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Macbeth characters6/17/2023 Cassandra Truth: As it turns out, Macduff was right to be suspicious of Macbeth even when everybody else thought he was The Good King.This is part of why No Man of Woman Born applies - Macduff was born from a corpse. Born from a Dead Woman: Until fairly recently, C-sections were only performed on women who suffered Death by Childbirth.Essentially, he is the Optimus Prime to Macbeth’s Megatron. Subverted in the Polanski adaptation where he wakes up in time to see a slightly hesitant Macbeth hovering over him with a dagger, ironically provoking him into committing to going through with it.Ī fellow Scottish nobleman, prophesied to bring ruin to Macbeth. Slain in Their Sleep: Macbeth knifes Duncan after he goes to sleep. In fairness, Macbeth did a lot to actually earn his trust, from killing the treasonous Thane to leading Scotland's victory against a Norwegian invasion. Horrible Judge of Character: You'd think that he'd be more careful about naming men Thane of Cawdor and placing his absolute trust in them after the first one rebelled.Macbeth kills him because the prophecy put the idea of being king into his head and his wife put the idea of regicide in his head, not because he hated the guy. The Good King: No one has any complaints about his rule.(That said, Rowe's account came nearly a century later.) Descended Creator: Based on the writing of Nicholas Rowe, the first true editor of Shakespeare, it is widely thought that Shakespeare played the role of Duncan himself.The king of Scotland, who's just made his son Malcolm his heir. What You Are in the Dark: Even after all her speeches about asking to be made completely evil, she cannot go through with her plan to stab Duncan in his sleep, and Macbeth ends up doing it.Scrubbing Off the Trauma: The famous sleepwalking scene: Lady Macbeth is guilt-ridden over Duncan's death, dreams that she has a bloodstain on her hand and she cannot get it out no matter how hard she tries to clean it.Sanity Slippage: Lady Macbeth starts to have visual and aural hallucinations driven by her guilt, and she eventually kills herself.Lady Macbeth made a profound impact, as she's also the Trope Codifier. But as he starts to become a tyrant, she starts going insane with guilt. While Macbeth is keen on becoming king from the beginning, it is his wife who encourages him to take the throne through regicide. Happily Married: Her marriage to Macbeth seems to be mutually loving.She also mentions that she might have killed Duncan herself if he didn't look so much like her father. Even Evil Has Loved Ones: As ambitious and driven as she is, most productions portray her as a loving wife to Macbeth.And all the while, her guilt begins to catch up with her. Then Macbeth grows increasingly paranoid and murders even more people to cover up their crime.
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