Macbeth

She tells him to buck up and act like a man. But where telling him to act like a man used to work just fine to get him to behave as she wishes, she finds to her horror that it doesn't work any more.

The witches address Macbeth first, and so Banquo says "But what about meeee? Tell meeee a prophecy." And so they do, but it is a prophecy which will not take place in Banquo's lifetime. He will not be around to see any of his descendants crowned. So he doesn't care much about it. Macbeth's prediction, on the other hand, will have to come true in his lifetime or not at all. Macbeth is naturally more caught up in the possibility the prophecy raises.

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We are not told how Lady Macbeth died. All we hear is "The queen, my lord is dead." It is up to the director to consider whether he wants to dramatize the death in some way or just leave it offstage. The director could choose to show Lady Macbeth poisoning herself, or sleepwalking off a parapet, or dying by some other means. It is unlikely that she was poisoned by someone else. Nobody would want to poison her except herself.

Duncan's grooms, who he and Lady Macbeth have framed for the murder of Duncan. He claims to have been infuriated at their apparent guilt, when in fact he just wanted to shut them up.

Macbeth persuades the murderers to kill Banquo and his son

Hecate says: "How did you dare To trade and traffic with Macbeth In riddles and affairs of death; " "Traffic" here is a verb meaning "to buy and sell, do business with". You know, like drug trafficking.

The superstition says that you are not to say the word "Macbeth" when you are in a theatre, unless you are rehearsing or performing the play. What you are supposed to call it is "The Scottish Play". That is, assuming you believe in that sort of thing.

Because the witches said that Banquo's descendants and not Macbeth's would be kings. So even though Macbeth is king during his lifetime, it is not a lasting legacy. "If't be so, for Banquo's issue have I filed my mind; for them the gracious Duncan have I murder'd."

When Macbeth doesn't kill Duncan, lady Macbeth decides to insult and question his manhood. Her beliefs are that manhood can only be defined through murder. And in a way Lady Macbeth 'dares' Macbeth to kill Duncan. Macbeth encouraged by his wife's determination and the chance to prove his manhood agrees to continue with the murder.

Duncan appoints him to that title, after it was stripped from the previous Thane. The former Thane of Cawdor was stripped of all titles and executed after joining a Norwegian invading force which was defeated at Fife. Macbeth at the time was at Forres, nowhere near Fife.

Act I, Scene 4. Macbeth's line "Stars, hide your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires." is sort of quoted in the song. The song lyric goes, "Stars, hide your fires, these here are my desires".

The quotation in which this contraction appears is from Act II Scene 3. Macbeth says, "who could refrain,/ That had a heart to love, and in that heart/ Courage to make's love known?" In this particular quotation, the contraction is of "make his".

what does Fleance's escape suggest about Macbeth's luck

Of course I have no idea what your feelings on the issue might have been. If you are capable of having feelings, you should try to figure out what they were (assuming that you have actually watched or read the play and understood it). But it is worth noting that in this play and in Richard III, which has almost the same plot, the overthrow of an anointed king is justified by his having committed horrible atrocities, or rather the same horrible atrocity: the murder of a child or children. This is the ultimate atrocity and Shakespeare pulls it out in both plays in order to justify the action of deposing a king or ruler by force, which in all other plays is suggested to be the root of political instability and evil.

He could have protected his family just as well, and in fact even better, by packing them up and taking them to England with him.

Why do you think Macbeth is startled by the witches prediction's in act 1 of Macbeth by Shakespeare

who els knows of the witches prophecies

Ross doesn't say that he doesn't believe that the guards are guilty, although he doesn't understand it. Ross is a rather credulous fellow as compared to Macduff or Lennox (who is extremely cynical about the idea that the guards were guilty in Act III Scene 5). When Macduff tells him that the guards are known to have committed the murder in Act II Scene 4, Ross does not doubt it, but asks, "What good could they pretend?", which basically means "Why did they do it?" Macduff tells Ross it was Malcolm and Donalbain who bought them off, and Ross accepts that as well.

Far too vague to answer.

Malcolm pretends to be a greedy, lustful, and evil man.

In Act II Scene 3 we hear this conversation:

Lennox: The night has been unruly: where we lay,

Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,

Lamentings heard i' the air; strange screams of death,

And prophesying with accents terrible

Of dire combustion and confused events

New hatch'd to the woeful time: the obscure bird

Clamour'd the livelong night: some say, the earth

Was feverous and did shake.

Macbeth: "Twas a rough night.

In scene 4 the stories get wilder.

Ross: Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame,

That darkness does the face of earth entomb,

When living light should kiss it?

Old Man: 'Tis unnatural,

Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last,

A falcon, towering in her pride of place,

Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.

Ross: And Duncan's horses--a thing most strange and certain--

Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race,

Turn'd wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out,

Contending 'gainst obedience, as they would make

War with mankind.

Old Man: "Tis said they eat each other.

So there you have it: Winds so strong they blow chimneys down, making weird screaming noises, earthquakes, darkness during the daytime, birds singing at night who don't usually, owls killing hawks, and horses breaking out of their stalls. And eating each other, 'tis said.

they do not include her in the plan to mess with macbeth, which makes her angry

They are not given in the script.

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