Macbeth

Macduff says this

If you are referring to Shakespeare's classic Macbeth, it's because Macduff hates Macbeth. Remember, Macbeth turns evil because of hunger for power. Macbeth killed Macduff's wife and children because Macduff knew Macbeth killed Duncan. He wanted to kill Macduff, but Macduff was gone. Macbeth killed Macduff's family because he felt they were in his way and stopping him from achieving his goals.

The three assassins that were hired by Macbeth kill Banquo as he is walking with his son to the palace for a dinner that Macbeth invited him to.

the witches

Shakespeare's dialogue between Ross and Lady Macduff makes readers begin to like the mother and son. Once you find them appealing and likable, he then kills them off.

They did a circle dance and vanished.

It turns out, after declaring Leo Gibbs, the comedian, was the murderer, Alex Dennison shoots him. In the ensuing blackout and confusion, Frank Heller uses a flashlight to see where everyone is. He sees David and Karen standing calmly. The light finds Alex, who calls for lights. Alex helps Leo up and walks towards Frank. He asks where Frank got the flashlight. Frank says he was looking for matches in the desk. But, Alex already said Monica Wells didn't smoke. He reveals that Frank knew he'd find the flashlight, because he saw it the night he killed Monica. Alex goes on to reveal that everything Frank saw when he entered was scripted (although he admits a bit was improvised), and that all the other motives were made up. The cast chimes in their part in the whole thing, and how Alex figured out it was Frank. Frank's cab had records of leaving the theater and going to Monica's apartment. Slowly, as everything is unraveled, Frank confesses what happened that night. Monica died in an argument between them, and when he threw her, her head slammed against her desk. Frank faked the suicide, and Alex hired him to participate in his game, telling him it was Leo who was the killer. It turns out, Lieutenant McElroy was up in the light booth and arrests Frank. The ending contains much more info, but that's the basics.

Macbeth decides to kill Banquo out of fear. he is afrait of Banquo out of two reasons, the first being that Banquo had defied him in act two by not agreeing to help him. the second reason is that Banquo is questioning how Macbeth got so many things go his way after the witches prophosy The third reason Macbeth is afraid is that the witches prophesise that Banquo's son will sit on the crown, if his son is sitting on the crown Macbeth will obviusly be dead

Most of us feel a little sorry for her. Yes, she talked Macbeth into doing the murder, but she soon found out that she had a tiger by the tail and she was not in any way in control of the situation. Further, the queenship which she had coveted at the beginning of the play has turned to ashes in her mouth. And guilt has eaten her alive just as it is eating Macbeth alive.

Lady Macbeth planned to blame the murder on the grooms of Duncan's chamber. This frame-up was successful, at least at first.

"Fair is foul and foul is fair. Hover through the fog and filthy air"

Because they do things in threes. They had three prophecies for Macbeth and now they have three for Banquo.

"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes" Why is Macbeth wicked? He has not only killed his king, but he has also arranged for the murder of his friend for no clear reason. That's pretty wicked.

Read the play and outline it. Take those ideas and make 10 points out of them.

I see that in your production you have cast Macbeth with a woman. That's interesting. (otherwise you must say "he says" not "she says")

The quotation you are referring to is:

If thou speak'st false,

Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive,

Till famine cling thee: if thy speech be sooth,

I care not if thou dost for me as much.

I pull in resolution, and begin

To doubt the equivocation of the fiend

That lies like truth: 'Fear not, till Birnam wood

Do come to Dunsinane:' and now a wood

Comes toward Dunsinane.

He's speaking to a messenger who has just told him that Birnam wood is coming to Dunsinane, an event about which he said, earlier in the play, "That can never be!" As the passage clearly shows, he says that if the messenger is telling the truth, he cannot rely on the prophecy "fear not, till Birnam wood do come to Dunsinane", because it is "equivocation"--it seems to say one thing and means another. And who is the "fiend that lies like truth"? You'll need three guesses because there were three of them around that cauldron.

They don't. They are riding from the battlefield where they have dealt with the traitor Macdonweald to their camp at Forres (that's actually the name of a place in Scotland 25 miles east of Inverness, not a misspelling of forest) where the king awaits them. They are accosted by three witches of whom Macbeth asks, "why upon this blasted heath you stop our way with such prophetic greeting." A heath is defined as an area of open uncultivated land, the very opposite of a forest.

She is sleepwalking, and unfortunately sleeptalking as well.

According to the Lord in scene 6, "The son of Duncan . . . lives in the English court. . . . Thither Macduff is gone."

Macbeth is stating that Banquo is dead. It highlights Macbeth's fear and consciousness.

modern translation: There is no marrow in your bones; your blood is cold.

Because they were mad at him, they wanted to kill him and make Malcolm king instead.

He has Macbeth himself explain it in 1,7:

"First as I am his kinsman and his subject, both strong against the deed, then as his host who should against his murderer shut the door, not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been so clear in his great office, that his virtues will plead like angels trumpet-tongued against the deep damnation of his taking-off."

1. Macbeth is Duncan's cousin.

2. This is regicide.

3. A host is bound to protect his guest. It's horrific to kill someone who is your guest.

4. Duncan is a meek and gentle (some would say dimwitted) person

5. Duncan is an honest king

This should be enough, but many directors go further to make the murder seem monstrous. In many productions, Duncan is portrayed as fifty or sixty years older than his sons and way older than his cousin Macbeth. Not only is he a feeble and elderly man, but he is saintly. However, Shakespeare did not actually write Duncan as an elderly king, although he is obviously old enough to have young adults for sons.

Both Lennox and the lord he is speaking with suspect Macbeth of killing Duncan and Banquo

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Lady Macbeth is telling Macbeth to grow up and just kill the King. But Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth that she cant kill him since he looks like her father, this shows the reader that Lady Macbeth isn't as crazy as we think she is.