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Macbeth
begins as a good man, a heroic warrior
However, the darkness within him begins to rise. Encouraged by his wife, he commits regicide and becomes king.
He becomes paranoid and increasingly tyrannical
By the end of the play he has become a pitiful figure
killed by Macduff after he realises that he was being manipulated by the witches agents all along
Lady Macbeth
Macbeth’s wife and his chief corruptor
Words are her power at start of the play she effortlessly deceives and manipulates
she is more ambitious for Macbeth– and she convinces him to kill Duncan
After Macbeth becomes king she is marginalised from power and her husband’s love, and she becomes increasingly depressed
She returns a broken woman at the start of Act 5, sleepwalking, mentally unstable, tormented by her crimes. In the end, she commits suicide
The Witches
the most malevolent forces in the play
prophecy that he will become king, initiating all of the misery that follows
provide a second set of prophecies which largely dictate his actions in the play’s
climactic siege
The witches know the future and their cryptic, equivocal prophecies are designed to deceive and destroy Macbeth
Banquo
begins as Macbeth’s brother-in-arms who helps him achieve his great victory
he is a fearsome warrior, loved and respected by all, but he is also a more noble, cautious and level-headed man (foil)
he resists any urge to act immorally to make prophecy come true.
Banquo suspects that Macbeth is responsible for Duncan’s death
he is killed by Macbeth’s assassins while with his son, returning to torment Macbeth as a ghost at the banquet
Macduff
is the avenging hero of the play
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
When his family are slaughtered following the witches’ second prophecies, Macduff vows to get revenge
on Macbeth
Macduff fulfils the witches’ final prophecy when it is revealed that he was not “of woman born”
He kills Macbeth before decapitating him and presenting his head to Malcolm
Duncan
the king of Scotland
He is a good man, and full of praise and love for Macbeth and Banquo
A kind and innocent man, he is much loved by his subjects, so he is unable to detect the duplicity of others.
When he visits Macbeth’s castle, he is entirely oblivious to his hosts’ nefarious plans
after his death he his ardently mourned by the other nobles
Malcolm
Duncan’s eldest son and the rightful heir to the throne.
He is forced to flee Scotland in fear of his life and he takes refuge in the English court
He leads the siege which results in Macbeth’s downfall,
crowned king of Scotland at the end of the play
Lady Macduff
counterpoint to lady Macbeth
she is presented as a traditional aristocratic woman but still she is presented as a spirited and empassioned woman
t she is a mother and someone who loves and cares for her children, something Lady Macbeth cannot be