How shakespeare presents Malcolm and Donalbain

Question 1

Para 1: Rightful heirs to the throne (Malcolm’s absence on the throne allows Scotland to go to ruin as the natural order has been disrupted)

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Para 1: Rightful heirs to the throne (Malcolm’s absence on the throne allows Scotland to go to ruin as the natural order has been disrupted)

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Para 2: Malcolm is seen as more shrewd and clever than duncan, testing Macduff’s loyalty

Answer 3

‘Fit to govern?/No, not to live.’

Question 4

Para 2: Malcolm is seen as more shrewd and clever than duncan, testing Macduff’s loyalty

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Para 3: Malcolm is seen as kind and just. a better king than Macbeth

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Para 3: Malcolm is seen as kind and just. a better king than Macbeth

Answer 6

‘Third Apparition, a Child Crowned, with a tree in his hand.’