Sense of Triumph at the end?

[Unknown.]

Who has the greater sense of triumph by the end of the play? Malcom or Macduff? Examples would help =D

[JBI]

Malcolm, Macduff is a wuss who doesn't have the ambition to take the throne, even though it is easily in his power. In the end Macbeth beats Macduff even from the grave, since he has already killed his family. Whereas Malcolm still has stuff to live for, I would say Macduff really has nothing to live for, and therefore ends up losing regardless of the victory.

[Redzeppelin]

Malcolm, Macduff is a wuss who doesn't have the ambition to take the throne, even though it is easily in his power. In the end Macbeth beats Macduff even from the grave, since he has already killed his family. Whereas Malcolm still has stuff to live for, I would say Macduff really has nothing to live for, and therefore ends up losing regardless of the victory.


Sorry - I beg to differ. Shakespeare gave us subtle hints that Malcolm was not fit to rule (hence Macbeth's disdain for him expressed in act 5 and utter shock in 1.4 when Duncan named him heir to the throne). Macduff has the satisfaction of enacting revenge and assisting the restoration of natural order to the universe by helping put the "rightful" king ("rightful" because of the king's selection of him) back on the throne. Malcolm has done little of note in the play except flee Scotland, wait for word from Scotland, then come back with soldiers who fought for him.

[Tabriz]

Macduff is a wuss who doesn't have the ambition to take the throne, even though it is easily in his power.

In my opinion, Macduff sound not be deemed a 'wuss' for not taking the throne. I believe he had the ambition to take the throne, but he choose not to act on it. Therefore, seperating his actions and highlighting the differences between him and Macbeth. He shows his true loyality to King and country by handing the throne to Malcolm.

Malcolm honestly does very little for his country and it is mainly through Macduff's actions that he even ends up on the throne.

[Gladys]

Macduff is a wuss who doesn't have the ambition to take the throne

A wus? Macduff is a psychopath who abandons his wife, son, relatives and servants to the fury of Macbeth. Why? To experience a patriotic high...loyal lunacy! Even the tyrant Macbeth was protective of his less-deserving wife.

Can empathy or warmth really be expected from one who describes his own birth as “from his mother's womb untimely ripp'd”?