Personification

• Shakespeare regularly personifies Macbeth's characteristics, particularly his ambition, to emphasise how little control Macbeth has over this. It means that, as an audience, we can sympathise with him, even when he commits terrible deeds.
• Macbeth's personification of murder in 2:1 makes him seem cowardly and as though he is looking to blame someone else for the act that he is about to commit.