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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

Actions Lady Macbeth arrived at the “For it they must seem their
crime scene of Duncan’s murder guilt”
and framed the soldier whose
only job is to be a guard. Macbeth 1

Speech “Inform of purpose”

Lady Macbeth thinks Macbeth Macbeth 1

is lacking in fighting

Thoughts “ Your constancy hath left you

unattended”
Lady Macbeth thinks deeply
about how Macbeth is feeling Macbeth 2
anxious and give in as the killer

Interactions Lady Macbeth expresses how “My hands are of your color,
she feels with her husband    but I shame to wear a heart so
about how she has hidden the while”
murder and maintain them from
being prosecuted Macbeth 3
Descriptive Adjectives I would personally describe
Lady Macbeth as a serious
woman who leads on her
husband and won’t stop until
she gets whatever she wants
“Nor time nor place Did then
adhere, and yet you would make
both: they have made
themselves, and their fitness
now Does unmake you”

Macbeth

Characterization Text Support

Actions

Speech

Thoughts

Interactions

Descriptive Adjectives