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1. Banquo

Duncan's Son And Malcolm's Younger BrotherMacduff's Wife. The Scene In Her Castle Provides Our Only Glimpse Of A Domestic Realm Other Than That Of Macbeth And Lady Macbeth. She And Her Home Serve As Contrasts To Lady Macbeth And The Hellish World Of Inverness.The Struggle Within Macbeth Between His Ambition And His Sense Of Right And Wrong; The Struggle Between The Murderous Evil Represented By Macbeth And Lady Macbeth And The Best Interests Of The Nation - Represented By Malcolm And Macduff.The Brace - Noble General Whose Children - According To The Witches' Prophecy - Will Inherit The Scottish Throne. Like Macbeth - Banquo Thinks Ambitious Thoughts - But He Does Not Translate Those Thoughts Into Action. I A Sense - Banquo's Character Stands As A Rebuke To Macbeth - Since He Represents The Path Macbeth Chose Not To Take: A Path In Which Ambition Need Not Lead To Betrayal And Murder. Appropriately - Then - It Is Banquo's Ghost - And Not Duncan's - That Haunts Macbeth. In Addition To Embodying Macbeth's Guilt For Killing Banquo - The Ghost Also Reminds Macbeth That He Did Not Emulate Banquo's Reaction To The Witches' Prophecy.

2. Major Conflicts Within Macbeth

The Brace - Noble General Whose Children - According To The Witches' Prophecy - Will Inherit The Scottish Throne. Like Macbeth - Banquo Thinks Ambitious Thoughts - But He Does Not Translate Those Thoughts Into Action. I A Sense - Banquo's Character Stands As A Rebuke To Macbeth - Since He Represents The Path Macbeth Chose Not To Take: A Path In Which Ambition Need Not Lead To Betrayal And Murder. Appropriately - Then - It Is Banquo's Ghost - And Not Duncan's - That Haunts Macbeth. In Addition To Embodying Macbeth's Guilt For Killing Banquo - The Ghost Also Reminds Macbeth That He Did Not Emulate Banquo's Reaction To The Witches' Prophecy.The Struggle Within Macbeth Between His Ambition And His Sense Of Right And Wrong; The Struggle Between The Murderous Evil Represented By Macbeth And Lady Macbeth And The Best Interests Of The Nation - Represented By Malcolm And Macduff.Duncan's Son And Malcolm's Younger BrotherMacduff's Wife. The Scene In Her Castle Provides Our Only Glimpse Of A Domestic Realm Other Than That Of Macbeth And Lady Macbeth. She And Her Home Serve As Contrasts To Lady Macbeth And The Hellish World Of Inverness.

3. Lady Macduff

Macduff's Wife. The Scene In Her Castle Provides Our Only Glimpse Of A Domestic Realm Other Than That Of Macbeth And Lady Macbeth. She And Her Home Serve As Contrasts To Lady Macbeth And The Hellish World Of Inverness.The Brace - Noble General Whose Children - According To The Witches' Prophecy - Will Inherit The Scottish Throne. Like Macbeth - Banquo Thinks Ambitious Thoughts - But He Does Not Translate Those Thoughts Into Action. I A Sense - Banquo's Character Stands As A Rebuke To Macbeth - Since He Represents The Path Macbeth Chose Not To Take: A Path In Which Ambition Need Not Lead To Betrayal And Murder. Appropriately - Then - It Is Banquo's Ghost - And Not Duncan's - That Haunts Macbeth. In Addition To Embodying Macbeth's Guilt For Killing Banquo - The Ghost Also Reminds Macbeth That He Did Not Emulate Banquo's Reaction To The Witches' Prophecy.Duncan's Son And Malcolm's Younger BrotherThe Struggle Within Macbeth Between His Ambition And His Sense Of Right And Wrong; The Struggle Between The Murderous Evil Represented By Macbeth And Lady Macbeth And The Best Interests Of The Nation - Represented By Malcolm And Macduff.

4. Donalbain

5. Fleance

The Struggle Within Macbeth Between His Ambition And His Sense Of Right And Wrong; The Struggle Between The Murderous Evil Represented By Macbeth And Lady Macbeth And The Best Interests Of The Nation - Represented By Malcolm And Macduff.Macduff's Wife. The Scene In Her Castle Provides Our Only Glimpse Of A Domestic Realm Other Than That Of Macbeth And Lady Macbeth. She And Her Home Serve As Contrasts To Lady Macbeth And The Hellish World Of Inverness.The Brace - Noble General Whose Children - According To The Witches' Prophecy - Will Inherit The Scottish Throne. Like Macbeth - Banquo Thinks Ambitious Thoughts - But He Does Not Translate Those Thoughts Into Action. I A Sense - Banquo's Character Stands As A Rebuke To Macbeth - Since He Represents The Path Macbeth Chose Not To Take: A Path In Which Ambition Need Not Lead To Betrayal And Murder. Appropriately - Then - It Is Banquo's Ghost - And Not Duncan's - That Haunts Macbeth. In Addition To Embodying Macbeth's Guilt For Killing Banquo - The Ghost Also Reminds Macbeth That He Did Not Emulate Banquo's Reaction To The Witches' Prophecy.Banqup's Son - Who Survives Macbeth's Attempt To Murder Him. At The End Of The Play - Fleance's Whereabouts Are Unknown. Presumably - He May Come To Rule Scotland - Fulfilling The Witches' Prophecy That Banquo's Sons Will Sit On The Scottish Throne.

6. Falling Action

Macbeth's Increasingly Brutal Murders (Of Duncan's Servants - Banquo - Lady Macduff And Her Son); Macbeth's Second Meeting With The Witches; Macbeth's Final Confrontation With Macduff And The Opposing Armies.Macduff's Wife. The Scene In Her Castle Provides Our Only Glimpse Of A Domestic Realm Other Than That Of Macbeth And Lady Macbeth. She And Her Home Serve As Contrasts To Lady Macbeth And The Hellish World Of Inverness.The Brace - Noble General Whose Children - According To The Witches' Prophecy - Will Inherit The Scottish Throne. Like Macbeth - Banquo Thinks Ambitious Thoughts - But He Does Not Translate Those Thoughts Into Action. I A Sense - Banquo's Character Stands As A Rebuke To Macbeth - Since He Represents The Path Macbeth Chose Not To Take: A Path In Which Ambition Need Not Lead To Betrayal And Murder. Appropriately - Then - It Is Banquo's Ghost - And Not Duncan's - That Haunts Macbeth. In Addition To Embodying Macbeth's Guilt For Killing Banquo - The Ghost Also Reminds Macbeth That He Did Not Emulate Banquo's Reaction To The Witches' Prophecy.The Struggle Within Macbeth Between His Ambition And His Sense Of Right And Wrong; The Struggle Between The Murderous Evil Represented By Macbeth And Lady Macbeth And The Best Interests Of The Nation - Represented By Malcolm And Macduff.

7. Malcolm

The Brace - Noble General Whose Children - According To The Witches' Prophecy - Will Inherit The Scottish Throne. Like Macbeth - Banquo Thinks Ambitious Thoughts - But He Does Not Translate Those Thoughts Into Action. I A Sense - Banquo's Character Stands As A Rebuke To Macbeth - Since He Represents The Path Macbeth Chose Not To Take: A Path In Which Ambition Need Not Lead To Betrayal And Murder. Appropriately - Then - It Is Banquo's Ghost - And Not Duncan's - That Haunts Macbeth. In Addition To Embodying Macbeth's Guilt For Killing Banquo - The Ghost Also Reminds Macbeth That He Did Not Emulate Banquo's Reaction To The Witches' Prophecy.The Son Of Duncan - Whose Restoration To The Throne Signals Scotland's Return To Order Following Macbeth's Reign Of Terror. Malcolm Becomes A Serious Challenge To Macbeth With Macduff's Aid (And The Support Of England). Prior To This - He Appears Weak And Uncertain Of His Own Power - As When He And Donalbain Flee Scotland After Their Father's Murder.Macduff's Wife. The Scene In Her Castle Provides Our Only Glimpse Of A Domestic Realm Other Than That Of Macbeth And Lady Macbeth. She And Her Home Serve As Contrasts To Lady Macbeth And The Hellish World Of Inverness.The Struggle Within Macbeth Between His Ambition And His Sense Of Right And Wrong; The Struggle Between The Murderous Evil Represented By Macbeth And Lady Macbeth And The Best Interests Of The Nation - Represented By Malcolm And Macduff.

8. Lady Macbeth

The Struggle Within Macbeth Between His Ambition And His Sense Of Right And Wrong; The Struggle Between The Murderous Evil Represented By Macbeth And Lady Macbeth And The Best Interests Of The Nation - Represented By Malcolm And Macduff.Macbeth's Wife A Deeply - Ambitious Woman Who Lists For Power And Position. Early In The Play She Seems To Be The Stronger And More Ruthless Of The Two - As She Urges Her Husband To Kill Duncan And Seize The Crown. After The Bloodshed Begins - However - Lady Macbeth Falls Victim To Guilt And Madness To An Even Greater Degree Than Her Husband. Her Conscience Affects Her To Such An Extent That She Eventually Commits Suicide. Interestingly - She And Macbeth Are Presented As Being Deeply In Love - And Many Of Lady Macbeth's Speeches Imply That Her Influence Over Her Husband Is Primarily Sexual. Their Joint Alienation From The World - Occasioned By Their Partnership In Crime - Seems To Strengthen The Attachment That They Feel To Each Another.Macduff's Wife. The Scene In Her Castle Provides Our Only Glimpse Of A Domestic Realm Other Than That Of Macbeth And Lady Macbeth. She And Her Home Serve As Contrasts To Lady Macbeth And The Hellish World Of Inverness.The Brace - Noble General Whose Children - According To The Witches' Prophecy - Will Inherit The Scottish Throne. Like Macbeth - Banquo Thinks Ambitious Thoughts - But He Does Not Translate Those Thoughts Into Action. I A Sense - Banquo's Character Stands As A Rebuke To Macbeth - Since He Represents The Path Macbeth Chose Not To Take: A Path In Which Ambition Need Not Lead To Betrayal And Murder. Appropriately - Then - It Is Banquo's Ghost - And Not Duncan's - That Haunts Macbeth. In Addition To Embodying Macbeth's Guilt For Killing Banquo - The Ghost Also Reminds Macbeth That He Did Not Emulate Banquo's Reaction To The Witches' Prophecy.

9. The Three Witches

Three "Black And Midnight Hags" Who Plot Mischief Against Macbeth Using Charms - Spells - And Prophecies. Their Predictions Prompt Him To Murder Duncan - To Order The Deaths Of Banquo And His Son - And To Blindly Believe In His Own Immortality. The Play Leaves The Witches' True Identity Unclear - Aside From The Fact That They Are Servants Of Hecate - We Know Little About Their Place In The Cosmos. In Some Ways They Resemble The Mythological Fates - Who Impersonally Weave The Threads Of Human Destiny. They Clearly Take A Perverse Delight In Using Their Knowledge Of The Future To Toy With And Destroy Human Beings.Macduff's Wife. The Scene In Her Castle Provides Our Only Glimpse Of A Domestic Realm Other Than That Of Macbeth And Lady Macbeth. She And Her Home Serve As Contrasts To Lady Macbeth And The Hellish World Of Inverness.The Brace - Noble General Whose Children - According To The Witches' Prophecy - Will Inherit The Scottish Throne. Like Macbeth - Banquo Thinks Ambitious Thoughts - But He Does Not Translate Those Thoughts Into Action. I A Sense - Banquo's Character Stands As A Rebuke To Macbeth - Since He Represents The Path Macbeth Chose Not To Take: A Path In Which Ambition Need Not Lead To Betrayal And Murder. Appropriately - Then - It Is Banquo's Ghost - And Not Duncan's - That Haunts Macbeth. In Addition To Embodying Macbeth's Guilt For Killing Banquo - The Ghost Also Reminds Macbeth That He Did Not Emulate Banquo's Reaction To The Witches' Prophecy.The Struggle Within Macbeth Between His Ambition And His Sense Of Right And Wrong; The Struggle Between The Murderous Evil Represented By Macbeth And Lady Macbeth And The Best Interests Of The Nation - Represented By Malcolm And Macduff.

10. Who Wrote Macbeth?

The Struggle Within Macbeth Between His Ambition And His Sense Of Right And Wrong; The Struggle Between The Murderous Evil Represented By Macbeth And Lady Macbeth And The Best Interests Of The Nation - Represented By Malcolm And Macduff.ShakespeareThe Brace - Noble General Whose Children - According To The Witches' Prophecy - Will Inherit The Scottish Throne. Like Macbeth - Banquo Thinks Ambitious Thoughts - But He Does Not Translate Those Thoughts Into Action. I A Sense - Banquo's Character Stands As A Rebuke To Macbeth - Since He Represents The Path Macbeth Chose Not To Take: A Path In Which Ambition Need Not Lead To Betrayal And Murder. Appropriately - Then - It Is Banquo's Ghost - And Not Duncan's - That Haunts Macbeth. In Addition To Embodying Macbeth's Guilt For Killing Banquo - The Ghost Also Reminds Macbeth That He Did Not Emulate Banquo's Reaction To The Witches' Prophecy.Macduff's Wife. The Scene In Her Castle Provides Our Only Glimpse Of A Domestic Realm Other Than That Of Macbeth And Lady Macbeth. She And Her Home Serve As Contrasts To Lady Macbeth And The Hellish World Of Inverness.

11. Macbeth

Macbeth Is A Scottish General And The Thane Of Glamis Who Is Led To Wicked Thoughts By The Prophecies Of The Three Witches - Especially After Their Prophecy That He Will Be Made Thane Of Cawdor Comes True. Macbeth Is A Brave Soldier And A Powerful Man - But He Is Not A Virtuous One. He Is Easily Tempted Into Murder To Fulfill His Ambitions To The Throne - And Once He Commits His First Crime And Is Crowned King Of Scotland - He Embarks On The Further Atrocities With Increasing Ease. Ultimately - Macbeth Prices Himself Better Suited To The Battlefield Than To Political Intrigue - Because He Lacks The Skills Necessary To Rule Without Being A Tyrant. His Response To Every Problem Is Violence And Murder. Unlike Shakespeare's Great Villains - Such As Iago And Othello And Richard Iii In Richard Iii - Macbeth Is Never Comfortable In His Role As A Primal. He Is Unable To Bear Psychological Consequences Of His Atrocities.The Brace - Noble General Whose Children - According To The Witches' Prophecy - Will Inherit The Scottish Throne. Like Macbeth - Banquo Thinks Ambitious Thoughts - But He Does Not Translate Those Thoughts Into Action. I A Sense - Banquo's Character Stands As A Rebuke To Macbeth - Since He Represents The Path Macbeth Chose Not To Take: A Path In Which Ambition Need Not Lead To Betrayal And Murder. Appropriately - Then - It Is Banquo's Ghost - And Not Duncan's - That Haunts Macbeth. In Addition To Embodying Macbeth's Guilt For Killing Banquo - The Ghost Also Reminds Macbeth That He Did Not Emulate Banquo's Reaction To The Witches' Prophecy.Macduff's Wife. The Scene In Her Castle Provides Our Only Glimpse Of A Domestic Realm Other Than That Of Macbeth And Lady Macbeth. She And Her Home Serve As Contrasts To Lady Macbeth And The Hellish World Of Inverness.The Struggle Within Macbeth Between His Ambition And His Sense Of Right And Wrong; The Struggle Between The Murderous Evil Represented By Macbeth And Lady Macbeth And The Best Interests Of The Nation - Represented By Malcolm And Macduff.

12. Climax

The Brace - Noble General Whose Children - According To The Witches' Prophecy - Will Inherit The Scottish Throne. Like Macbeth - Banquo Thinks Ambitious Thoughts - But He Does Not Translate Those Thoughts Into Action. I A Sense - Banquo's Character Stands As A Rebuke To Macbeth - Since He Represents The Path Macbeth Chose Not To Take: A Path In Which Ambition Need Not Lead To Betrayal And Murder. Appropriately - Then - It Is Banquo's Ghost - And Not Duncan's - That Haunts Macbeth. In Addition To Embodying Macbeth's Guilt For Killing Banquo - The Ghost Also Reminds Macbeth That He Did Not Emulate Banquo's Reaction To The Witches' Prophecy.The Struggle Within Macbeth Between His Ambition And His Sense Of Right And Wrong; The Struggle Between The Murderous Evil Represented By Macbeth And Lady Macbeth And The Best Interests Of The Nation - Represented By Malcolm And Macduff.Macbeth's Murder Of Duncan In Act 2 Represents The Point Of No Return - After Which Macbeth Is Forced To Continue Butchering His Subjects To Avoid The Consequences Of His Crime.Macduff's Wife. The Scene In Her Castle Provides Our Only Glimpse Of A Domestic Realm Other Than That Of Macbeth And Lady Macbeth. She And Her Home Serve As Contrasts To Lady Macbeth And The Hellish World Of Inverness.

13. Macduff

The Struggle Within Macbeth Between His Ambition And His Sense Of Right And Wrong; The Struggle Between The Murderous Evil Represented By Macbeth And Lady Macbeth And The Best Interests Of The Nation - Represented By Malcolm And Macduff.The Brace - Noble General Whose Children - According To The Witches' Prophecy - Will Inherit The Scottish Throne. Like Macbeth - Banquo Thinks Ambitious Thoughts - But He Does Not Translate Those Thoughts Into Action. I A Sense - Banquo's Character Stands As A Rebuke To Macbeth - Since He Represents The Path Macbeth Chose Not To Take: A Path In Which Ambition Need Not Lead To Betrayal And Murder. Appropriately - Then - It Is Banquo's Ghost - And Not Duncan's - That Haunts Macbeth. In Addition To Embodying Macbeth's Guilt For Killing Banquo - The Ghost Also Reminds Macbeth That He Did Not Emulate Banquo's Reaction To The Witches' Prophecy.A Scottish Nobleman Hostile To Macbeth's Kingship From The Start. He Eventually Becomes A Leader Of The Crusade To Unseat Macbeth. The Crusade's Mission Is To Place The Rightful King. Malcolm - On The Throne - But Macduff Also Desires Vengeance For Macbeth's Murder Of Macduff's Wife And Young Son.Macduff's Wife. The Scene In Her Castle Provides Our Only Glimpse Of A Domestic Realm Other Than That Of Macbeth And Lady Macbeth. She And Her Home Serve As Contrasts To Lady Macbeth And The Hellish World Of Inverness.

14. Hecate

The Goddess Of Witchcraft - Who Helps The Three Witches Work Their Mischief On Macbeth.Macduff's Wife. The Scene In Her Castle Provides Our Only Glimpse Of A Domestic Realm Other Than That Of Macbeth And Lady Macbeth. She And Her Home Serve As Contrasts To Lady Macbeth And The Hellish World Of Inverness.The Struggle Within Macbeth Between His Ambition And His Sense Of Right And Wrong; The Struggle Between The Murderous Evil Represented By Macbeth And Lady Macbeth And The Best Interests Of The Nation - Represented By Malcolm And Macduff.The Brace - Noble General Whose Children - According To The Witches' Prophecy - Will Inherit The Scottish Throne. Like Macbeth - Banquo Thinks Ambitious Thoughts - But He Does Not Translate Those Thoughts Into Action. I A Sense - Banquo's Character Stands As A Rebuke To Macbeth - Since He Represents The Path Macbeth Chose Not To Take: A Path In Which Ambition Need Not Lead To Betrayal And Murder. Appropriately - Then - It Is Banquo's Ghost - And Not Duncan's - That Haunts Macbeth. In Addition To Embodying Macbeth's Guilt For Killing Banquo - The Ghost Also Reminds Macbeth That He Did Not Emulate Banquo's Reaction To The Witches' Prophecy.

15. The Murderers

The Brace - Noble General Whose Children - According To The Witches' Prophecy - Will Inherit The Scottish Throne. Like Macbeth - Banquo Thinks Ambitious Thoughts - But He Does Not Translate Those Thoughts Into Action. I A Sense - Banquo's Character Stands As A Rebuke To Macbeth - Since He Represents The Path Macbeth Chose Not To Take: A Path In Which Ambition Need Not Lead To Betrayal And Murder. Appropriately - Then - It Is Banquo's Ghost - And Not Duncan's - That Haunts Macbeth. In Addition To Embodying Macbeth's Guilt For Killing Banquo - The Ghost Also Reminds Macbeth That He Did Not Emulate Banquo's Reaction To The Witches' Prophecy.The Struggle Within Macbeth Between His Ambition And His Sense Of Right And Wrong; The Struggle Between The Murderous Evil Represented By Macbeth And Lady Macbeth And The Best Interests Of The Nation - Represented By Malcolm And Macduff.A Group Of Ruffians Conscripted By Macbeth To Murder Banquo - Fleance (Whom They Fail To Kill) - And Macduff's Wife And Children.Macduff's Wife. The Scene In Her Castle Provides Our Only Glimpse Of A Domestic Realm Other Than That Of Macbeth And Lady Macbeth. She And Her Home Serve As Contrasts To Lady Macbeth And The Hellish World Of Inverness.

16. Porter

The Brace - Noble General Whose Children - According To The Witches' Prophecy - Will Inherit The Scottish Throne. Like Macbeth - Banquo Thinks Ambitious Thoughts - But He Does Not Translate Those Thoughts Into Action. I A Sense - Banquo's Character Stands As A Rebuke To Macbeth - Since He Represents The Path Macbeth Chose Not To Take: A Path In Which Ambition Need Not Lead To Betrayal And Murder. Appropriately - Then - It Is Banquo's Ghost - And Not Duncan's - That Haunts Macbeth. In Addition To Embodying Macbeth's Guilt For Killing Banquo - The Ghost Also Reminds Macbeth That He Did Not Emulate Banquo's Reaction To The Witches' Prophecy.The Struggle Within Macbeth Between His Ambition And His Sense Of Right And Wrong; The Struggle Between The Murderous Evil Represented By Macbeth And Lady Macbeth And The Best Interests Of The Nation - Represented By Malcolm And Macduff.Macduff's Wife. The Scene In Her Castle Provides Our Only Glimpse Of A Domestic Realm Other Than That Of Macbeth And Lady Macbeth. She And Her Home Serve As Contrasts To Lady Macbeth And The Hellish World Of Inverness.The Drunken Doorman Of Macbeth's Castle.

17. Rising Action In Macbeth

The Brace - Noble General Whose Children - According To The Witches' Prophecy - Will Inherit The Scottish Throne. Like Macbeth - Banquo Thinks Ambitious Thoughts - But He Does Not Translate Those Thoughts Into Action. I A Sense - Banquo's Character Stands As A Rebuke To Macbeth - Since He Represents The Path Macbeth Chose Not To Take: A Path In Which Ambition Need Not Lead To Betrayal And Murder. Appropriately - Then - It Is Banquo's Ghost - And Not Duncan's - That Haunts Macbeth. In Addition To Embodying Macbeth's Guilt For Killing Banquo - The Ghost Also Reminds Macbeth That He Did Not Emulate Banquo's Reaction To The Witches' Prophecy.Macduff's Wife. The Scene In Her Castle Provides Our Only Glimpse Of A Domestic Realm Other Than That Of Macbeth And Lady Macbeth. She And Her Home Serve As Contrasts To Lady Macbeth And The Hellish World Of Inverness.Macbeth And Bnquo's Encounter With The Witches Initiates Both Conflicts; Lady Macbeth's Speeches Goad Macbeth Into Murdering Duncan And Seizing The Crown.The Struggle Within Macbeth Between His Ambition And His Sense Of Right And Wrong; The Struggle Between The Murderous Evil Represented By Macbeth And Lady Macbeth And The Best Interests Of The Nation - Represented By Malcolm And Macduff.

18. Lennox

The Brace - Noble General Whose Children - According To The Witches' Prophecy - Will Inherit The Scottish Throne. Like Macbeth - Banquo Thinks Ambitious Thoughts - But He Does Not Translate Those Thoughts Into Action. I A Sense - Banquo's Character Stands As A Rebuke To Macbeth - Since He Represents The Path Macbeth Chose Not To Take: A Path In Which Ambition Need Not Lead To Betrayal And Murder. Appropriately - Then - It Is Banquo's Ghost - And Not Duncan's - That Haunts Macbeth. In Addition To Embodying Macbeth's Guilt For Killing Banquo - The Ghost Also Reminds Macbeth That He Did Not Emulate Banquo's Reaction To The Witches' Prophecy.The Struggle Within Macbeth Between His Ambition And His Sense Of Right And Wrong; The Struggle Between The Murderous Evil Represented By Macbeth And Lady Macbeth And The Best Interests Of The Nation - Represented By Malcolm And Macduff.A Scottish Nobleman.Macduff's Wife. The Scene In Her Castle Provides Our Only Glimpse Of A Domestic Realm Other Than That Of Macbeth And Lady Macbeth. She And Her Home Serve As Contrasts To Lady Macbeth And The Hellish World Of Inverness.

19. What Type Of Play Is Macbeth?

The Brace - Noble General Whose Children - According To The Witches' Prophecy - Will Inherit The Scottish Throne. Like Macbeth - Banquo Thinks Ambitious Thoughts - But He Does Not Translate Those Thoughts Into Action. I A Sense - Banquo's Character Stands As A Rebuke To Macbeth - Since He Represents The Path Macbeth Chose Not To Take: A Path In Which Ambition Need Not Lead To Betrayal And Murder. Appropriately - Then - It Is Banquo's Ghost - And Not Duncan's - That Haunts Macbeth. In Addition To Embodying Macbeth's Guilt For Killing Banquo - The Ghost Also Reminds Macbeth That He Did Not Emulate Banquo's Reaction To The Witches' Prophecy.Macduff's Wife. The Scene In Her Castle Provides Our Only Glimpse Of A Domestic Realm Other Than That Of Macbeth And Lady Macbeth. She And Her Home Serve As Contrasts To Lady Macbeth And The Hellish World Of Inverness.The Struggle Within Macbeth Between His Ambition And His Sense Of Right And Wrong; The Struggle Between The Murderous Evil Represented By Macbeth And Lady Macbeth And The Best Interests Of The Nation - Represented By Malcolm And Macduff.Tragedy

20. Ross

The Brace - Noble General Whose Children - According To The Witches' Prophecy - Will Inherit The Scottish Throne. Like Macbeth - Banquo Thinks Ambitious Thoughts - But He Does Not Translate Those Thoughts Into Action. I A Sense - Banquo's Character Stands As A Rebuke To Macbeth - Since He Represents The Path Macbeth Chose Not To Take: A Path In Which Ambition Need Not Lead To Betrayal And Murder. Appropriately - Then - It Is Banquo's Ghost - And Not Duncan's - That Haunts Macbeth. In Addition To Embodying Macbeth's Guilt For Killing Banquo - The Ghost Also Reminds Macbeth That He Did Not Emulate Banquo's Reaction To The Witches' Prophecy.A Scottish Nobleman.The Struggle Within Macbeth Between His Ambition And His Sense Of Right And Wrong; The Struggle Between The Murderous Evil Represented By Macbeth And Lady Macbeth And The Best Interests Of The Nation - Represented By Malcolm And Macduff.Macduff's Wife. The Scene In Her Castle Provides Our Only Glimpse Of A Domestic Realm Other Than That Of Macbeth And Lady Macbeth. She And Her Home Serve As Contrasts To Lady Macbeth And The Hellish World Of Inverness.

21. Time Period Of Macbeth

The Struggle Within Macbeth Between His Ambition And His Sense Of Right And Wrong; The Struggle Between The Murderous Evil Represented By Macbeth And Lady Macbeth And The Best Interests Of The Nation - Represented By Malcolm And Macduff.Macduff's Wife. The Scene In Her Castle Provides Our Only Glimpse Of A Domestic Realm Other Than That Of Macbeth And Lady Macbeth. She And Her Home Serve As Contrasts To Lady Macbeth And The Hellish World Of Inverness.The Brace - Noble General Whose Children - According To The Witches' Prophecy - Will Inherit The Scottish Throne. Like Macbeth - Banquo Thinks Ambitious Thoughts - But He Does Not Translate Those Thoughts Into Action. I A Sense - Banquo's Character Stands As A Rebuke To Macbeth - Since He Represents The Path Macbeth Chose Not To Take: A Path In Which Ambition Need Not Lead To Betrayal And Murder. Appropriately - Then - It Is Banquo's Ghost - And Not Duncan's - That Haunts Macbeth. In Addition To Embodying Macbeth's Guilt For Killing Banquo - The Ghost Also Reminds Macbeth That He Did Not Emulate Banquo's Reaction To The Witches' Prophecy.1606

22. King Duncan

The Good King Of Scotland Whom Macbeth - In His Ambition For The Crown Murders. Duncan Is The Model Of A Virtuous - Benevolent - And Farsighted Ruler. His Death Symbolizes The Destruction Of An Order In Scotland That Can Be Restored Only When Duncan's Line - In The Person Of Malcolm - Once More Occupies The Throne.The Brace - Noble General Whose Children - According To The Witches' Prophecy - Will Inherit The Scottish Throne. Like Macbeth - Banquo Thinks Ambitious Thoughts - But He Does Not Translate Those Thoughts Into Action. I A Sense - Banquo's Character Stands As A Rebuke To Macbeth - Since He Represents The Path Macbeth Chose Not To Take: A Path In Which Ambition Need Not Lead To Betrayal And Murder. Appropriately - Then - It Is Banquo's Ghost - And Not Duncan's - That Haunts Macbeth. In Addition To Embodying Macbeth's Guilt For Killing Banquo - The Ghost Also Reminds Macbeth That He Did Not Emulate Banquo's Reaction To The Witches' Prophecy.Macduff's Wife. The Scene In Her Castle Provides Our Only Glimpse Of A Domestic Realm Other Than That Of Macbeth And Lady Macbeth. She And Her Home Serve As Contrasts To Lady Macbeth And The Hellish World Of Inverness.The Struggle Within Macbeth Between His Ambition And His Sense Of Right And Wrong; The Struggle Between The Murderous Evil Represented By Macbeth And Lady Macbeth And The Best Interests Of The Nation - Represented By Malcolm And Macduff.

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