Analysis Malcolm Telling Macduff

“If good, why do I yield to that suggestion./My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical/Shakes so my single state of man,” (Shakespeare, 38). His ultimate goal was to become the great king of Scotland. Macbeth was committed to getting rid of anyone who threatened him. Macduff wanted to free the country of the tyrant Macbeth. Malcolm was his only hope for helping the country.

He sees him in hope of rebelling against Macbeth’s rule. To make sure that his loyalty is in the right place, he pretends to be lustful, greedy and violent. This suggests that he is an even worse fit for the throne than Macbeth (Shakespeare, 4, 3, 144-145). At this moment, Macduff uses deception but with good intentions. He wants to make sure that Malcolm is with him to end Macbeth’s rule.

Although Malcolm may not appear to be virtuous in this scene, he is very much so. At the beginning of the play, Duncan does not test the loyalty of Macdonwald and Macbeth. As a result, Duncan is betrayed by these two men who appeared to be honourable. Malcolm learns from his father 's mistakes and tests MacDuff 's patriotism. Malcolm states he does not contain any qualities of a virtuous king and that he would destroy all peace on earth. When MacDuff has a passionate outburst, Malcolm reveals the truth that he is in fact an honourable man because he is able to identify that MacDuff is a "child of integrity" (Shakespeare 4.3.129). This proves that Malcolm is in fact a virtuous king because he is not easily fooled like Duncan. Instead, Malcolm is a cautious and knowledgeable man who is likely to be a successful king. With a new honourable and sincerely virtuous

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

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.

Scotland was not Macduff’s responsibility, but his family was. Not even Malcolm put Scotland above his own family’s safety. When his father had been murdered, the first thought Malcolm had was not to take his place as king or protect the country, but to protect his younger brother. He recommends they separate as that “Shall keep us both [Malcolm and Donalbain] the safer.” (2.4.164).

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.

He tries to make Macduff believe that he will be a worse tyrant than Macbeth. Macduff replies, "Not in the legions of horrid hell can come a devil more damned in evils, to top Macbeth. However Malcolm continues with the words, "but I have none: the king - becoming graces as justice, verity, temperance…," At this point Macduff feels Malcolm could be a worse tyrant than Macbeth and could not compare with Duncan, a 'Most sainted king.' Malcolm then reveals that he has been testing Macduff. Malcolm then withdraws all he has said about himself.

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

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,

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

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.

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.

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

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.