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This is a powerpoint presentation I created to introduce the many characters of Macbeth to my 10th grade English class.

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Characters in Macbeth

Kate Rogers - Shaker High School - 2007

A Who’s Who Guide

Macbeth

• Brave general but too ambitious

• He turns to evil, killing the King, guards, Banquo, and anyone else who stands in his way

• Macbeth dies at the hands of Macduff

Lady Macbeth

• Vicious and ambitious wife of Macbeth

• She convinces Macbeth to murder the King

• Guilt drives her crazy• She sleepwalks• She dies

Banquo

• Macbeth’s friend and general

• Suspected Macbeth of killing the King

• He is killed by murderers sent by Macbeth, though his son escapes

Fleance

• Banquo’s son• If what the witches say

is true, he and his heirs will be King some day

• Escapes the plot to murder him and his father

• Fleance flees

Macduff

• Scottish general• Believes that Macbeth

killed the King • His family is

murdered by Macbeth• Not of “woman born”• He later kills Macbeth

Lady Macduff

• Macduff’s wife• Represents

Elizabethan ideals of womanhood

• She and children are killed by Macbeth because her husband is disloyal

King Duncan

• Good King of Scotland

• Murdered by Macbeth• Nature goes wild on

the night of his murder

Malcolm

• Duncan’s eldest son• Prince of Cumberland• Runs away to England • Raises army to

overthrow Macbeth• Becomes King of

Scotland at the end of the play.

Donalbain

• King Duncan’s younger son

• Malcolm’s the heir, he’s the spare

• Flees to Ireland

Porter

• Servant in Macbeth’s castle: doorkeeper

• When drunk, thought that he was the keeper of Hell’s Gates

• Adds comic relief

Witches

• Stereotypical evil hags• They tell Macbeth that

he is to become King, tempting him to evil

• They disguise their prophecies to give him false confidence

Hecate

• Greek moon goddess and goddess of the witches

• Directs supernatural occurrences

• Makes plan to give Macbeth false security

Lennox

• Scottish nobleman• Suspicious of the

murder of the king

Ross

• Macduff’s cousin• Messenger who carries

news to people like Macbeth and Macduff throughout the play

Other Characters

• Seyton: Macbeth’s lieutenant

• Old Siward: Earl of Northumberland, ally of Malcolm

• Young Siward: Old Siward’s son, killed by Macbeth at the end of the play

Bibliography• Macbeth: http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/images/theatre/macbeth-creation-blood.jpg

• Lady Macbeth: http://www.longoverdue.co.uk/Macbeth-Lady%20Macbeth.jpg

• Banquo: http://www.andsewitwas.com/MB_banqou02.jpg

• Fleance: http://www.kingschester.co.uk/images/pictures/JSsnowqueen/snow2.jpg

• Macduff: http://diarmid.com/Pages/Highlanders/sutherland.htm• Lady Macduff: http://mustard.tapor.uvic.ca/~iseadmin/sipmedia/productions/shsask_2004_Mac/

shsask_2004_mac_lady_macduff_anguss.jpg

• King Duncan: http://www.boazfamilytree.com/gneville/images/William%20the%20Conqueror%202.jpg

• Malcolm: http://www.pathguy.com/olivier_macbeth.jpg

• Donalbain: http://www.szinhaz.hu/boritamas/images/macbeth.JPG

• Porter: http://www.mgrhs.org/site/images/porter1.jpg• Witches: http://www.blazer.ashland.k12.ky.us/Academics/English/Stepp/images/witches.jpg

• Hecate: http://www.pioneertheatre.org/images/archives/2002/macbeth.jpg

• Lennox: http://pretallez.com/onstage/theatre/broadway/macbeth/images/mb20.jpg

• Ross: http://www.coronadoplayhouse.com/macbeth/showphotos/ross.jpg

• Other Characters: http://www.thelivery.ca/Macbeth-victory.jpg

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