macbeth characterization graphic organizer
Macbeth Characterization Graphic Organizer
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.
Lady Macbeth Observations
Text Support
Looks
Few descriptions are given but she is thought to be a beautiful woman, who is hard to read and very serious. “fair and noble hostess…”
Actions
She shows initiative and aims to accomplish the task, helping any way she can. “Leave all the rest to me.”
Speech
She pressures Macbeth to claim what is rightfully his.
“Chastise with the valor of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round”
Thoughts
She is eager to get the plan in action and wants it to happen as soon as possible. “Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell. That my keen knife see not the wound it makes.”
Interactions
She seems irritated with Macbeth and his inability to go through with the plan. “Was the hope drunk…?”
“And wakes it now, to look so green and pale…” Macbeth Observations
Text Support
Looks
Lady Macbeth describes him to be an open book, his face being easily read “Your face, my Thane, is as a book, where men may read strange matters.”
Actions
Macbeth goes through a fluctuation of different attitudes, being both confident and doubtful. He questions his motives and regrets his decision in the end. Doubtful: “Who should against his murderer shut the door. Not bear the knife myself.”
Confident: “The deep damnation of his taking-off; and pity, like a newborn babe.”
Speech
He doubts himself and speaks as though he finds himself to be a murderer. “What hands are here?... they pluck out mine eyes!”
Thoughts
He doubts his motives and questions if he should pursue the plan. “He’s here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, strong both against the deed, then as his host.”
Interactions
He acts doubtful with his wife, making her uneasy.
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.
Lady Macbeth Observations
Text Support
Looks
Few descriptions are given but she is thought to be a beautiful woman, who is hard to read and very serious. “fair and noble hostess…”
Actions
She shows initiative and aims to accomplish the task, helping any way she can. “Leave all the rest to me.”
Speech
She pressures Macbeth to claim what is rightfully his.
“Chastise with the valor of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round”
Thoughts
She is eager to get the plan in action and wants it to happen as soon as possible. “Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell. That my keen knife see not the wound it makes.”
Interactions
She seems irritated with Macbeth and his inability to go through with the plan. “Was the hope drunk…?”
“And wakes it now, to look so green and pale…” Macbeth Observations
Text Support
Looks
Lady Macbeth describes him to be an open book, his face being easily read “Your face, my Thane, is as a book, where men may read strange matters.”
Actions
Macbeth goes through a fluctuation of different attitudes, being both confident and doubtful. He questions his motives and regrets his decision in the end. Doubtful: “Who should against his murderer shut the door. Not bear the knife myself.”
Confident: “The deep damnation of his taking-off; and pity, like a newborn babe.”
Speech
He doubts himself and speaks as though he finds himself to be a murderer. “What hands are here?... they pluck out mine eyes!”
Thoughts
He doubts his motives and questions if he should pursue the plan. “He’s here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, strong both against the deed, then as his host.”
Interactions
He acts doubtful with his wife, making her uneasy.