Macbeth

Macbeth

1. Lady Macbeth is Macbeth's wife. She plays a huge role in convincing Macbeth to kill the king. At the beginning of the play she will do whatever she wants to get what she wants but toward the end she starts to fell guilty for what she has done

2. At the start of the play

   • Brave
     • The wounded sergeant bears ample testimony to his heroism when fighting against Macdonwald and Sweno.
       • "For brave Macbeth — well he deserves that name — Disdaining Fortune, with his brandish'd steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valour's minion carved out his passage Till he faced the slave."
   • Ambitious
     • That there were evil thoughts of an ambitious nature in Macbeth from the beginning we may be sure. No sooner have the witches greeted him with.
       • "I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition."
   • Kind
     • His wife knew well this feature in his character, and says of him.
       • "Yet I do fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness, To catch the nearest way.

3. As the play goes along

   • Treacherous
     • At first he regards the idea of acting treacherously to Duncan with horror.
       • "My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smother'd in surmise."
   • Imaginative
     • Throughout the play we have evidence of Macbeth's lively imagination. He imagines he sees the blood-stained dagger:
       • "Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?"