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1. Invokes forces of evil without thinking through the consequences

   • "Unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty"
   • Prepared to do anything
   • Single-mindness is both strength and weakness

2. Never wonders why Macbeth doesn't want to go through with the murder

   • Insults Macbeth
     • "Art Thou afeard?"
   • Emotional Blackmail
   • Refuses to consider moral/spirtual implications
   • Does not entertain any ideas of failure
     • "But screw your courage to the sticking place, and we'll not fail"

3. Unimaginative Plan

   • Almost childish in its simplicity
   • Implausible

4. Does not think about the murder

   • "a little water clears us of this deed"

5. Realistic Character

   • Banquo's ghost is a figment of M imagination
   • Realistic as M is imagiantive

6. No soliloquys

   • No capicity for deep though

7. Pays the price for simple single-minded and unthinking approach

   • Loses all sanity
   • We see her imagination when haunted by a speck of blood on her hands

8. Reaction to The Witches'

   • Wonders if the prophecies can be good when he finds himself succumbing to evil thoughts
     • "Why do I yield to that suggestion"

9. Considers his reasons for killing Duncan

   • Anticipates moral and spiritual consequences
   • Wishes the murder could be committed without consequences
   • Reflects on his responsibilities as Duncan's subject, cousin and host
   • "Vaulting Ambition"

10. Feelings of guilt and remorse

    • Blood covered hands turning the green seas red
    • Wishes the knocking on the gate would wake Duncan

11. Troubled conscience expresses itself through vivid imagination

    • Floating Dagger
    • Hears voices in Duncan's chamber
      • "Shall sleep no more"
    • Ghost of Banquo

12. Slaughter of Macduff's family is an appalling atrocity and suggests M is devoid of all humanity

    • Impulsive, carried out before M conscience has time to trouble him
    • Although reluctant to fight Macduff
      • "My soul is too much charged with the blood of thine already"

13. Final Soliloquy

    • "Fallen into the sere"
    • His ambition has cost him "honour, love, obedience, troops of friends"
    • M is truly a complicated character. He is a battle-hardened warrior and a ruthless tyrant, yet he has a philosophical disposition and sometimes uses language that is almost poetic
      • "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more"