Macbeth

In Act 2 Scene 1, Macbeth is onstage and Lady Macbeth is not. I think Macbeth in Act 1 Scene 5 is heading back to his castle called "Inverness" to talk to his wife (Lady Macbeth) about what happened with the witches and to come back from the war that just happened. Possibly you were thinking of Act 2 Scene 2 where she is talking and he is stabbing Duncan.

If he did, it is not shown in the play. As far as we know, he only had the one chance encounter with them.

Inverness, when he arrives at Macbeth's castle in 1,6. He says, "This castle hath a pleasant seat. The air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself to our senses."

Banquo and Macbeth. And the other witches, of course.

Duncan gives him the title. Ross delivers the news to Macbeth.

Macbeth's castle

Macbeth plans to murder his friend, Banquo, and Fleance, Banquo's son, after hearing the witches' prophecies. He hires two murders to commit the act and then another to make sure it was successful. His plan was foiled because only Banquo was killed, and Fleance managed to escape. Hope this helped!

Macbeth says this line when waiting to get the signal to murder King Duncan, in Act 2, Scene 1. He sees a dagger floating in the air in front of him but he cannot grasp it. It is actually three sentences: "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."

macduff

Macbeth and lady Macbeth try to avoid suspicion by getting into their pajamas after committing the murder so people will think they were asleep all the time.

Because he's got his ideas where killing the king to become king himself is bad, since Duncan has been a friend and if anyone finds out they'll do the same to Macbeth, but also Lady Macbeth is manipulating Macbeth to do the wrong thing because she's mad with greed and wants the power also.

Macbeth is in the middle with the witches and with Lady Macbeth and can't make his own decisions because they're being made or manipulated for him.

A number of the histories we have of the time are either unclear or are later emendations. The main tactical plan was to get naked, paint yourself blue, and run screaming at the enemy waving the biggest sword you could handle.

Holinshed's Chronicles describe the strategy used to defeat the Norwegian invasion of Fife alluded to in the Shakespeare play. According to Holinshed, the Norwegians defeated King Duncan and his son Malcolm in the field and so they retreated into a castle. The besieging Norwegians were ill-provided with food, but Duncan said that the besieged army would happily provide food for the Norwegian army. The infinitely stupid Norwegian king agreed, and so they all fell to and ate a feast of poisoned food which rendered them incapacitated. Macbeth rode in from the north and mopped up the survivors.

"Away, and mock the time with fairest show:

False face must hide what the false heart doth know."

"Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell

That summons thee to heaven or to hell."

"But shift away: there's warrant in that theft

Which steals itself, when there's no mercy left."

"God's benison go with you; and with those

That would make good of bad, and friends of foes!"

Basically, you go to the end of a scene and look at the last two lines. Odds are, they rhyme, to give finality to the scene. Here's a couple from the middle of a scene:

"Nought's had, all's spent,

Where our desire is got without content"

The witches' prophecies all come true. Indeed Macbeth should beware Macduff because Macduff is the one who kills him, the one who is not of woman born. The forest of Birnam Wood (or part of it anyway) does travel to Dunsinane before the final battle.

Macbeth was both a man and a monster because he changes between the story and is loyal at the beginning but gets more violent at the end so we can safely say that Macbeth is a man AND a monster

They tell him the only person who can kill him is a man not born of a woman, which Macbeth thought was impossible. However, Macduff wasn't. His mother had a c-section, which doesn't count.

Hecate

In the Shakespearean play, Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057] held a banquet at Forres Palace after his coronation at Scone. But when it came time for everyone present to be seated, Macbeth wouldn't take his seat. The reason was the pre-empting of the seat by the ghost of Banquo. Banquo was heading back to the Palace for the banquet when he was accosted by three murderers. He made it no further than the nearby park, because his throat was slit. But his ghost made it to the banquet, on time and to unsettle Macbeth, who had hired the killers.

After the banquet where Banquo's ghost appears, he tells Lady Macbeth that he "will send" so he hasn't done it yet. The next time we see him, he is visiting the witches, and then Lennox brings word that Macduff is fled to England. Macbeth says "Time, thou anticipat'st my dread exploits." What this means is that Macduff got away before Macbeth could get to him. It would seem that Macbeth never does send for Macduff.

Macbeth was compared to the devil

An armed head represents Macduff, who is a soldier.

The bloody child also represents Macduff, who was delivered by Cesarian Section, but that is not apparent at this time.

The crowned child holding a branch represents Malcolm, who will be king and who is therefore crowned. He is shown as a child because he owes his kingship, not to his own merit, but to the fact that he is a king's child. He is shown holding a branch as a hint as to how Birnam Wood is going to get to Dunsinane, but again, this is not apparent to Macbeth at this time.

It's easier to ambush someone in the dark.

England.

Banquo says that to Macbeth in Act 2, Scene 1, Line 20.

In Act 3 Scene 1 Macbeth says:

"We hear our bloody cousins are bestow'd

In England and in Ireland, not confessing

Their cruel parricide, filling their hearers

With strange invention"

Presumably, Duncan's sons are suggesting that Macbeth killed Duncan, not them.