Macbeth

The third witch

Lady Macbeth does not convince Macbeth to kill Macduffs family. She convinces him to kill the King at the start of the play, but after that she has no input in the decisions he makes. Macbeth chooses to have Macduffs family killed so that he may seize the Macduff castle for his own. The witches also tell him to 'beware Macduff' when he visits them and so he feels threatened by him. Macbeth doesn't actually personally kill Macduffs family either, he hires the same thugs that he hires to assassinate Banquo and Fleance to murder him.

he didnt do anything because he was a terrible king and he should have never became king.

a keen observer
A keen observer

• Brave
• Honourable
• Cautious
• Good
• Fair
• Ambitous

We don't know but it is likely he inherited the title from his father or from climbing the ranks in the military

It is one of the shortest because it has the fewest lines. The reason why a play is long or short is usually because that is how long it took to get to the end.

There can be other factors. Hamlet and King Lear were published in different versions which contain lines not in the other; if the two versions are put together, the result is a longer play. We have only one source text for Macbeth.

Also certain plays had topical material introduced in them which may not have been used in every performance. An example of such filler is the conversation between Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern about the popularity of boys' playing companies (a threat to Shakespeare's business at one time). Sometimes filler is put in to allow for a costume change, such as the conversation between Lorenzo and Jessica at the beginning of Act 5 of The Merchant of Venice. Unfortunately Macbeth is also filled out with a number of scenes containing the character Hecate in a style jarringly dissimilar to the rest of the play, and probably written by someone else (perhaps Thomas Middleton) to provide a little song-and-dance. And the Porter scene, although possibly Shakespeare's best comic relief, is clearly in the play to facilitate a costume change for the Macbeths.

Although its language is powerful and clearly the play is well thought through, Macbeth is a play full of action. Its style contrasts with a play like Antony and Cleopatra, which is bulky and 'talky', lacking action.

Line numbers are not very helpful because they are different from edition to edition of the play. If what you mean is, "Could the play Macbeth end at the moment Macduff cuts off Macbeth's head?", then, the answer is, yes it could. Producers of Shakespearean productions frequently cut lines and passages from the plays to get the running time down to something a modern audience can put up with. The play might well end at that point, and leave out Macduff's report to Malcolm, his line "The time is free", hailing Malcolm king of Scotland, Malcolm's creation of English earls instead of Scottish thanes, and his invitation to come to his coronation.

Artistically, the play may not feel as satisfying if you end with a fade to black when Macduff's sword hacks off Macbeth's head. Macduff needs to underline the fact that Macbeth is dead and his reign of terror is over. At the very least, Macduff must say "Behold where stands the usurper's cursed head. The time is free!"

If you end the play there, you allow the audience to forget about the question, "What happens next?" Having Malcolm hailed as king reminds the audience of the weakness of his character, and that in some ways he may prove a worse king than Macbeth (or, if his character is built up, would reinforce the relief felt that Macbeth is dead). The creation of earls is important in a reading of the play that sees Malcolm as an English-backed Anglophile bent on destroying the indigenous Scottish customs.

But if you marginalize the character of Malcolm throughout the play, it would be consistent to end the play with "the time is free".

At the beginning of the play, Macbeth didn't have any enemies. By the end he had lots, including Malcolm, Donalbain, Fleance and especially Macduff.

Well, if you mean killed, there were many!

King Duncan, Banquo, Lady Macduff, Lady Macduff's son, other members of the Macduff family and Macbeth!

Malcom is Duncan's son. Macbeth kills Duncan (king of Scotland), but not Malcom; Malcom flees to escape suspicion of his involvement in his father's murder. He later returns to Scotland, where, after Macduff kills Macbeth, he is crowned king.

Hope this helps!

Not really. Duncan was a good and saintly man, but was poorly equipped to run a country. In particular he is a poor judge of character: as he himself says "There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face." He is completely wrong about the Thane of Cawdor, and has no inkling of what is going on in Macbeth or Lady Macbeth's minds. He chooses the feckless Malcolm as his successor, just because he is his son.

Henry V better fits the ideal of a king. He spots conspirers against his throne and without difficulty foils them.

Lady Macduff and her son were killed by Macbeth's murderers. He killed them because he was really afraid of everything (after witches' predictions) and wanted to harm Macduff.

be careful what you ask for.

Brave Macbeth

The quote is said by one of the weird sisters in the play Macbeth as they brew up evil spirits and invite Hecate to attend, in anticipation of Macbeth's desperate arrival to hear his fate from them. Macbeth finds the weird sisters in a cave and he immediately sees that they are doing something unearthly and greets them with "How now you black and secret midnight hags?". Means > I greet you, what are you doing evil women?

One of the weird sisters replies to him, " ...a deed without a name".

This means that they are meddling with unearthly spirits and evil of the most unearthly kind. A deed (act) which is SO evil that it has no words or earthly definition to describe it. It is beyond evil, beyond earthly good and evil. It is evil and madness beyond any human comprehension and even beyond words or description. A deed without a name.

Macbeth is saying that he has done one part of the job but it is still not safe and that the snake can still bite, meaning that it can still be a hindrance, so he describes the situation as incomplete.

Banquo is his best friend. Aside from that, Banquo is well loved by many, and if he were to be killed by Macbeth, it would look bad on him. By having the murderers do it, he can mourn Banquo's death and be free of suspicion.

Macbeth speaks of playing "the Roman fool" because he is demonstrating his resolve not to take his own life .

The banquet was a turning point for Macbeth because when hismurderer's killed his best friend ,Banquo. Macbeth saw Banquo's ghost at his coronation and was shocked.

After the shocking bit, Macbeth felt ill and was sent to bed.Lady Macbeth was relived to see her evil plan work and she had purposely sent Macbeth to bed and out of sight.

He asks where Macbeth was and what he was doing.

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.

she is showing want she had done. like it is playing over again just for her and its haunts her.

Lady Macbeth rang the bell three times to give Macbeth a signal that Duncan's servant are asleep and the time is right for Macbeth to enter Duncan's chamber