How shakespeare presents Macduff

Question 1

Para 1: Foil to Macbeth (loyal to his country and rightful king, not power hungry)

Answer 1

‘Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope/ The Lord’s anointed temple.’

Question 2

Para 1: Foil to Macbeth (loyal to his country and rightful king, not power hungry)

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Para 2: Flawed but a loving husband and father

Answer 3

‘What, all my pretty chickens and their dam/ at one fell swoop?’

Question 4

Para 2: Flawed but a loving husband and father

Answer 4

‘Fathered he is, and yet he’s fatherless.’

Question 5

Para 3: Instrumental in bringing about Macbeth’s downfall and the rightful order

Answer 5

‘No man of woman born.’

Question 6

Para 3: Instrumental in bringing about Macbeth’s downfall and the rightful order

Answer 6

‘If thou beest slain, and with no stroke of mine,/ My wife and children’s ghosts will haunt me still.