Macduffs

Question 1

what’s Macduff’s main focus

Answer 1

• serve as foil to Macbeth - provides a moral compass to serve as a comparison - no personal ambition so epitome of patriotism

Question 2

Macduff experiences emotion at the wake of his family’s slaughter - we have not yet seen a sincere response to the murder

Answer 2

-“all my pretty ones ?/all my pretty chickens and their dam”
-rep pretty feminine and emphasis compassion and warmth
-motif of birds carried through from Duncan entering Macbeth’s castle = homely warmth
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Question 3

“O Horror (x3) The life O’The Building”

Answer 3

• has little to say but holds power when he speaks
• metaphor life ‘o the building’ he respects that Duncan was the centre and he could accept he was inferior to that status - DROK
• rep horror shows he is shocked at regicide foil to macbeth who would do anything to gain power = we see this later on in his allegiance to Malcolm