By: Mrs. Chalk
Act I; Scene I
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 3 witches
 “Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Hover through the fog
and filthy air.”
 Appearances can be deceiving
 They realize everyone has a flaw and they want to
find out what Macbeth’s is.
Act I; Scene II
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 Scotland and Norway are at war
 King Duncan and Malcolm are waiting for a war
update
 Captain comes and says Macdonwald is a traitor
Act I; Scene II
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 Pg 303, line 21-23 (Said by the Captain) “Which nev’r
shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, till he unseamed
him from the nave to th’ chops, and fixed his head upon
battlements.
 This quote shows that Macbeth is loyal, courageous,
and overcomes great odds in battle.
 Macbeth stabbed him in the navel and cut him in half
 Put his head on a stake on the battlefield
Act I; Scene II
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Ross and Lennox come in and say Norway
has surrendered and the Thane of Cawdor
was a traitor
 King of Norway pays reparations (debt)
 Thane of Cawdor is executed
 Macbeth receives his title
Act I; Scene III
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 Know the quotes about the witches cursing the sailor
 The first witch asks a woman for chestnuts
 The woman says no, so the witch puts a spell on her
husband
 He will be lost at sea
 He will have no water
 He will never sleep again
Act I; Scene III
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 Pg 306, (Said by Macbeth) “So foul and fair a day I
have not seen
 The day is both bad and good.
 Good: He (Macbeth) had to kill another to save his king
and his country
 Bad: He does not like the fact that he had to kill another
human being
Act I; Scene III
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 Macbeth and Banquo walk past the witches.
 To Macbeth:
 You are the Thane of Cawdor
 You will be king
 To Banquo:
 Lesser than Macbeth and greater
 Not so happy, but much happier
 He will be the father of kings
Act I; Scene III
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 Ross and Angus come and tell Macbeth the outcome
of the war (that he is now the Thane of Cawdor)
 Macbeth is confused about what has happened
 He is shocked that the witches were correct
 Banquo is very cautious
 He knows something would have to happen to the
king and both sons
 Macbeth says he will not do anything to help himself
to be king; if it happens, it happens
Act I; Scene IV
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 Pg 310, line 12-14 (Said by King Duncan) “There’s no
art to find the mind’s construction in the face: He
was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust.”
 This is said after Duncan finds out the old Thane of
Cawdor has been executed
 He regrets his decision to have him killed; finds it a
misjudgment on his part
 This will later be shown to begin the path to Duncan’s
undoing
Act I; Scene V
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 Begins with Lady Macbeth reading a letter sent by
her husband
 Pg 312, line 15-16 (Said by Lady Macbeth) “It is too
full o’ th’ milk of human kindness to catch the nearst
way.”
 She believes he has the ambition to be a great king.
However, she believes that her husband is far too kind
to carry out the duties of a king.
Act I; Scene V
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 Lady Macbeth thinks she can talk Macbeth into
doing something (like commit murder) to make him
king and her queen
 She tells Macbeth that the murder of King Duncan
should happen at night so that no one will know
 She is pushing the idea of murdering King Duncan
onto Macbeth
Act I; Scene VI
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 The king likes Macbeth’s castle (home) and loves
Macbeth
 Banquo notices the bird’s nest in a dangerous spot
outside Macbeths home
 This gives us the foreshadowing that something
terrible/dangerous is going to take place inside of
Macbeth’s home
Act I; Scene VII
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 Macbeth is alone and is thinking about King Duncan.
 Pg 317, line 79-82 (said by Macbeth) “I am settled,
and bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat.
Away, and mock the time with the fairest show;
False face must hide what the false heart doth
know.”
 Macbeth has decided to go through with killing
Duncan
 Tells his wife to act like they love the king very much
Act II; Scene I
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 It is extra dark outside, the moon and stars are not
shining
 Banquo is exhausted, but does not sleep because of
an uneasy feeling he has about something
 Banquo is having dreams about the three witches
 Macbeth says that he doesn’t think about what the
witches told him (LIE!!!!)
Act II; Scene I
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 Pg 319, line 27-30 (said by Banquo) “So I lose none in
seeking to augment it, but still keep my bosom
franchised and allegiance clear I shall be counseled.”
 Macbeth has basically asked Banquo if he will always
have Macbeth’s back.
 Banquo answers that he can as long as the situation is
good.
 He can possibly have his back with something bad, but
he is not making Macbeth any promises
Act II; Scene I
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 Lady Macbeth has run the bell, symbolizing and
foreshadowing the oncoming death of King Duncan
 Pg 320, line 33-34 (said by Macbeth) “Is this a dagger
which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?
Come, let me clutch thee.”
 This is part of a hallucination that Macbeth is having.
 He sees a floating dagger (handle toward him)with the
blade pointing towards Duncan’s room
Act II; Scene II
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 Lady Macbeth, who had decided she was going to
kill Duncan, does not go through with the murder
 She does not go through with the murder because
Duncan reminds her of her father
 Macbeth kills Duncan
 He believed he heard the others talking (attendants
who he kills)
 He immediately regrets what he has done
 Feels like he is far away from God because of what he
has done
Act II; Scene II
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 Pg 323, line 34-35 (said by Macbeth) “Methought I
heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does
murder sleep”
 He thinks he will never sleep again
 Sleep can heal you, but he has committed a crime so
awful that he will never rest again.
 He gave Duncan no choice and killed him in his sleep
 He knows that people could come after him.
Act II; Scene II
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 Macbeth comes to the room where Lady Macbeth is.
 He still has the dagger with him
 His hands are bloody
 Lady Macbeth tells him they will wash their hands of
this murder
 Scene ends with knocking on their door.
 Its early in the morning
 Lady Macbeth and Macbeth have not slept at all that
night
Act II; Scene III
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 Macduff and Lennox have come to wake up the king
and get him ready for his day
 It has been very stormy during the night and the
morning
 The storm came out of nowhere
 There were animal cries
 The owl cried (symbol for entering hell)
 Macbeth takes them to the king’s room
 Macduff goes in and finds that the king is dead
Act II; Scene II
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 Banquo steps up and calls everyone into action
 The sons, Malcolm and Donalbain, do not know who
they can trust
 Malcolm goes to England
 Donalbain goes to Ireland
 This was a poor decision on their part
 This make them look suspicious to outsiders
Act II; Scene IV
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 The storm is not normal
 It is dark during the day
 The falcon was attacked and killed by an owl
 Duncan’s horses were attacking the people and other
horses
 Duncan’s horses were eating the people and horses they
were attacking
 Everything is unnatural
Act III; Scene I
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 Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are now king and queen
 Macbeth meets with two murderers that Banquo has
put away
 Going to release the murders so that they can kill (seek
revenge for themselves) Banquo
 Macbeth lets them know the when and where to
murder Banquo and Fleance
 Macbeth and his wife had invited Banquo and his son
to a feast in his honor
Act III; Scene II
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 Lady Macbeth believes that “what’s done is done”
 She tells Macbeth that he should not think about
Duncan anymore
 Macbeth is planning on getting rid of (killing)
Banquo and his son, Fleance, but is not going to tell
his wife
 He wants to keep her innocent of this terrible deed
Act III; Scene III
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 The murder
 A third murderer shows up
 It is night
 Banquo and Fleance walked their horses to the castle
instead of riding them
 The torch goes out and they cannot see
 The murderers attack
 Banquo is killed
 Fleance escapes
Act III; Scene IV
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 Murder comes and tells Macbeth that Banquo is dead
(with 20 stab wounds in the head) but Fleance got
away
 Compares Fleance to a worm
 He is harmless now
 Eventually he will become a snake with venom
(revenge seeking for his father’s death)
Act III; Scene IV
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 Macbeth does not sit at the head of the table
 He is trying to seem humble
 Banquo’s ghost is sitting in Macbeth’s chair
 Seeing Banquo the way he got left in the ditch
 Lady Macbeth says it is something that he has done
as a child (talking to ghosts no one else can see)
 Macbeth says the way the ghost looks and the way
he is looking at him is like he is accusing Macbeth of
the murder
Act III; Scene IV
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 Ross questions what Macbeth is looking at
 Lady Macbeth screams for everyone to leave
 Macbeth realizes that he will get what he deserves in
the end
 Side note: Macbeth sees that Macduff did not attend
the feast
Act III; Scene IV
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 Macbeth is not enjoying being king
 He is paying his servants to spy on everyone
 He is worried there are people conspiring against him
 Macbeth is making a plan to go and see the three
witches again
Act III; Scene V
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 This scene is thought to be written by someone else
 Someone other than William Shakespeare
 Hecate says Macbeth is being evil for himself
 Macbeth’s over confidence will be his ultimate
downfall
Act III; Scene VI
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 Macbeth wants everyone to think that the sons have
killed their fathers
 Malcolm/Donalbain: Duncan- Fleance: Banquo
 Lennox does not believe that
 Lennox said that Macbeth is the murderer and if the
sons were there, Macbeth would kill them too
 Macduff goes to Malcolm and Edward the Confessor
to try to overthrow Macbeth
 Macbeth sends for Macduff with no response
Act IV; Scene I
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 The witches are literally stirring up evil
 “Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn and
caldron bubble”
 Macbeth goes to the witches and asks what is going
to happen
 They come and decide to call on spirits
 Add blood from a pig that has killed her own piglets
Act IV; Scene I
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 1st apparition
 A floating head with armor
 “Beware Macduff”
 2nd apparition
 A bloody child
 No man born of woman can harm him
 3rd apparition
 A child crowned hold a tree
 You will be king until the forest attacks the castle
Act IV; Scene I
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 4th apparition
 A line of eight kings and Banquo with the last king
holding a mirror
 Banquo is bloody
 In the mirror there is only Banquo’s reflection
 “He will be the father of kings”
Act IV; Scene I
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 Lennox comes in and clarifies that Macduff is
England with Malcolm
 Macbeth is mad
 He is going to go to Macduff’s castle and kill his wife,
children, and everyone else in the house
 This is showing us how evil Macbeth has really become
Act IV; Scene II
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 Lady Macduff is upset with her husband for leaving
the family unprotected
 Ross tries to explain that he has left so that he can
better the whole country and make it safe for
everyone
 Lady Macduff and her son are talking about Macduff
 Calling him a traitor for leaving his family
Act IV; Scene II
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 A messenger goes to Macduff’s house to warn the
Lady about danger
 Pg 359 (said by Lady Macduff) “Whither should I
fly? I have done no harm. But I remember now I am
in this earthly world, where to do harm is often
laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous
folly.”
 There is no escape in a world where evil acts are
rewarded and good acts are looked over.
Act IV; Scene III
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 Macduff and Malcolm are talking
 Malcolm doesn’t really trust Macduff because he
used to be with Macbeth and Macduff left his family
under Macbeth’s rule
 Malcolm say not only is he suspicious of Macduff,
but he also has sins of his own and that MacBeth
might be better as king instead of him
Act IV; Scene III
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 Malcolm’s sins:
 Lust- he says he would sleep with every woman in the
kingdom
 Macduff says he has a good heart and they could get
him any girl he wants
 Greed-there is not enough stuff to fill him up
 Macduff thinks he would be satisfied with all that being
king gives
 No morals- he doesn’t care and would cause trouble
 Macduff says Macbeth does not deserve to be king
Act IV; Scene III
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 This whole argument was a test Malcolm was giving
Macduff to figure out if Macduff was in alliance with
Macbeth
 Macbeth has sent many people to Malcolm to get him
to come back to Scotland so that Macbeth can kill him
 Macduff is speechless.
 It was a lot to take in
 It was a surprise to switch gears so quickly
Act IV; Scene III
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 Ross comes to give them his report
 Macduff asks how his wife and kids are
 Ross says well and at peace when he left them
 Meaning: they were better off than others because they
were dead
 Macduff tells him to stop being short and tell him the
truth
 Macduff cannot wrap his head around Macbeth being
that evil
Act IV; Scene III
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 Malcolm keeps telling Macduff to get mad, angry,
and vengeful
 Malcolm cannot kill Macbeth because you have to be
pure to be king
 Malcolm needs someone else to kill Macbeth
 Macduff is that person
 Macduff tells him to let him be sad for his family
Act V; Scene I
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 The doctor comes to watch what the gentlewoman
has seen
 She gets up, writes, and talks in her sleep
 The gentlewoman will not say what Lady Macbeth is
saying in her sleep for fear of being killed
 The doctor is there to witness what Lady Macbeth is
doing/saying
 She talks about all of the murders
 She doesn’t directly confess, but it in implied
Act V; Scene I
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 Lady Macbeth seems to be trying to wash a spot off
of her hands
 There is not a spot
 It is a symbol of the guilt she feels for Duncan’s
murder
 Lady Macbeth keeps a light with her at all times
 The doctor says she needs a priest, not a physician
 The doctor promises he will never say what he has
seen or heard
Act V; Scene II
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 In the country near Dunsinane, people are getting
ready to attack the castle
 This is where the predictions from the apparitions
(spirits) start to come into effect
 Lennox, Menteith, and Caithness are all talking
about how they will attack Macbeth
 The people working for Macbeth are not really loyal
to him; they fear him
Act V; Scene III
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 The servant is afraid because he sees 10,000 men
coming towards the castle
 Macbeth is being over confident
 Seyton (Satan) is Macbeth’s right hand man
 Macbeth tells the doctor to take care of his wife and
get rid of whatever it is she has
 He is anxious about what is happening with the
soilders
Act V; Scene IV
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 The soldiers are going to are gong to grab branches
to cover themselves
 With 10,000 men carrying branches, it will look like
the forest is moving towards the castle
Act V; Scene V
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 As Macbeth is preparing for war, he finds out that
his wife has killed herself
 He is deeply saddened and realizes that nothing has
turned out the way he wanted
 The servant comes in and says “I swear it looks like
the forest is moving towards us”
 Macbeth freaks out but does not give up
Act V; Scene VI and VII
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 Macbeth is trying to get out of the castle but is
trapped
 Young Siward sees him and they fight
 Macbeth kills him
 Macbeth could have let the boy go. Most of the young
boys who have come to fight are very young and
untrained.
 They have easily taken the castle because the people
outside of the castle aren’t trying to protect it
Act V; Scene VIII
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 Macduff was born from a C-section, so technically he
was not born of woman (loop hole)
 Macduff and Macbeth start fighting
 Macbeth says he will not surrender
 He will fight to the death (it was his floating head)
 Macduff kills Macbeth
Act V; Scene VIII
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 Ross tells Malcolm and Siward that Young Siward is
dead
 Siward asks how the wounds were
 If he was hurt from the front then he was not running
away
 Macduff comes in holding Macbeth’s head
 Malcolm is king
 His brother and Fleance come back
 The Thanes become Earls