Macbeth

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• Married to Lady Macduff
• Discovers the dead body of Duncan
• Allies himself with Malcolm
• Kills Macbeth in battle
• A relation of Ross

Macduff is a loyal thane in Duncan’s service. Unlike the treasonous Macbeth, Macduff is completely loyal to Duncan and his son Malcolm. He discovers Duncan’s body, and he soon becomes suspicious of Macbeth. Fearing Macbeth’s vengeance, he flees to England to support Malcolm in his assault on Macbeth. However, this leaves his castle, wife and children undefended, and Macbeth has Macduff’s family killed. This spurs on his anger and desire to restore Scotland. Macduff is finally able to kill Macbeth as he was, as the witches’ prophecy stated, “from his mother’s womb untimely ripped”.

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1. Macbeth

   

   Lay on, Macduff;
   And damned be him that first cries, ‘Hold, enough!’ (5.8. 33-4)

2. Macbeth

   

   I’ll not fight with thee. (5.8. 22)

3. Macbeth

   

   Of all men else I have avoided thee. (5.8. 4)

4. Malcolm

   

   Let’s make us medicines of our great revenge
   To cure this deadly grief. (4.3. 214-5)

5. Ross

   

   Your castle is surprised, your wife and babes
   Savagely slaughtered. To relate the manner
   Were on the quarry of these murdered deer
   To add the death of you. (4.3.204-7)

6. Ross

   

   Let not your ears despise my tongue for ever,
   Which shall possess them with the heaviest sound
   That ever yet they heard. (4.3.201-3)

7. Malcolm

   

   This noble passion,
   Child of integrity, hath from my soul
   Wiped the black scruples, reconciled my thoughts
   To thy good truth and honour. (4.3. 115-7)

8. Malcolm

   

   Why in that rawness left you wife and child
   (Those precious motives, those strong knots of love),
   Without leave-taking? –I pray you,
   Let not my jealousies be your dishonours,
   But mine own safeties: you may be rightly just,
   Whatever I shall think. (4.3.26-8)

9. Lady Macduff

   

   Wisdom! To leave his wife, his babes,
   His mansion, and his titles, in a place
   From whence himself does fly? He loves us not. (4.2.5-8)

10. Macbeth

    

    The castle of Macduff I will surprise,
    Seize upon Fife, give to the edge o’the sword
    His wife his babes, and all unfortunate souls
    That trace him in his line. (4.1. 149-152)

11. Macbeth

    

    Let’s briefly put on manly readiness,
    And meet i’th’hall together. (2.3.131-2)

12. Lady Macbeth

    

    Dear Duff, I pr’ythee, contradict thyself,
    And say, it is not so. (2.3.86-8)

13. Lady Macbeth

    

    What’s the business,
    That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley
    The sleepers of the house? speak, speak! (2.3.79-81)

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