How Shakespeare presents Macduff’s family

Question 1

Para 1: Foil to Macbeth’s lack of a family (shows M+LM as unnatural, lacking a motive for kingship beyond their own power as they can’t pass it on etc)

Answer 1

‘Bring forth men-children only.’

Question 2

Para 1: Foil to Macbeth’s lack of a family (shows M+LM as unnatural, lacking a motive for kingship beyond their own power as they can’t pass it on etc)

Answer 2

‘For Banquo’s issue have I filed my mind/ For them the gracious Duncan have I murdered.’

Question 3

Para 2: Creates pathos for those Macbeth brutally kills

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Para 2: Creates pathos for those Macbeth brutally kills

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Para 3: Motivates Macduff to kill Macbeth, thus reinstating the rightful order of things

Answer 5

‘No man of woman born.’

Question 6

Para 3: Motivates Macduff to kill Macbeth, thus reinstating the rightful order of things

Answer 6

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