Character Charting

1
Character Charting

• Christina DAgostino
• Evelyn Kobierowski
• Emma Messore

2
Witches

• Significant Line
• Double, double, toil and trouble fire burn and
  cauldron bubble (repeated line)
• Significant Actions
• Conjure up apparitions which foreshadow Macbeths
  future
• First apparition Armed Head which symbolizes
  Macduff?Macduff will try to hurt Macbeth
• Second apparition Bloody Child which symbolizes
  Macduff at birth?no one born of a woman will hurt
  Macbeth
• Third apparition A Child Crowned, with a tree in
  his hand which symbolizes Malcolm?until Great
  Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane Hill
• A line of eight kings and Banquo holding a
  mirror?Fleance will be the next king
• Change Not much change they still do not want
  to help Macbeth too much
• How Characters View the Change
• Macbeth is angry they will next help him
• Lines 104-105

3
Macbeth

• Significant Lines
• Lines 50-61 I conjure you, by that which you
  professanswer me to what I ask you.
• Lines 104-105 I will be satisfied. Deny me
  this, and an eternal curse fall on you!
• Significant Actions
• Asks the witches for help
• Change
• Macbeth is becoming more evil and insane
• Desperate to secure his future more afraid than
  ever
• How Characters View Change
• Lines 44-45 By the pricking of my thumbs,
  something wicked this way comes (second
  witch)?the witches realize he is evil
• Lines 216-217 He has no children. All my pretty
  ones? Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?
  (Macduff)?Macbeth is capable of evil

4
Lady Macduff

• Significant actions
• Is offended by Macduff abandoning her
• Tells son that Macduff is dead
• Significant Lines
• Scene ii Line 3-4When our actions do not, our
  fears make us traitors
• Ironic ? she calls her husband a traitor, when
  she herself is a traitor for not believing in him
  and that he had a good cause to leave.
• Son begins to view mother as a traitor ? he
  does not believe Macduff is dead.

5
Macduffs Son

• Significant Actions
• Defends his father is murdered for doing so
• Becomes wiser and braver
• Thinks for himself stands up for his father
  when murdered insults him
• Significant Lines
• Scene ii Lines 54-55 Then the liars and
  swearers are fools for there are liars and
  swearers enow (enough) to beat the honest men and
  hang up them.
• Shows sons wisdomhe knows he mother is lying,
  when she is condemning her husband for being a
  traitor.
• Mother views him as foolish (poor monkey)
• Ignorance ? she is the one who is foolish

6
Malcolm

• Significant Lines
• Scene 3, Line 221 Dispute it like a
  man?agression, vengeance
• Scene 3, Lines 238-239 Macbeth is ripe for
  shaking
• Significant Actions
• Tests Macduffs loyalty and becomes his
  ally?foreshadows a future fight against Macbeth
• Change
• Not much, but does become more compassionate
• Macduff answers Malcolm, I shall do so, / But I
  must also feel it as a man (Scene 3, Lines
  222223)?become more sensitive

7
Significant Lines/Actions

• Lennox to Macbeth
• Line 142 Macduff is fled to England.
• Ross attempts to console Lady Macduff
• Messenger warns Lady Macduff to leave
• Scene 2, Line 67 Be not found here hence,
  with your little ones