Macbeth

He has decided to kill the king- Apex

Banquo's ghost. But let's be fair; Macbeth told him to "fail not our feast", and Banquo didn't, even though he was dead.

No one. His audience was located on three levels in the theater. The bottom floor was young men standing. They were a rowdy group that shouted at the actors, threw food, and didn't listen much to the play. The first floor were people sitting and watching the play. They paid closer attention to it and the upper floor was filled with prostitution working the single men from the bottom floor. There were also women selling Oranges on the bottom floor. The audiences of the time loved all the witches and ghosts in his story and he always used the elements of nature in his plays. The strange happenings are "what made the play." After all the "play is the thing."

"When shall we three meet again

In thunder, lightning, and in rain?

When the hurly-burly's done

When the battle's lost and won."

Clearly two events that are going on are a thunderstorm and a battle.

No logical reason, but then fear is not a logical thing. Although Macbeth says, "My fears in Banquo stick deep," he is not totally clear about why he is afraid of him.

Most likely, he is afraid that Banquo knows too much about him, knows what the witches said to him and how troubled he was by it, and as a result may suspect Macbeth of murdering Duncan.

He is also annoyed by the prophecy of the "fruitless crown" and the prophecy that Banquo will be the father to kings. To prevent this, Macbeth would have to kill not only Fleance but also Banquo, to prevent Banquo from fathering more children. This prophecy does not threaten Macbeth, yet he feels threatened by it. All of this makes the ball of anxiety which he feels because of the murder focus irrationally on Banquo.

Where is Macbeth going when he sees the bloody dagger?

"I am settled and bend up each corporeal agent to this terrible feat." Act 1 Scene 7

Of course, they are carrying the branches ostensibly for camouflage, but in this way they fulfill the prophecy about Birnam Wood coming to Dunsinane. It also reflects the appearance of the third apparition, a crowned child carrying a tree.

They made Hecate angry by not letting her participate in their plans. -Macbeth.

Actually, most of the events in Act 4 are foreshadowed earlier. Macbeth's visit to the witches is foreshadowed by their initial appearance in Act 1 as well as Macbeth's stated intentions in Act III. The murder of Macduff's children is foreshadowed by a whole stream of images of murdered children, including Lady Macbeth's blood-curdling statement that she would have plucked her nipple from her child's gums and dashed its brains out, and even the image of a bloody child in Act IV Scene 1. It is only when we get to Scene 3 that we get some foreshadowing of what is to come in Act 5, especially in Macduff's demand, "front to front bring me this fiend of Scotland and myself" which is of course what happens.

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The witches

They made Hecate angry by not letting her participate in their plans. -Macbeth.

In about 1950, a scholar by the name of Henry N. Paul published a book in which he claimed that Macbeth had been written explicitly to please King James, and was premiered at court. Although his ideas were totally speculative and not backed by any evidence, people jumped on the bandwagon, as they tend to do when someone advances a new and interesting theory. After sixty years, everyone has forgotten that this idea comes from the imagination of one man. However, the facts are these: Shakespeare did not materially change the story he got from Holinshed, and in particular did not add witches or the idea that Banquo was the ancestor of the Stuarts to the story; there is no evidence that any monarch ever directed any playwright which story to dramatize, despite rumours about Queen Elizabeth and The Merry Wives of Windsor; there is no evidence that Macbeth was ever played at court, even though we have several records of groups of plays performed; there is no evidence of what King James thought of the play, although we know that it was less popular with the public than other plays of Shakespeare. So there is no real reason to suppose that King James had anything to do with the creation of this play at all, any more than he had with any other play. Very possibly, Shakespeare may have thought that the public would be interested in Scottish history as opposed to English history after the failure of the Gunpowder Plot, but there is no evidence of that either. It's pure speculation.

Lady Macbeth has at some time had a baby. Actually the historical Lady Macbeth did have a son who became king after his stepfather Macbeth died.

Ross is a messenger. Every time there is a message to be delivered, Ross is delivering it. He should be portrayed as a courier. We first meet him when he is bringing news to Duncan of the battle in Fife and Cawdor's treachery, then he brings news to Macbeth that he is now Thane of Cawdor, then he brings messages to Lady Macduff, and finally brings news to Macduff that his family has been slaughtered.

There's a party going on at the palace. People would notice a murder.

I am having trouble understanding what "date power" means. Possibly you tried to type "fate, power" instead. Anyway, Act I Scene 7, which is the key to understanding this play, shows that power is not something that Macbeth values particularly highly. He sneers at ambition, calling it "vaulting". However, he does put a high value on fearlessness, because his wife is able to motivate him by calling him a coward. Yet ironically, after he commits the murder he is driven by fear; by playing on his self-image as fearless, Lady M has made a coward of him. As for fate, he is wishy-washy. At one point, why if fate would have him king fate would crown him, yet at another he tries to thwart the prophecy that Banquo's issue will be kings.

King Edward is portrayed as a healer, whereas Macbeth is portrayed as delivering death. Edward has "a heavenly gift of prophecy" which he gets from "holy prayers", whereas Macbeth has no gift of prophecy, and the prophecies he gets from the witches are deceptions.

the porter

Ambition and cruelty

Macbeth has both good and bad qualities, but ambition and his wife's arguments are influencing him.

Macduff wins.

At various times in the play various lords show their mistrust and suspicion for Macbeth. Macduff shows it when he refuses to attend Macbeth's coronation at the end of Act II. Banquo starts Act three by saying "I fear thou play'dst most foully for't". In Act III Scene 6 Lennox expresses his suspicions of Macbeth. Ross arrives in England in Act IV Scene 3 to deliver a message as usual, but it is clear that he will not return to Scotland.

Your teacher probably wants to hear ambition, and that is correct. It is also natural; anyone would have their ambition encouraged by being told that they are going to be king, especially if there is a reasonable possibility it could happen. Being told that you will someday become President or Prime Minister might encourage anyone to develop political ambitions.