Macduff’s selflessness, love, and pride for his country are what make him to be the hero of the play. Macduff is a thane, and unlike Macbeth and Banquo, his first priority is the good of Scotland.

Macduff is portrayed as the most heroic and noble character in the play Macbeth, who ultimately saves Scotland. Although Banquo is selfish, he is nowhere near the level of evil of Macbeth, and he never meant any harm to anyone, for these reasons he is not a hero or a villain, just neutral.

Banquo is a strong believer of fate so he doesn’t reveal the truth about Macbeth murdering the king to anyone he cares more about the well being of himself than the good of Scotland which is where he gets his evil.īanquo is naive and ultimately meant no harm, he just wanted success for his kid, and I believe that if Banquo could see the turnout of the whole play he would have done the right thing and stopped Macbeth when he could. He is considered neutral because he doesn’t do anything to directly hurt anyone like Macbeth, but his selfishness indirectly causes many preventable deaths. Banquo is portrayed as a neutral character, not a hero or a villain he falls right between the two. Macbeth made many bad decisions and ended up fighting to keep his position of king, not letting anything get in his way.īanquo is a very different character from both Macbeth and Macduff with very different beliefs and priorities. He became the villain when he killed the king, and then got more evil when he killed his best friend Banquo, and reached his peak when he murdered Macduff’s wife and child. Throughout the play Macbeth gets more and more evil and eventually you think of him as the villain of the play. Once he got the hope of becoming king in his head he couldn’t get it out, and with a push from his wife he went through with it, and took every step necessary. If the witches never told Macbeth that it was fate for him to be king, he never would have thought of killing the king, or any of the other people he murdered. Macbeths thirst for power was brought on by the witches and there prophecies, and ultimately they killed the king. Most people don’t have heart or dedication to go through with something so evil and would not be willing to do the things he did, it just shows how bad he actually wanted the throne. He first kills the king so he can get the throne, and then kills his best friend to make sure he won’t tell. The main ambition that we see is his ambition to become the king of Scotland, he wants more than anything to become king and will do anything to get there.

Macbeth is a very unique character, the thing that differentiates the most from the other characters is the amount of ambition he has. Macbeth is the main character in the play who seems to make all the wrong decisions, he is ambitious, thirsty for power, and ultimately, evil. Macduff is a strong, selfless character whose first priority is the good of Scotland.Īll three characters have different beliefs and are fighting for different things their choices change them and make them all have a different title, hero, or villain. Banquo plays a neutral role he is loyal but capable of some evil. Macbeth is an ambitious Thane who lets his greed and thirst for power overcome his loyalty. These three characters have some similarities, but ultimately are very different in the choices and decisions they make, and all play a different role in this play. Macbeth, Banquo, and Macduff are three characters in Shakespears tragedy, Macbeth.

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