Macduff

• "Let's make us medicines of our great revenge/ to cure this deadly grief" - Act 4, Theme= Violence

  • "medicine" and "revenge" solve/cure anything
  • Uses this to solve/ cure his insurmountable grief, make Macbeth accountable
  • His violence is justified and he still remains a hero
• "Here you may see the tyrant" - Act 5, Theme= Ambition

  • First character to explicitly brand Macbeth as a tyrant
  • Motivated ambition to extinguish Macbeth
  • This is the last thing Macbeth hears before he died
  • End of Macbeth's destruction and the beginning of restoration order
• "Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope the Lord's anoited temple" - Act 2, Theme= Appearance vs reality

  • Macduff is entirely dedicated to the King
  • Hyperbolic language reinforces this and abides to religious moral code
  • Religious semantic field "sacrilegious" "anoited" creates sacred/ holy image
  • Reinforces that the King is chosen by God, Macbeth murdered despite being holy