwalking, mentally unstable, tormented by her crimes. In the end, she commits suicide

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The Witches

  1. the most malevolent forces in the play

  2. prophecy that he will become king, initiating all of the misery that follows

  3. provide a second set of prophecies which largely dictate his actions in the play’s

    climactic siege

  4. The witches know the future and their cryptic, equivocal prophecies are designed to deceive and destroy Macbeth

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Banquo

  1. begins as Macbeth’s brother-in-arms who helps him achieve his great victory

  2. he is a fearsome warrior, loved and respected by all, but he is also a more noble, cautious and level-headed man (foil)

  3. he resists any urge to act immorally to make prophecy come true.

  4. Banquo suspects that Macbeth is responsible for Duncan’s death

  5. he is killed by Macbeth’s assassins while with his son, returning to torment Macbeth as a ghost at the banquet

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Macduff

  1. is the avenging hero of the play

  2. Macduff is never onboard with Macbeth’s rule:he refuses an invitation to the banquet in Act 3 which means he has to leave Scotland in exile as a traitor

  3. When his family are slaughtered following the witches’ second prophecies, Macduff vows to get revenge

    on Macbeth

  4. Macduff fulfils the witches’ final prophecy when it is revealed that he was not “of woman born”

  5. He kills Macbeth before decapitating him and presenting his head to Malcolm

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Duncan

  1. the king of Scotland

  2. He is a good man, and full of praise and love for Macbeth and Banquo

  3. A kind and innocent man, he is much loved by his subjects, so he is unable to detect the duplicity of others.

  4. When he visits Macbeth’s castle, he is entirely oblivious to his hosts’ nefarious plans

  5. after his death he his ardently mourned by the other nobles

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Malcolm

  1. Duncan’s eldest son and the rightful heir to the throne.

  2. He is forced to flee Scotland in fear of his life and he takes refuge in the English court

  3. He leads the siege which results in Macbeth’s downfall,

  4. crowned king of Scotland at the end of the play

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Lady Macduff

  1. counterpoint to lady Macbeth

  2. she is presented as a traditional aristocratic woman but still she is presented as a spirited and empassioned woman

  3. t she is a mother and someone who loves and cares for her children, something Lady Macbeth cannot be