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Macbeth character adjectives!

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  • 17-04-2009 6:48pm
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    eoins2345
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    Right I was thinking get a list of adjectives for the characters in Macbeth and a quote to back it up just to get different viewpoints across so everyone can get a few ideas for june.I'l get the ball rolling.

    "The weird sisters"-mendacious,deceitful-"palter us with a double sense"


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    Amirani
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    Macbeth: Ambitious - "Vaulting ambition". Valiant - "Bellona's bridegroom"

    Lady Macbeth: Cunning - "Look like the innocent flower...", Tormented - "All the perfumes of Arabia..."

    Duncan: Weak - "There's no art to find the mind's construction...", Innocent - "Clear in his great office"


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    Piste
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    Deadly idea, I always find myself searching for words that I know I know, but I use so rarely I can't think of them!

    Some of the adjectives may contradict eachother, but you can always say "and he moves from being X to being Y"

    Macbeth
    ambitious
    ruthless
    moral (at the beginning, at least!)
    loyal (again, beginning)
    treacherous
    gullible (witches' prophesies)
    regretful

    Lady Macbeth
    cunning
    ruthless
    tortured
    regretful
    loyal (to Macbeth)

    Duncan
    Naive
    Innocent
    Gullible
    Virtuous
    Trusting
    Kind


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    eoins2345
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    Malcolm-Virtuous
    Loyal
    Sovereign
    Saintly

    The Witches-Ambiguous
    -Untrustworthy
    -Fallacious
    -evil,nefarious


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