Read the following extract from act 1 scene 2 and answer the question that follows. at this point in the play, the scottish army, led by macbeth and banquo are fighting a norwegian invasion and a rebel army led by macdonald.

sergeant: doubtful it stood; as two spent swimmers, that do cling together and choke their art. the merciless macdonwald-- worthy to be a rebel, for to that the multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him--from the western isles of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied; and fortune, on his dam**d quarrel smiling, show'd like a rebel's wh*re: but all's too weak: for brave macbeth--well he deserves that name-- disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel, which smoked with bloody execution, like valour's minion carved out his passage till he faced the slave; which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, till he unseamed him from the nave to the chaps, and fix'd his head upon our battlements.

duncan: o valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!

starting with this excerpt above, how does shakespeare present macbeth as a powerful character?

write about: • how shakespeare presents macbeth as a powerful character in this extract • how shakespeare presents macbeth as a powerful character in the play as a whole