Duty Macbeth

Duty Macbeth

1. Act 1 sn 3

   • Lang devices
     • Humble tone
       • Duncan acknowledges that he should have noticed the traitors betrayal before hand.
         • "Whom I built trust"
     • Religious imagery
       • "The sin of my ingratitude"
         • He knows that his failure has lost him many men. Scotland couldn't afford to fight more wars.
     • "our duties are to your throne and state children"
       • Duty to protect everyone.
   • Content
     • Duncan and Macbeth discuss the traitor and how Duncan could have prevented it.
   • Context
     • Audience see Macbeth as manipulative.
   • Structure
     • Irony as Macbeth will betray Duncan much like the previous thane of Cawdor.

2. Whole

   • Content
     • Many characters carry out their duties. Macduff feels as though he has to free Scotland from Macbeth.
   • "My heir shall be Malcolm"
     • By naming Malcolm as is heir he is preventing Scotland from another bloody war.
   • "like good men/ bestride our downfall birthdom"
     • Macduff sees it as a good mans duty to free his country from the tyranny of Macbeth.,