Duncan character quotations✅

who even is duncan lets be deadass

d p c f

Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude

Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude

• Qualities of an ideal king

• Contrast between Malcolm and Macbeth, as Macbeth lacks these

i w i b

It weeps it bleeds

It weeps it bleeds

• Connotes emotional and physical agony, personifying Scotland as an injured, suffering creature

• Shows Malcolm’s love for Scotland and how he feels it is dying under Macbeth’s rule

T t w s n b o t w o t h

This tyrant, whose sole name blistered our tongues, was once thought honest

This tyrant, whose sole name blistered our tongues, was once thought honest

• Juxtaposition between tyranny and honesty shows Macbeth’s dramatic change

• Shows how Duncan’s hamartia was his trusting nature, and the betrayal he faced as a result