Characters in Macbeth
Character List:
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Minor Characters:
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Lady Macbeth:
Most Evil Character:
"Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty." (1.5.47-50)
A Manipulator:
"When you durst do it, then you were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man." (1.7.56-58)
Character Analysis
"Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty." (1.5.47-50)
A Manipulator:
"When you durst do it, then you were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man." (1.7.56-58)
Character Analysis
- Antagonist
- Major character
- Foil
- Dynamic character (strong to weak)
Macbeth:
"If good, why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature?"(1.3.143-150)
Weird Sisters:
Character Analysis
Stereotypical
"What are these, so wither'd and so wild in their attire?" (1.3.40-41)
"I myself have all the other, and the very ports they blow, all the quarters that they know I'th' shipman's card. I'll drain him dry as hay. Sleep shall neither night nor day hang upon his penthouse lid." (1.3.15-21)
Duncan:
Character Analysis
Stereotypical
Character Analysis
- Antagonists
- Major characters
- Stereotypical
- Static
Stereotypical
- Unattractive
- evil acts of magic
"What are these, so wither'd and so wild in their attire?" (1.3.40-41)
"I myself have all the other, and the very ports they blow, all the quarters that they know I'th' shipman's card. I'll drain him dry as hay. Sleep shall neither night nor day hang upon his penthouse lid." (1.3.15-21)
Duncan:
Character Analysis
- Protagonist
- Major
- Stereotypical
- Static
Stereotypical
- Loved by all
- Kind
- Good king