Macbeth

Macbeth Chronoligical Character Organizer

By Dantinne
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    Act 1

  • Lady Macbeth Act 1

    Act 1 Key words:
    - Ambitious
    - Evil
    - Confident
    “That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncun Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here” (1.5.46-48)

  • Macbeth Act 1

    Act 1 & Key words:
    - Brave
    - Honorable
    - Strong
    “But all’s to weak; For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name)” (1.2.17-18) At this point Macbeth looks like a person kids will aspire to one day.

  • Banquo Act 1

    Act 1 Key words:
    - Humble
    - Unconvinced
    “That, trusted home, Might yet enkindle you unto the crown, Besides the Thane of Cawdor, But ‘tis strange.” (1.3.132-134)

  • Lady Macbeth Act 2

    Theme: Gender roles. Lady Macbeth cannot carry out her ambitions by herself, as she is a woman so she pushes her husband to take action for her

  • Macbeth Act 2

    Act 2 Key words:
    - Guilty
    - Evil
    -Sorry
    “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.” (2.2.78-81)
    Theme: reason Vs. PassionMacbeth first reasons be for he acts but later in the play he acts before he reasons.
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    Act 2

  • Banquo Act 2

    Banquo did not trust the witches and never thought that these faiths would actually come true but as he see’s Macbeth’s come true he wonders if his will come true too. So far he seems like someone who wouldn’t obtain his faith through violence un like Macbeth.

  • Macduff Act 2

    Act 2 Key words:
    - Loyal
    - Respectful “Approach the chamber and destroy your sight With a new Gorgon. Do not bid me speak. See and then speak yourselves.” (2.3.82-84) Macduff seems loyal and kind so far, no one who would want to harm anyone else.
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    Act 3

  • Banquo Act 3

    Act 3 Key words:

    - Death
    - Revenge
    - Hate
    “O treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! Thou mayst revenge-O slave!” (3.3.25-26)

  • Macbeth Act 3

    Act 3 Key words:
    - Guilt
    - Doubt
    - Evil
    “O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!” (3.2.41)

  • Lady Macbeth Act 3

    Act 3 key words:

    - Second thoughts
    - Doubt
    “ ’Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.” (3.2.8-9)
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    Act 4

  • Macbeth Act 4

    Act 4 Key words:
    - Faith
    - Greed
    - Confidence
    “ Then live, Macduff; what need I fear of thee? But yet I’ll make assurance double sure And take a bond of fate. Thou shalt not live,” (4.1.93-95)
    At this point Lady Macbeth and Macbeth have switched rolls, Lady Macbeth now feels guilt and becomes ill because of it while Macbeth gains confidence and continues his path of destruction.

  • Macduff Act 4

    Act 4 Key words:
    - Loyal scots men
    - Revenge
    - Honorable
    “Bleed, bleed, poor country! Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure, For goodness dare not check thee. Wear thou thy wrongs;” (4.3.39-42) & “He has no children. All my pretty ones? Did you say “all”? O hell-kite! All? What, all my pretty chickens and their dam At one fell swoop?” (4.3.255-258) Macduff proves his love and loyalty to his country here and it shows that he would fight until his death for Scotland good.

  • Work Cited

    Mowat, Barbara A., and Paul Werstine, eds. Macbeth. N.p.: Folger Shakespeare
    Library, 1992. Print.

  • Lady Macbeth Act 5 (5.1.28-29)

    Act 5 Key words
    - Ill
    - Guilt
    - Regretful
    - Death “What is it she does now? Look how she rubs her hands.” Lady Macbeth has become mentally ill from all the guilt and bad deeds they have done. She is trying to clean her hands by rubbing them but they will never be clean and this causes her to kill her self. Symbolism: The blood symbolizes all the bad deeds Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have begun and they are not able to clean their hands, since they cannot bring these people back alive.
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    Act 5

  • Macbeth Act 5

    Act 5 Key words:
    - Confident
    - Eager
    - Death “Why should I play the Roman fool and die On mine own sword? Whiles I see lives, the gashes Do better upon them” (5.8.1-3) & “Thou wast born of woman. But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn, Brandished by man that’s of a women born” (5.7.15-18) Motif: Prophecy The witches predicting the future of Macbeth’s live. They did not tell him how he would gain the thrown just that he would and he gained it through murder and backstabbing.

  • Macduff Act 5

    Act 5 Key words:
    - Hero
    - Brave
    - Revenge “I have no words; My voice is in my sword, thou bloodier villain Than terms can give thee out” (5.8.8-10) Macduff has not developed a lot through out the book, He has stayed loyal to his country through out and wanted the best for its people.