Macduff

Question 1

Macduff is presented as a devoted and loving character

Answer 1

-“All my pretty ones”
-“I must also feel it as a man”
-“Bleed bleed poor country”, “Oh nation miserable!”

Question 2

Technique, Zoom, Context

“All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O hell-Kite”

Act 4, Scene 3

Macduff (after family is slaughtered)

Answer 2

-Rhetorical questions, emphatic, emphasises lost for words + devestation
- “My” possesive, pathas
- “Pretty”—> beautiful and delicate —> innocence and love
- genuine love rather than the utalitarian families of the day
- “O” emphatic, grief
- “Hell-kite” sinful, fire, eternal suffering, associate macbeth with devil

Utalitarian family, use and status not love

Question 3

Technique x2, Stress x2, zoom

“I must also feel it as a man”

Act 4, Scene 3

Answer 3

-Model verb “must” is expressive
-Simile-
-Iambic stress on feel and man —> associate
- “Feel” an emotional state of reaction

shakespeare acknowledges that feeling is not weak and “womanly” like belived at the time

feeling is but a natural human reaction we should all indulge in

Question 4

“Bleed bleed poor country”
“Oh nation miserable!”

Act 4, Scene 3

Answer 4

-Repetition—> emphasise suffering
-Plosive “b” harsh —-> suffering pain and violence
-Personification —> seem alive, pathas for scotland
-Excalamtive + emphatic “o” —> distress
- “Poor” one deserving pity/ empathy
pathas

Question 5

Macduff is presented to be an unforgiving and avenging character

Answer 5

-“Oh sacriligious murder”
-“Turn hell hound turn”
-“I have no words, my voice is my sword”

Question 6

“Most sacriligious murder”

Act 2, Scene 3

Macduff (Duncans death)

Answer 6

-Superlative—> symbolises how duncan was regarded as godly, his death is the most horrific

• “Sacriligious” voilate something sacred, shows care and admiration for duncan
  —-> foreshadows him avenging his king

is one life really worth more than another?

divine right of kings, regicide,
gun powder plot 1605

Performed privatly for James 1606

Question 7

“Turn hell-hound turn”

Act 5, scene 8

Macduff (fighting Macbeth)

Answer 7

-Short sentence —> tension
- “Hell-hound”, compound adjective, created by satan, one would die if they looked at it
aliterative, poetic and emphatic
forcful and violent
- “hell” sin and devil

Question 8

Technqie, stress, zoom x2

“I have no words, my voice is in my sword”

Act 5, Scene 8

Macduff (fighting Macbeth)

Answer 8

-Metaphor —> imagineative, emphasises loss of words and need for action
-Iambic stress “sword”
- “My” Possesive, emphasises his need/ desperation for the revenge to be his own
- “Sword” valient yet violent
—-> Emphases his need for revenge