How shakespeare presents Kingship

Question 1

Para 1: Kingship seen as divinely ordained (when duncan dies, Scotland goes to ruin)

Answer 1

‘Some say the Earth/ was feverous and did shake.’

Question 2

Para 1: Kingship seen as divinely ordained (when duncan dies, Scotland goes to ruin)

Answer 2

‘O nation miserable/ With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptered.”

Question 3

Para 2: Duncan and Macbeth presented as flawed foils- Duncan a weak but trusting king, Macbeth a strong but ruthless tyrant.

Answer 3

‘There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.”

Question 4

Para 2: Duncan and Macbeth presented as flawed foils- Duncan a weak but trusting king, Macbeth a strong but ruthless tyrant.

Answer 4

‘Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen.”

Question 5

Para 3: Malcolm creates a better version of king- merciful but shrewd.

Answer 5

‘He’s worth more sorrow, and that I’ll spend for him.”

Question 6

Para 3: Malcolm creates a better version of king- merciful but shrewd.

Answer 6

‘Never was forsworn/ scarcely have coveted what was mine own, At no time broke my faith.”