Extraordinary Characters
Larger Than Life Characters
- Kings, Queens, Bishops
- Special place in society
- Best/Worst: Extremes
- Personalities or achievements
- Virtue and vice
- Heroes and heroines
- Ambition, generosity, malevolence,f
fear, and achievement
Macbeth
Faustus
Cleopatra
Mixture-Virtue & Vice
Scholar who makes
compact with the devil
for power.
Peasant who becomes commander of army.
Noblewoman
Ambitious
Vain, Slefish, also has
Immortal longings
(Mixture Virtue & Vice)
Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth by John Singer Sargent
By Tessa Thompson