Macbeth

Macbeth

1. Paranoid

   • Macbeth starts to imagine seeing a dagger leading him to the king's room to kill him
     • "Is this a dagger which i see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come let me clutch thee" (2.1.33-34)
   • Macbeth hears voices after killing Ducan
     • "Melthought i heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep" (2.1.99-100)
   • When Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost , after the murders announced to him that they killed Banquo. Macbeth starts talking to the ghost in the banquet in front everyone making him look crazy
     • "Which of you have done this?" (3.4.59)
     • "A vaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee!"(3.4.111)
     • "Prithee , Prithee, see there! behold! look! lo! how say you? Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too. if charnel-houses and our graves must send Those that we bury back, our monuments Shall be the maws of kites. (3.4.80-86)

2. Ambition

   • Macbeth starts to form ambition thoughts at the begging of story , in a greedy way.When the witches greeted Macbeth in king's way telling him the prophecy
     • "All hail, Macbeth , that shalt be king hereafter!" (1.3.52)
   • After Ducan has made Macbeth , Thane of Cawdor , he's ambitious took over ant tempting him to want more by killing the king
     • "Why do i yield to that suggestion whose horrid imagine doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs, against the use of nature" (1.3.146-149)
   • When Ducan announces Malcom as the prince of cumberland , and macbeth finds himself face with a crime if the object of his ambition is to be attained
     • "That is a step on which i must fall down, or else o'erleap , for in my way it lies " (1.4.56-58)
     • "My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, shakes so my single state of man that function is smother'd in surmise " (1.3.151-153)

3. Treachery

   • Right after macbeth was named thane of cawdor. First thing that came to his mind is to murder Ducan his cousin for power
     • "My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, shakes so my single state of man that function is smother'd in surmise " (1.3.151-153)
   • After macbeth meets lady macbeth , he is convinced that he is going to kill ducan.
     • "I am settled , and bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away , and mock the time with fairest show: false face must hide what the false hearth doth know " (1.7.89-92)
   • Macbeth also shows betrayal when he orders the murders to kill he's friend Banquo
     • "So is he mine, and in such bloody distance that every minute of his being thrusts. Against nearest of life, and i though i could with bare faced power sweep him from my sight" (3.1.133-136)

4. Bravery

   • The wounde sergeant bears ample testimony to macbeth herosium when fighting against macdonwald and sweno
     • "For brave macbeth -well he deserved that name-disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel, qhich smoked with bloody excution , like valour's minion carved out his passage till he faced the slave" (1.2.18-22)
   • Ross says to the king after they're battle that macbeth was also brave
     • "Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof" (1.2.61)
   • When Macbeth talks about himself after being given the name thane of cawdor
     • "I dare do all that may become a man who dare do no more is none" (1,7,50-51)

5. Kindness

   • when lady macbeth speaks of her husband , how she is affraid that he won't do the deed because he is natural kind
     • "Yet i do fear thy nature; it is too full o'the milk of human kindness to catch thr nearest way" (1.5.14-16)
   • Macbeth is kind to the murders thinking about their revenges towards banquo and helping them and he gets a bit out of it but he is kind towards them
     • "For certain friends that are both his and mine, Whose loves I may not drop, but wail his fall Who I myself struck down; and thence it is, That I to your assistance do make love, Masking the business from the common eye For sundry weighty reasons." (3.1.138-142)