Macduff

Question 1

Macduff
All quotes

Answer 1

‘tyrant’
‘bleed, bleed, poor country’
‘he loves us not’
‘I must also feel it as a man’
‘my wife and children’s ghosts will haunt me’
‘dragging away the body’

Question 2

Macduff
1st point and quotations

Answer 2

Patriotic, feels obliged to leave wife and children in order to fight against Macbeth the ‘tyrant’ feels deeply for Scotland ‘bleed, bleed, poor country’ epizeuxis, personification, sympathy for vulnerable place under Macbeth’s reign

Question 3

Macduff
2nd point and quotations

Answer 3

Lady Macduff condemns him for leaving ‘he loves us not’ either selfish or valiant sacrifice he made, the family are then brutally murdered onstage, creates pathos as they were innocent, unjustified, abhorrent act

Question 4

Macduff
3rd point and quotations

Answer 4

Devastated to hear about his family, emotionally distraught, with guilt ‘I must also feel it as a man’ in touch with his emotions, balance of compassion and violence, opposite of Macbeth who loses his compassion

Question 5

Macduff
4th point and quotations

Answer 5

His distress fuels his desire to destroy Macbeth, if not ‘my wife and children’s ghosts will haunt me’ justified hatred, kills Macbeth and achieves revenge ‘dragging away the body’ climax, restores peace to Scotland, prosperous future, good defeated evil