Macbeth

Macbeth

1. Banquo

   • "Noble Banquo"
   • "That dauntless temper of the mind" - Brave
   • Banquo is more honourable than Macbeth
   • Banquo doesn't trust the witches

2. Macbeth

   • "Brave Macbeth"
   • "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?
     • Guilty
   • Rhetorical question
     • "A dagger of the mind, a lase creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
   • "Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill"
     • Suggest that Macbeth is questioning what the witches foretold is "good" or "ill"
     • Juxtaposition
   • His eagerness for power causes him to be killed
   • "Let not light see my black and deep desires"
     • Doesn't want anyone to know of his plans
   • "My thought, whoose murder is yet but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man"
     • This shows he is thinking of killing king Duncan, but is scared