Macbeth

Macbeth

1. Ambitious

   • Macbeth will kill his closest friends in order to achieve his desires
     • Act 3, Scene 1, Line: 134-135
       • "That every minute of his being thrusts, against my nearest of life; and though I could, with barefaced power sweep him from my sight.
   • Macbeth will go against his morals, to achieve his goals
     • Act 1, Scene 7, Line:26-27
       • "Vaulting ambition, which overleaps itself and falls on the other"
   • Macbeth will not stand in the way of 'fate' crowning him king.
     • Act 1, Scene 3, Line:156-158
       • "If chance will have me King, Why, chance may crown me. Without my stir."

2. Tyranny

   • As Macduff reaches out to Malcolm for support against Macbeth, Malcolm discusses the state of Scotland and the tyrant controlling it.
     • Act 4, Scene 3, Line: 51-52
       • Of godly thousands. Nut for all this, When I shall tread upon the tyrant's head, Or wear it on my sword.."
   • Macbeth plans to murder Macduff's family, after he flees to England
     • Act 4, Scene 1, Line: 166-169
       • "The castle of Macduff I will surprise, Seize upon fife, give to the edge of the sword, His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls. That trace him in his line. No boasting like a fool!"
   • Macduff talks of the state of Scotland, as Malcom states he cannot help.
     • Act 4, Scene 3, Line: 46-49
       • It weeps, it Bleeds, and each new day a ghash is added to her wounds. I think, withal There would be hands uplifted in my right, And here from gracious England have i offer

3. gullible

   • Macbeth seeking prophecies from the witches
     • Act 3, Scene 4, Line: 159-160
       • "(And betimes I will) to the Weird sisters. More shall they speak, for now I am bent to know,"
   • Macbeth being tricked into killking king Duncan
     • Act 1, Scene 7, Line 50-51
       • "I dare do all that may become a man. Who dares do more is none."
   • Hectate decides to trick Macbeth into becoming over confident
     • ACt 3, Scene 5, Line: 28-29
       • "As by the strength of their illusion, Shall draw him on to his confusion."

4. treachery

   • Macbeth's contemplation of murdering king Duncan
     • Act 1, Scene 3, Line: 151-152
       • " My thought, whose murder is yet but fantastical, Shake so my single state of man"
   • After Killing king Duncan, Macbeth discusses hiding his true intentions with Lady Macbeth
     • Act 1, Scene 7, Line: 91-92
       • "Away, and mock the time with fairest show: False face must hide what the false hearth doth know."
   • Macbeth kills the guards, 'out of rage'
     • Act 2, Scene 3, Line: 113-114
       • "O, yet I do repent me of my fury, That I did kill them."

5. psychotic

   • The floating dagger leading towards Duncan's Chambers
     • Act 2, Scene 1, Line: 44-46
       • "Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sigh? Or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation
   • Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost in his chair and begins to rant towards the ghost
     • Act 3, Scene 4, Line:55, 61-62
       • "The table's full"
       • "Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake thy gory locks at me
   • Macbeth imagines hands plucking his eyes out, after killing king Duncan
     • Act 2, Scene 2, Line: 70-71
       • "What hands are here? Ha! They pluck out mine eyes!"