Macbeth
Thane of Glamis and Cawdor
General in the King’s army
Physical description and traits: Macbeth is ambitious, as well as superstitious, he is known for his military prowess, boldness and bravery. He is peerless, affectionate, loyal, dominant in imposing stern terms upon he vanquished. He is hubris, as well as an opportunist. He has a conscience, which hinders him at first in securing the crown.
Role in Play: Macbeth is the protagonist, he is also the tragic hero.
Role in the Plot: Macbeth plays the role of an ambitious character that murders Duncan in order to secure the crown, during the play, he fluctuates between murderous fevered action and moments of terrible guilt.
Lady Macbeth
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Like Duncan, he represents divine right to the crown. He shows gratitude, wisdom, moderation, religiousness, and resolution.
Role in Story: Malcolm is the antagonist, his return to the thrown symbolizes restoration of order following Macbeth’s reign of terror.
Role in Plot: He is another person that Macbeth has to fight in order to secure the thrown.
Donalbain
Younger son of Duncan
Physical description and traits:
Role in Play:
Role in Plot: Like Malcolm, Donalbain is another person Macbeth would have to step over to keep the crown.
Lennox
Scottish Nobleman
Physical description and traits: Lennox is very observant, he is suspicious, sarcastic, fearful, and courageous.
Role in Play: Lennox has the gift of irony, regarded as having a shrewd mind, for he early suspects Macbeth.
Role in Plot: Exposes Macbeth.
Ross
Scottish Nobleman
Macbeth’s cousin
Physical descriptions and traits: Neutral and colorless.
Role in Play: Herald and messenger
Role in Plot: Brought good news about Macbeth’s military victory, and bad news about Macduff’s family, causing Macduff to avenge his family.
Siward
Earl of Northumberland
General in English forces
Physical description and traits: likable, brave, soldier.
Role in Play: Antagonist, Ally of Macduff and Malcolm
Role in Plot: He is
Macbeth is the main character in this Play, he is at the beginning a guy who seems emotionless and cold. He wants to be king and to have the ultimate power, he wants his wife to be happy and proud of him.To achieve all his goals he tries everything to become a friend of the king, duncan, and is really nice to him even thought he just has the ultimate power in his mind. After a while Macbeth is getting tired of always being nice and faking everything so his wife is trying to persuade him to keep doing everything to be king. Macbeth is getting help from three witches who set them all the thoughts about being king in his mind, with his wife many people want to convince him to kill duncan, so Macbeth is under a lot of pressure. At the end of the play when macbeth killed duncan and reached his goal to be king,he is really confident and full of himself what makes him think he can get anything and win everything, but when he fights against Mcduff his head got cut off and he dies.
He happened to be one of Macbeth’s good friends and had to turn against him to save the lives of his people. He realized that what Macbeth was doing was bad and he needed to be stopped.
Macbeth's excessive pride and ambition are now his dominant character traits. These features of his personality are well presented when he revisits the Witches of his own accord. His boldness and ideas of invincibility mark him out as lost to the toughs of ambition.
Macbeth is seen as an antagonist in the play Shakespeare's Macbeth. He has been seen as a part of many murders in the play such as Duncan's and Banquo's murders. In fact he also gets punished at the end of the play by getting killed by Macduff. However, he should be proven innocint since it is not entirely his fault. During the plan to murder Duncan, Macbeth was not the first to think about it, it was actually Lady Macbeth. She manipulated him to preform the deed by calling him a coward and questinoning his manhood. She knows by doing this, she will be able to convince Macbeth to preform the deed. Also, she is the one who holds the prophecies to be true. She is tempted by the hope of the crown and insures that she will do anything that needs
Malcolm is a big influence on Macbeth’s play. As a result of the death of Macbeth, he was able to recuperate the throne, which once belonged to his family.
character Macbeth. Macbeth is a Scottish king who has to gain control of the throne after killing his
battle in defense of his king's land. Macbeth fights defeats the enemy. Macbeth is praised for his
Macbeth's role plays throughout the story for being ambitious, but soon enough it got to the best of his abilities. He starts to see hallucinations and apparitions, for being guilty for the murders.
The story of Macbeth is full of lots of assassinations and action. Each and every character plays a crucial role in the play, but we have some characters that we can refer to
However, it is soon revealed that Macbeth does not care for the king and has taken
what he does. He wants the honor and respect from his people that he deserves
As the play starts, Macbeth is depicted as a mighty warrior who is adored. However, immediately after the murder of Duncan, he goes on to be brutalwith an aim of protecting his position. Committing murder becomes part of Macbeth’s leadership to a level of killing a grown man and Macduff’s entire family. All his action is based on self-interest as he says in scene three that all he does is to kill for pleasure. His selfish nature makes him such a hated tyrant who was once a loved Thane.
Another trait that Macbeth portrays through his personality is that he is very treacherous. Macbeth shows to be traitorous when he has the thought of acting treacherously against Duncan. “My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function is smother’d in surmise.” This quote helps support that Macbeth has obtained this trait because this is the point of time where his morals are challenged; he knows right from wrong, but still decides to let his evil ambitions get the best of him, for what he wants
Duncan's actions and remarks give you a good insight about what he is really like. Duncan seems to be a all around good guy he is always looking out for other and has their best interest at heart to do what is best for them and not him. He is a really good king he is a very helpful king and is helping others no matter what he has to do about it. He so far seems to be a good judge of character because he is putting all his faith into Macbeth by staying with him.
Although Lady Macbeth’s role in the play is small, it is very significant. When Lady Macbeth is introduced to the play she is reading Macbeth's letter. After reading his letter she begins to think of ways to assure that her husband would become king. She decides that they need to murder King Duncan. She immediately begins to think of a way to do so.