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06 Macbeth: Character Development

Use this graphic organizer to collect your thoughts about characterization in Macbeth. As you
read each scene, record what you learn about the character. Add the line from the play that
supports your idea.

When completing this graphic organizer, make sure your observations are in complete sentences
and your quotes are long enough to capture the sense of what is going on but not so long that
your audience can’t see the major point.

Lady Macbeth

Observations Text Support

Lady Macbeth thinks about the Thy letters have transported me beyond

Actions possibilities of Macbeth This ignorant present, and I feel now

becoming King The future in the instant

Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard

To be the same in thine own act and valor

Lady Macbeth bully’s Macbeth

Speech As thou art in desire Wouldst thou have that

into wanting to kill the King

Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,

And live a coward in thine own esteem

Macbeth Hie thee hither,

Lady Macbeth has what it

That I may pour my spirits in thine ear;

Thoughts takes to help Macbeth take the

And chastise with the valor of my tongue

crown.
All that impedes thee from the golden round
Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,

Lady Macbeth convinces But be the serpent under't. He that's coming

Interactions Macbeth to let her kill the king. Must be provided for: and you shall put

This night's great business into my dispatch

Descriptive Lady Macbeth hopes to And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full

Adjectives become cruel. Of direst cruelty

Macbeth

Observations Text Support

Macbeth leaves dinner with the
Actions He has almost supp'd: why have you left the chamber
King to think about the murder
We will proceed no further in this business):

Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought

Speech that he doesn’t want to kill the Golden opinions from all sorts of people,

King yet. Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,

Not cast aside so soon

 We still have judgment here; that we but teach

Bloody instructions, which being taught, return

Macbeth has doubts about To plague the inventor:

Thoughts killing the King. this even-handed justice

Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice

To our own lips

MACBETH.

If we should fail?

Macbeth is bullied by Lady

Interactions Macbeth to continue with the LADY MACBETH.

plan. We fail!

But screw your courage to the sticking-place,

And we'll not fail...
Your face, my thane, is as a book where men

Descriptive Lady Macbeth tells him that

May read strange matters: — to beguile the time,

Adjectives she can read his face

Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,