Macbeth

There is no narrator in Macbeth. It is a play told by the numerous characters.

a bloody knife with the handle facing him

He had blood on his face

The wood does not move. Macbeth's enemies cut down small trees and bushes from Birnam Wood, hide behind the trees and bushes and move slowly forward. Towards Dunsinane.

Act 1 Scene 2 Line 7-9

Limited in their power. She can make his life miserable but she cannot kill him. It also shows how petty they are. This poor man is going to suffer terribly because his wife wouldn't give the witch some chestnuts, and was pretty rude about it.

Macbeth's courage in battle is a matter for great admiration and celebration among the other characters in the play. The audience is naturally drawn to join in this admiration. Our admiration for Macbeth at the beginning of the play makes his moral collapse that much more remarkable.

The porter of the Macbeth household. He's still severely drunk at that time, so he most likely is just rambling on with a loose tongue, as most drunkards do.

he wishes that it could wake Duncan from death

Tragic flaw is not "used" in a play, it is imposed on a play in an effort to understand it better. Some people think it works, and others don't. But in any event, it was not a concept in Shakespeare's mind when he wrote Macbeth.

Malcolm Canmore, later king of Scotland, was the son of King Duncan. Also Donald Ban was his son, and he also became king later on. Both of these appear in Shakespeare's play.

Lady Macbeth says this just after Macbeth has murdered Duncan and there is a knock on their door. She says it Act 2 Scene 2 Line 70 in theoxford school version of the play.

Not long after telling Macbeth he'll become Thane of Cawdor, he is given the title.

In the second set of prophecies, the witches seem to know Macbeth's castle will be stormed and how it will be taken over.

Now, to put it in perspective, this is from the 'is this a dagger' speech. So, Macbeth is hallucinating a bloody dagger. He can't touch it, so he realizes it's not real and, in the line above, says it's the thought of killing Duncan, (which is the "bloody business") that is making him see things.

Macbeth

"O horror! horror! horror! Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee!"

She influences Macbeth to kill Duncan. Also makes Macbeth a stronger person. Later it is revealed that her tough personality is an act and that her conscience is killing her too.

i think Macbeth wanted to be king. he couldn't though because king Duncan was. So Macbeth killed him. Then Banqou was suppose to be next to be kind, i believe. So he hired the revengers or avengers to murder him. Next was fleance. i don't know what happened to him.

a captain

In Macbeth's soliloquy in act 2 scene 1, Macbeth imagines that a dagger is leading him to the place where he is to kill King Duncan. This is an example of the power of Macbeth's imagination and how easily it can take over.

That he was a good King

Macbeth does the things he does(like kill Duncan) because Macbeth is manipulated and coaxed by Lady Macbeth to do them. On his own, he would not have done so even though he was ambitious.

Lady Macbeth, does the manipulating and all the cruel lines that she says are of her own accord. Nobody forces her, she choses to become evil while Macbeth is forced to become evil.

It depends which witches' scenes you are talking about. The key and most important scene is Act I Scene III, which is a scene taken from Holinshed's Chronicles, Shakespeare's source for the story. The purpose of this scene is to provide the motive power by which the story will run. It is the inciting incident of the plot. Act I Scene I is a scene designed to get the audience's attention so they will stop talking to their neighbours, pinching the orange-sellers and so on, and pay some attention to what was going on on stage. The other witches' scenes, and I include the famous Act IV Scene 1 in this, are superfluous. Their purpose is for the most part to be amusing, by portraying the witches as cutesy fairies who dance about to music and sing songs, while speaking in iambic tetrameter instead of blank verse. Act IV Scene 1 also is a pretext for including the dumb show line of kings which would help get the play past the censors, being flattering to King James.

Butchers kill animals in quantity so that their meat can be eaten by people. They don't feel any empathy for the animals while doing this (their job would drive them crazy otherwise). By likening Macbeth to a butcher, Malcolm says both that he killed a lot of people and that he didn't feel anything about it. This is not completely true, of course, as anyone who has been watching the play knows, but it helps legitimize Malcolm's claim to the throne.

Oh, and why does Malcolm call Macbeth "dead"? Because shortly before he says this Macduff chopped off Macbeth's head and was showing it around.