Macbeth

The witches predict that Macbeth will be king and how he will fall. These predictions cause Macbeth to dedicate his life to following the witches predictions, doing whatever it takes to make them come true, or to avoid them.

"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.

She means literally what she says in that she would smash the brains out of her own baby. She does this to reinforce to Macbeth that she would keep any promise that she makes to him no matter what the severity of the actions. She is demonstrating her devotion to him, criticising him of not having the same level of love for due to not carrying through with his actions in the killing of Duncan. In telling him of how she would kill her own baby for him she tries to rouse his quilt and implies that she is much braver than he is.

Donalbain

Macbeth gives the country a bad reputation and shows that scotland is filled with a bunch of pu$$ies

He had his suspicions because the fact the Macbeth killed the servants he blamed the murder on.

Well, presumably the kind of things that the characters realize. Be careful what you wish for, Lady Macbeth. Do not meddle in the affairs of witches, for they are subtle and tricky, Macbeth. A government founded on fear will fall, Macbeth. Kings who are bad judges of character are at risk, Duncan.

she gets power hungry and determine to make the prophecies come true so that she will be queen and have a title as well as her husband

Lady Macbeth and Macbeth. That sounds strange, but it is probably true. Next to them, Macduff gets very emotional when he discovers the murder, but seems to get over it quite quickly. But thoughts of Duncan haunt Macbeth who says in Act III Scene II "Duncan is in his grave. After life's fitful fever he sleeps well." And Lady Macbeth cannot shake off thoughts of Duncan either; in her sleepwalking scene she says, "But who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him?"

Macduff is suspicious and knows Macbeth killed the King. Macduff is also forming an army in England with Malcolm. Because Macduff is in England and Macbeth can't reach him, he figures the only way to hurt and destroy him is to kill his family. He sends murderers to the house and they all die. Macduff is still alive and Macbeth is getting tired of living and just wants to die. When Macduff tells everyone about Macbeth's murder, he doesn't care any more. At the battle field Macduff tells Macbeth that if he just gives up now and doesn't fight he'll humiliate him infront of the whole Scotland. He even will do it if he doesn't give up. That makes Macbeth angry again and he drops his shield (either to show that he still, only a little bit, doesn't want to live or to just challenge Macduff further), the two fight and soon Macduff cuts his head off and puts it on a stick and marches around with it.

Seyton tells Macbeth that his wife his just died.

Macbeth was very brave at war, therefore he deserves the title of a noble, brave and worthy man. Macbeth and Banquo both won the war and were great soldiers too. All of these factors link into the reasons why Macbeth is referred to as brave. It is stated by the captain.

Macbeth's first reaction is to dismiss the prophecies out of hand, as would any sane person. However, the grain of truth, and his own ambition, are what lead him to wonder, though not necessarily believe, the prophecies to be true. It can be argued that it is not his reaction to the prophecies which is important, but that of his wife. Lady Macbeth, who does not hesitate to believe the prophecies, is the one to spur her husband into the actions that follow, and lead to his eventual downfall.

The best is yet to come.

Lady Macbeth

Macbeth imagines a 'dagger of the mind' also referred to as a 'false creation' and 'fatal vision'. This floating dagger incites Macbeth, who was previously hesitant, to enter Duncan's chamber and 'bear the knife' against Duncan.

He is simply called: YOUNG SIWARD

Macbeth kills young Siward as he virtually tests the witches' prediction that "no man of woman born" can defeat him.

He chopped it off with a sword, then put it on a spike, or stick, then showed it to the cheering crowed

Malcolm, Duncan's son

Kris

Just read that tonight w/ my kids - Act II, Scene II - Lady M's second line.

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth acted surprised and shocked by the events. Lady Macbeth pretends to faint and Macbeth tries to avoid suspicion by stating the King would have died happily if he had died earlier.

In the beginning of Macbeth, when news is brought about the fight Macbeth has been fighting in, MacDonald is the guy he is fighting. Macbeth kills MacDonald by striking him in the nave and pulling it up to the chops meaning he stabs him at the navel and pulls it up through his hair. OUCH!