Macbeth Kingship Quotes/Analysis

• "Signs of nobleness like stars shall shine on all deservers"


  Simile of stars shows divine power indicating rewards in afterlife.Also shows his benevolence to rewards those who do good
• "Go pronounce his present death"


  Duncan is fair and punishes traitors
• "Whom i built an absoloute trust"


  Trusts people too much like the old thane of Cawdor. Dramatic Irony as Macbeth is plotting to murder him
• Macbeth is described as "Brave" and "Valour" at the beginning


  He has the ideal qualities to become a noble King
• "Nothing in love" "None serve him but the constrained things whose hearts are absent too"


  Macbeth is unorder to maintain order and trust. No love or heart is representative of his own nature. Also the dehumanisation of those who follow him show his lack of empathy
• "Offering up a weak, poor, innocent lamb"


  Malcom is checking MacDuff isn't a spy, showing his king like qualities of intelligence and that hes learned from Duncan's mistakes.Metaphor of a sacrificial ritual shows Macbeths bloodthirst
• "I think our country sinks beneath the Yoke"


  Collective pronoun and personification emphasises the importance of Scotland to Malcom showing that he is the rightful heir