King Duncan spread peace over Scotland and protected the people unlike Macbeth who made Scotland completely unstable and spread a feeling on insecurity amongst the people. King Duncan describes the Captain (Act 1, Scene 2 Line 44) who was fighting for him against the Norwegians. This shows a combination of courage, loyalty and truthfulness. The openness and sincerity is shown in the way he praises all the people who deserve it. We also see that he enjoys the achievements of others and his gifts are not given to gain his own benefit.
King Duncan clearly inspires loyalty in his thanes. Even Macbeth was loyal to him as we have o take in count the circumstances he went through (the witches, Lady Macbeth). King Duncan said himself that it is impossible to see the mind’s construction in the face (Act 1, Scene 4, Line 12-15), but this does not cause him to behave with a little more care. I think that King Duncan is a significant figure in this play because it is because of him that Macbeth wanted to become king. Macbeth wanted to be all that King Duncan was.
MACDUFF
Macduff, Thane of Fife: a Scottish nobleman who begins to question Macbeth's tyrannical rule. He flees his home and becomes allied with Malcolm and the English forces in opposing Macbeth. The Scottish nobleman hostile to Macbeth’s kingship from the start eventually becomes a leader of the crusade to unseat Macbeth. The crusade’s mission is to place the rightful king, Malcolm, on the throne, but Macduff also desires vengeance for Macbeth’s murder of Macduff’s wife and young son. Correctly, it is MacDuff who discovers Duncan’s murdered body, and becomes his retaliator. He is a man of strong and emotional properties. He is suspicious of Macbeth- challenging him of why he killed the guards, and then refrained from the coronation at Scone. MacDuff seems like the character that is very passionate about justice; he simply didn’t predict the savagery that Macbeth was going to do to his family. However one thing is clear and that is the love for his family. His reaction to their deaths was one of the most moving scenes in the play. Later on, when haunted by their ghost, he was determined to kill Macbeth. With a sole and deadly purpose, just like that of Macbeth’s, MacDuff confronts his enemy and proves his courage and strength.
PORTER
A Porter, in Macbeth's service: provides comic relief with his account of "hell-pottering”. Porter: watches Macbeth’s castle; when drunk, thought that he was the keeper of Hell’s Gates and that sinners were knocking at the door to be admitted. A Porter, in Macbeth's service: provides comic relief with his account of "hell-porteringporter: watches Macbeth’s castle; when drunk, thought that he was the keeper of Hell’s Gates and that sinners were knocking at the door to be admitted. He is a lowlife type of character- drunk, obscene, chatty. The wonder is in how Shakespeare bends even the porter’s language to serve the themes of the play-whilst at the same time giving Macbeth an opportunity to wash and change clothing before reappearing on stage. Some actors who play the porter ad-lib jokes about contemporary events: other exploit the sexual reference’s to the full or tell ‘knock knock’ jokes. The main aim of the porter in the play is to provide some relief in the play (Act2, Scene 3, Lines 1-17, 20-21, 23-30, and 32-34). In the scene just before this, Macbeth had just murdered Duncan and so much has been happening that the porter comes in to give some relief.