JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. Click the character infographic to download. Duncan is the King of Scotland, but he might as well be your dad. We should all be so lucky: he's kind, generous, benevolent, and just a little weepier than you might expect from a noble warrior and king. Is this the man who should be king?
Duncan is totally the Early Modern version of a sensitive, New Age guy. Post-battle, when he's chilling with his advisors, he can't contain himself: "O valiant cousin! But—did he fight at all? Or did he just sit around, waiting for everyone else to do the disemboweling?
My plenteous joys, Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow. In some ways, they resemble the mythological Fates, who impersonally weave the threads of human destiny. They clearly take a perverse delight in using their knowledge of the future to toy with and destroy human beings. Read an in-depth analysis of The Three Witches. Like Macbeth, Banquo thinks ambitious thoughts, but he does not translate those thoughts into action.
The good King of Scotland whom Macbeth, in his ambition for the crown, murders. Duncan is the model of a virtuous, benevolent, and farsighted ruler.
He eventually becomes a leader of the crusade to unseat Macbeth. The scene in her castle provides our only glimpse of a domestic realm other than that of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. She and her home serve as contrasts to Lady Macbeth and the hellish world of Inverness. Ace your assignments with our guide to Macbeth! Jekyll and Mr. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Are the Witches in Macbeth real?
Did Macbeth always want to be king? Why does Macbeth think the Witches want to help him? Does Lady Macbeth commit suicide? A servant enters with news that Duncan will spend the night, then exits. Lady Macbeth says Duncan 's visit will be fatal, and Macbeth enters, and says Duncan will spend the night and leave the next day.
Lady Macbeth says Duncan will never Act 1, scene 6. Duncan comments on the Lady Macbeth warmly greets the King and the thanes, though Macbeth is nowhere to be seen. Act 1, scene 7. Macbeth, alone, agonizes about whether to kill Duncan. He'd be willing to murder Duncan if he thought that would be the end of Lady Macbeth enters, asking where he's been.
Macbeth tells her they won't murder Duncan. She questions his manhood. Macbeth replies: "I dare do all that may become a man; She outlines the plan: she'll give Duncan 's bedroom attendants enough wine to ensure they black out from drunkenness.
Then she and Macbeth Act 2, scene 1. Offstage, Lady Macbeth rings the bell to signal that Duncan 's attendants are asleep. Macbeth goes to murder Duncan.
Act 2, scene 2. She comments that had the sleeping Duncan not looked like her father she'd have killed him herself. Macbeth enters. He's killed Duncan and Duncan 's attendants. His hands are bloodstained and he's upset that when one of the Macbeth refuses to return to the scene of the crime. Lady Macbeth, furious, runs off Macbeth wishes that the knocking could wake Duncan. Act 2, scene 3.
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