Macbeth

Macbeth is King Duncan's cousin as well as a general of the king. Later into the play, he becomes king.

Second Murderer: "I am one, my liege, whom the vile blows and buffets of the world have so incensed that I am reckless what I do to spite the world" First Murderer: "And I another . . ."

Macbeth becomes greedy and overly ambitious.

In the play, Lady Macbeth is more aggressive, insightful, and reactive than Lady Macduff. Lady Macbeth looks at a situation and a person and analyzes their strengths and their weaknesses. Then she comes up with a winning strategy. Readers and viewers see this in Act 1 Scene 5. The Lady sees the possibility of crowns for her and her husband, identifies the kind streak that her husband has and that she lacks, and goes straight for the jugular in calling up the evil spirits to bring her ambitions to success. In contrast, in Act 4 Scene 3, Lady Macduff shows herself more passive, naive and reflective. She gets caught up in her husband's flight, in terms of how that impacts on her personally. She doesn't seem to know her husband wel, because she sees his departure as a personal betrayal. And yet the entire kingdom is falling to pieces around them all! She doesn't think of the consequences to the safety of her or her household. In fact, she doesn't pay attention to the messenger's warning of imminent danger.

Act 1 Scene 3, d'ya think?

Your MOM... and your dad do it and they made that huge mistake to have YOU

Hecate

In Act II Scene 1, Banquo mentions the witches and Macbeth says "I think not of them, yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve, we would spend it in some words upon that business if you would grant the time." In other words he suggests making a date to talk about the witches. Banquo says ok. Then Macbeth says, "If you shall cleave to my consent, when 't is, it shall make honour for you." "Cleave to my consent" means to go along with his plans, so basically he says, "If you go along with my proposals, I can make it worth your while". Banquo gets suspicious; this sounds too much like Macbeth is trying to sell him something which allegedly fell off the back of a truck. He responds cautiously, "So I lose none in seeking to augment it, but still keep my bosom franchised and allegiance clear, I shall be counsell'd". Banquo put conditions on his agreement: the proposal must be an honourable one that will leave Banquo a free agent. This is not what Macbeth wants to hear at all.

Malcolm advises Macduff to go out and fight to help place Malcolm on the throne. All Malcolm sees in Macduff's suffering is an opportunity to gain an ally.

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

she talked him into killing the King by accusing Macbeth of being weak and cowardly

You need to specify which act of the play you are talking about.

Macbeth kills Duncan in his own castle at night time.

No it is Lady Macbeth that smears the guards with blood because Macbeth does not want to go back, so she goes and does it instead.

father

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

King Macduff!

The three witches

'Twas a rough night. Lennox says the wind blew the chimneys down, screams were heard in the air, birds sang all night and there were earthquakes. Ross later says that Duncan's horses ate each other. One hopes that he meant that they bit each other.

Duncan

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

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?

Banquo doesn't commit any crime but is murdered at Macbeth's command. -APEX

There are four scene threes in the play: that gives me a 75% chance of guessing the wrong scene.In Act V Scene 3, he imagines what his old age ought to be like, with "honour, love, obedience, troops of friends" and realizes that he has no chance of this old age. Also, when he is talking to the doctor he wonders whether the doctor could diagnose the disease which affects the country.In Act III Scene 3 we find that Macbeth has sent a third murderer to join the two he talked to earlier. Did he imagine that something would go wrong and sent someone further to check?In Act II Scene 3 he very quickly thinks up the idea of murdering the grooms and then comes up with a plausible excuse when Macduff calls him on it.In Act I Scene 3 he says "why do I yield to that suggestion which doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs . . ?" which means he is clearly imagining the murder of Duncan as a way to make the witches' prediction come true.There is an answer of sorts for all four. Although I would have said that Act II Scenes 1 and 2 contain the best evidence of Macbeth's imagination.

Never. He does say the word "blood" fifteen times, and "bloody" another five. But not "blood on my hands". He does say "There's blood on thy face" to the murderer who kills Banquo. The closest he comes to talking about blood on his hands is "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash the blood clean from my hand."