Kingship

Kingship

1. Duncan

   • good man but not a perfect king
   • overly trusting and guillible
     • misjudges the air in Macbeth's castle as 'sweet' and 'pleasant'

2. Macbeth

   • unfit to be king and dishonest
   • responisble for killing Macduff's wife and children
   • tyrant
   • "this fiend of Scotland".

3. Malcom

   • he lists the "king-becoming graces", such as justice, verity, temperance, mercy,
     • this shows how he knows how a king asks
   • he has his fathers nobility but he is not gullible
   • he restores Scotland after the disruption caused