Macduff

• "O horror,horror,horror!.. Awake, awake! Ring the Alarm bell. Murder and Treason!"- Act 2, Scene 3.

  • Macduff's first appearance.
  • A loyal subject of the crown.
  • Shocked that someone killed the appointed king
  • Macbeth tries to Match the fake distress but audience see it as more fake.
  • He's hesitant to be loyal to the new king Macbeth.
• "Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff!"- Act 4,Scene 1

  • The Witches tell Macbeth to be aware.
  • Which Puts Macduff into Macbeth's murderous intentions
  • Macbeth then decides to hire the murderers to slaughter his wife and children while Macduff has visited Malcolm. Macduff's son "He has killedme, mother.Run away, I pray you."
• "Not in the legions of horrid hell can come a devil more damned in evils to top Macbeth."

  • Horrid hells, Devils - Associate Macbeth as a dark evil spirit.
  • Loyal towards his country "O nation miserable,with an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptered."
  • Shows Macduff's desire for justice
  • Opposition to Macbeth which motive is selfish.
• "All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O hell-Kite! All?"- Act 4,Scene 3

  • Macduff hearing the news of his family.
  • Malcolm tells him to "dispute it like a man."
  • Macuff replies with "I shall do so, but also feel it like a man."
  • Shows the difference of emotional response between Macduff and Macbeth with their family loses.
  • Macbeth was "She should have died hereafter."
• "Tell thee Macduff was from his mother’s womb Untimely ripped." -Act 5, Scene 8

  • Macduff was the only man who killed Macbeth
  • He was born through a c-section not a natural birth.
  • Which allows him to defeat Macbeth.
  • Macduff and Macbeth are different and has no ambition for the crown.