Macbeth

 Act I

Scene I
· Three Witches for the opening scene
· bloody battle & character Macbeth

· “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” Paradox
 
Scene II
· Duncan, King of Scotland
· King of Norway and the previous Thane of Cawdor of Scotland
· A wounded Captain reports about the battle and Macbeth’s bravery
· bloody scene of how Macbeth chops off Macdonwald's head and hangs on the battle field
· Duncan announces that they will execute the traitor (Thane of Cawdor) and give title to Macbeth

Scene III
· Witches are evil & dark
·“By each at once her choppy finger laying upon her skinny lips. You should be women, and yet that your beards forbid me to interpret....”
· The witches tell Macbeth that he is going to be offered the title of Thane of Cawdor and eventually become king
· Banquo tells Macbeth: you shouldn't be afraid of you future; and he asks the witches for his future
· Witch: “Lesser than Macbeth, and greater. Not so happy, yet much happier.” (Foreshadows); his child will be king. Then the witches refuse to say anything anymore and vanish
· After Ross  announces that Macbeth is the Thane of Cawdor
· “...murder yet is but fantastical”

Scene IV
· The traitor—Thane of Cawdor has been executed
· Malcolm, Duncan's elder son-The Prince of Cumberland is on line to be the next King
· Macbeth seems him as another threat and something he needs to “overlap” to become King

Scene V
· Lady Macbeth reads a letter from Macbeth
· she is going to “poison” Macbeth with her words in his ears
· “The raven himself is hoarse” symbol and foreshadow 

·Voice of raven foreshadows the evil thing and death
·“unsex me” Lady Macbeth wants to be a man mentally and physically 

· When Macbeth came back, the first thing Lady Macbeth says to him is let's kill the King tonight

Scene VI
· King, Banquo
· arrive at Macbeth’s castle

·Lady Macbeth greets them in a“fake” way

·her plan of murdering the King is obvious

Scene VII
· Macbeth is hesitate to follow Lady Macbeth's plan to kill the King

· the assassination is going to take place in their castle
· People honors Macbeth of his success; he doesn't want to give it away
· Lady Macbeth accuses his cowardice
· Macbeth asks “If we should fail?”
· Their plan is to make Duncan and his guards drunk then make his guards felt guilty of Duncan’s death

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Act II

Scene I
· Fleance is the son of Banquo
· They talk about the witches and questioning their prophecies
· Macbeth“Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still...” 
· He made the decision to kill Duncan

Scene II
· Lady Macbeth drugged the chamberlains of the King
· Lady Macbeth was trying to kill Duncan with dagger, but the way he sleeps look like her father
· Macbeth murdered the King and he refused to go back to put the dagger next to the guards
· Lady Macbeth goes back and put the bloody dagger next to the Chamberlains
· “What hands are here? Ha! They pluck out mine eyes! Will al great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”—water can wash the blood on his hands, but they can't clean the blood in his mind/heart.
· he feels guilty

Scene III
· Lennox gives a description the “unusual night”
· Macduff finds that the King has been murdered and he goes out to tell everyone
· Lennox said that those guards had killed King because their hands and faces were full with blood and the dagger was also in their hands too
· Macbeth says that he killed the guards out of his respect
· Malcolm and Donalbain (Duncan’s son) decided to go separate ways to keep themselves safer

·Malcolm goes to England

·Donalbain goes to Ireland
 Scene IV
· Ross and an Old Man are discussing the strange event
· unusual that King the got killed and his sons fled instead of taking over the crown
· Macduff announces that Macbeth is ready to be officially crowned
· Duncan's body has been carried to Colmekill

· Colmekill is the modern island of Iona
· “God’s benison goes with you, and with those that would make good of bad, and friends of foes!”