Macbeth

The Roman god of water and of the sea.

father

Get the guards drunk, stab the king, frame the guards.

Both mention birds. Lady MacDuff references the wren, and MacDuff references chickens.

a soldier in some wore sees 3 witches that tell him he will be king so his evil wife tells him to kill the king

Killing Duncan has turned Macbeth into a paranoid. His "fears in Banquo stick deep"; he is afraid that he suspects him, and resents the prediction the witches made about him, that his children would be king. He hires two murderers to take Banquo and his son Fleance out, and sends a third to check up on the first two. The murderers jump Fleance and Banquo but only get Banquo.

Normally, people would not blame the witches. They just said things and Macbeth reacted by doing things. The witches can only be held to blame if you think that Macbeth had no choice in his actions. But if he had no choice, how come the witches do have a choice?

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.

Macbeth "... I bear a charmed life, which must not yield/ To one of woman born."

Macbeth says that the witches foretold that he would not die at the hand of anyone who was women born.

There were lots of things that they didn't tell him, such as, that actually murdering Duncan would drive him and his wife insane, that Macduff had been born by Caesarian section and that for the purposes of their prophecy, that did not make him "born of woman", that any part of Birnam wood coming to Dunsinane would fulfill their prophecy, and that what had been predicted would happen no matter what he did.

he throught he'd be the sickest lad if he sliced the king ear to ear.

'How now' basically means 'Hello' or 'well met'.

there are 3

He tries to find Odysseus, aka "Nohbody", and get ahold of him and kill him.

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.

He imagines that he is the gatekeeper in hell (while being excessively drunk).

Look at the beginning of act 2 scene 3.

Macbeth was elated

The third witch

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.

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

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!