Analysis Malcolm Telling Macduff

Before Macbeth meets with Macduff, he thinks of ways to handle Macduff so he would no longer be a problem. Macduff was considered to be a problem because he left the kingdom in order to assist an opposing force. Macbeth states “Then live, Macduff: what need I fear of thee? But yet I’ll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate.” (Act IV scn i, ln 82-84) He wants to make sure Macduff will not be a problem; he wants to keep Macduff out of his way. In this scene Macbeth is attempting to discover ways to inforce his superiority through the phrase “The castle of Macduff I will surprise; seize upon Fife; give to th’ edge o’ th’ sword his wife, his babies, and all unfortunate souls.” (Act IV scn i, ln 150-152) He hired men to kill Macduff’s family, so he will be depressed and will grieve; he wants to keep Macduff out of the way of him still being King. The main reason he did this, however, was to exert his leadership over Macduff and send a message. This paragraph explains how Macbeth was disloyal to Macduff and how he did anything to keep Macduff out of his way, but things did not turn out as he

While Macduff is in England, Macbeth learns of the abandonment of Macduff's family and resolves to have them murdered. When Macduff learns of the murder of his family, he is motivated by Malcolm to get revenge. It is this that pushes Macduff to the edge and forces him to go after Macbeth himself. The power of Malcolm's taunting that he must take it like a man and his own love for his family makes him hate Macbeth to the fullest extent, and eventually he succeeds in killing him.

They enter the castle in scene seven and Macduff seeks out Macbeth, ignoring all other beings there. "Let me find him, Fortune! And more I beg not" (5.7). They finally meet and Macbeth tells him to leave, as he already has so much of his blood. Macduff says that he has no words for him and that he will let his sword be his voice. Macduff then tells Macbeth that his prophecy does not protect from him, as he had to be removed from his mother by C-section and thusly is not “Woman-born”. He then fights Macbeth to the death. He reappears in scene nine with Macbeth’s head and announces that Malcolm is now the king of Scotland.

Macduff’s burning desire for revenge towards Macbeth was encouraged by many forces. As it is known, Macbeth murders Duncan which causes Malcolm to flee to England because he fears for his life. Following Duncan’s death, Macduff was the first to discover Duncan dead, and it can be inferred that he was so angry and mortified that it sparks apprehensiveness towards Macbeth’s acquiring the throne. As he realizes that he does not agree with Macbeth’s reign, he decides to leave his family behind in Fife to go to England to find Malcolm, the true heir to the throne. His plan is to conspire with Malcolm to build an army against Macbeth. Macduff was so loyal to Scotland and the true ruler that he was willing to abandon his family in the process of freeing Scotland from tyranny. As he meets with Malcolm, Ross delivers the news that

Macduff's ambition in this play was to be loyal to his country by taking out Macbeth. Too much of his time is spent plotting against Macbeth, which throws off Macduff’s values. He abandons his family and left for England to find Malcolm so he could wage war against Macbeth. Later, Macbeth hears that the recent absence of Macduff at the banquet and at Duncan’s funeral was because he had fled to England, to find Malcolm. So Macbeth reacts to this by sending murderers to kill Macduff's family. Once Macduff finds out that his family is dead, he starts to exhibit some emotion. At this time he is about to wage war on Macbeth with Malcolm; Malcolm say's to Macduff "Dispute it like a man"(4.3.259). Macduff then replies,

In the beginning of the play, we see that Macduff is barely mentioned in Act I, but his intelligence can be noted when he hears about King Duncan’s death. When the Scottish nobles are going to welcome Macbeth as the new king of Scotland, Macduff is skeptical of how King Duncan’s death will change the story throughout the play. At first, Macduff agrees with the fact that Malcolm and Donalbain are most likely suspects in the murder of their father because someone saw them fled the scene

By the end of the play Macbeth had become to cocky about his skills and what the apparitions told him. When he meets Macduff at the end of the play, instead of running away like he should have he taunts Macduff about the fact that he can not kill him. That is until Macduff says this:

This quote shows the urgency of Macduff to go see the King right away even though he does not know what has been done Duncan. Shakespeare does this right after the murder to show the presence of Macbeths evil is what brought Macduff to existence in the first place and to cement a future hero in Macduff.

3) Macduff arrives to England to guide Malcolm back to Scotland in order to stop Macbeth. Malcolm believes that this is another trick to lure him back for Macbeth. To test Macduff’s allegiance, he questions as to why Macbeth would abandon his family unprotected and continues to list reasons why he would be worse than Macbeth. “ Nay, had I power, I should/Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,/Uproar the universal peace,

Another flaw of Macbeth’s readers can learn from was his internal conflict and jealousy of anyone who could possibly come in between him and crown. Macbeth was often threatened by other people who could possibly take the crown from him. The first time the reader can see this jealousy arise was when Macduff said, “Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter, Prince of Cumberland;” (1.4.38-39). Macbeth’s first reaction was to fear the whole family line of Macduff. This intimidation lead to one of Macbeth’s most careless destructive decision when he

She thinks that he had left them because he was frightened and that he doesn’t care about his family. After Ross leaves, she says to her son that his father had died. He does not believe her, for if he was really dead, she would be weeping for him. If she wasn’t, he would know that he would quickly have a new father. It’s not that Macduff doesn’t care about his family, but he went off to England to recruit help from Malcolm to help save the country from the tyrant Macbeth. He knows that he shouldn’t have left his family so unprotected, but he had to leave as soon as possible so to end the suffering of the people under Macbeth’s rule. One significant example, (that isn’t in this scene) where Macduff shows his love and sympathy for his family, is when he starts to weep after Ross tells him the bad news about their murder. Therefore, he did actually really care about his family, but for that moment, he cared more about his

On page 121, Macbeth declares he will kill everyone in Macduff’s household by saying, “The castle of Macduff I will surprise,/Seize upon Fife, give to th’edge o’th’ sword/His wife, his babies, and all unfortunate souls/That trace him in his line. No boasting like a fool;/This deed I'll do before this purpose cool./But no more sights!- Where are these gentlemen?/Come, bring me where they are.” (4.1.150-156) In this quote, Macbeth is telling the reader/audience he is going to send someone to kill Macduff’s household in order to bring him back to Scotland. Macbeth has no hesitation about committing this murder, unlike the other two. He is doing this so he won’t seem weak and so he’ll have a better chance at remaining in power.

In contrast, Shakespeare presents Macduff as a brave and loyal hero. He is a Thane of Scotland who turns on Macbeth to replace him with the rightful king. After hearing his wife’s death he becomes brave by not letting it bother him. A key scene that shows this is in Act 4 Scene 3 when Macduff shows his bravery. Shakespeare uses characterisation to convey how Macduff maintains his composure and desire to destroy Macbeth after hearing the bad news. This is seen in the quote,”Front to front, bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself,” Another scene in 4:3 shows Macduff proving his loyalty to Malcolm. Shakespeare uses truncated sentences to create tension and to make a point that Malcolm needs to save Scotland. This is seen in the quote, “Fit to govern? No, not to live. O nation miserable!” These quotes highlight Macduff’s heroic actions, thus showing bravery and loyalty.

In this act, one reads about Macduff leaving his family to travel to England to speak with Malcolm, Duncan’s son. Yet back home in Macduff’s castle, Lady Macduff comes across with Ross, she begs him to tell her why her husband has left her at such a time. Lady Macduff feel’s as if her husband has betrayed him, she jokes with her son, that his father is dead, but he argues and knows he is not. A messenger then rushes into the act, warning her that she is in danger and urges her to leave the castle, but she believe she has done nothing wrong and has nothing to fear. At this time Macbeth’s murderers come in and do as Macbeth’s orders were, to kill everyone in the castle who does not tell them where Macduff is.

In the monologue, it seems that Malcolm’s main purpose is to make Macduff realize that Malcolm was untruthful when he claimed to have immoral qualities unfit for a king and present himself as loyal to his country and even Macduff. He begins by explaining that Macduff’s “noble passion, / Child of integrity,” his honorable outburst, has replaced his suspicions about Macduff with reverence (4.3.133-4). He then mentions, almost as an excuse, that “[d]evilish Macbeth / By many of these trains hath sought to win me / Into his power” (lines 136-8). This also references to how Malcolm feels about the current king of Scotland a well as an earlier occasion between Malcolm and Macbeth. Next, Malcolm spends the rest of the monologue attempting to clear the lies “[he] laid upon [him]self” (143). He mentions the lies he told earlier by explaining how he is the opposite of them as well as stating them in the same order in which he spoke them dishonestly (144-9). For example, he first claimed that he was incredibly lustful and would rape women, then, correspondingly, he begins to redeem himself by saying, “I am yet / Unknown to woman” (144-5). Given the monologue’s literal meaning, it does not seem, at least on the surface, that Malcolm is presenting himself in any way but as an honorable gentleman, however, much is revealed about his emotional state, especially in the last line when he tells Macduff that he “[i]s thine . . . to command” (151), as he completely opens