Macduff Flashcards
reaction to Duncan’s death
3
‘O horror, horror, horror’
‘most sacrilegious murder’
‘murder and treason’
Macduff suspicion of Macbeth - foreshadow of their relationship
(3)
‘those Macbeth hath slain’
‘he is already named and gone to Scone to be invested’
‘No, cousin, I’ll to Fife’
how Macduff is viewed - irony to Macbeth
2
‘good Macduff’
‘worthy Macduff’
What he calls Macbeth - act 5 scene 8
‘turn hell-hound turn’
guilt
4
‘my children too?’,
‘my wife kill’d too?’
‘all my pretty chickens’
RESULT: ‘front to front…within my sword’s length’
loyalty and trust
3
‘bleed, bleed poor country’
replies: ‘take upon you what is yours’, ‘yet do not fear’
‘lost my hopes’
masculinity
3
‘I shall do so/But I must also feel it as a man’
‘O, I could play the women with mine eyes/And braggart with my tongue’