Macbeth

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

The answer is D. In a drama, the lines are spoken aloud, and the meter follows the natural voice pattern.

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

Actually, most of the events in Act 4 are foreshadowed earlier. Macbeth's visit to the witches is foreshadowed by their initial appearance in Act 1 as well as Macbeth's stated intentions in Act III. The murder of Macduff's children is foreshadowed by a whole stream of images of murdered children, including Lady Macbeth's blood-curdling statement that she would have plucked her nipple from her child's gums and dashed its brains out, and even the image of a bloody child in Act IV Scene 1. It is only when we get to Scene 3 that we get some foreshadowing of what is to come in Act 5, especially in Macduff's demand, "front to front bring me this fiend of Scotland and myself" which is of course what happens.

Lady Macbeth has at some time had a baby. Actually the historical Lady Macbeth did have a son who became king after his stepfather Macbeth died.

In about 1950, a scholar by the name of Henry N. Paul published a book in which he claimed that Macbeth had been written explicitly to please King James, and was premiered at court. Although his ideas were totally speculative and not backed by any evidence, people jumped on the bandwagon, as they tend to do when someone advances a new and interesting theory. After sixty years, everyone has forgotten that this idea comes from the imagination of one man. However, the facts are these: Shakespeare did not materially change the story he got from Holinshed, and in particular did not add witches or the idea that Banquo was the ancestor of the Stuarts to the story; there is no evidence that any monarch ever directed any playwright which story to dramatize, despite rumours about Queen Elizabeth and The Merry Wives of Windsor; there is no evidence that Macbeth was ever played at court, even though we have several records of groups of plays performed; there is no evidence of what King James thought of the play, although we know that it was less popular with the public than other plays of Shakespeare. So there is no real reason to suppose that King James had anything to do with the creation of this play at all, any more than he had with any other play. Very possibly, Shakespeare may have thought that the public would be interested in Scottish history as opposed to English history after the failure of the Gunpowder Plot, but there is no evidence of that either. It's pure speculation.

Ross is a messenger. Every time there is a message to be delivered, Ross is delivering it. He should be portrayed as a courier. We first meet him when he is bringing news to Duncan of the battle in Fife and Cawdor's treachery, then he brings news to Macbeth that he is now Thane of Cawdor, then he brings messages to Lady Macduff, and finally brings news to Macduff that his family has been slaughtered.

It is Macbeth kills the current king and is rewarded by being named king himself. Just took test.

Unbounded sexual lust, unbounded greed, and all other faults. This disguises Malcolm's true faults: he is tedious, cowardly, and doesn't like Scotland much.

It means that you cannot tell the difference between a line in the play and a footnote. "All hail, Macbeth! that shalt be king hereafter" is a line from Act I Scene 3, said by the Third Witch. She is just greeting him, but in greeting him she calls him a future king. The part that says "A thane in early England . . ." is a comment by some indifferent scholar. I say indifferent because whoever added the footnote appears to be unaware that Scotland and England were two different countries and that the play takes place in Scotland.

This is a great question because it goes straight to the dynamic between the Macbeths. Macbeth does not have a "fatal flaw", but he does have weaknesses, the largest of which is his self-image as masculine. Lady Macbeth can get Macbeth to do just about anything by saying "If thou wert a man, then thou durst do it." It's like someone who cannot resist a dare, or the taunt that he is "chicken".

Macduff and Lennox. They were supposed to arrive early in the morning and wake up the king. Unfortunately everyone in the castle had partied to late at night and they are all sleeping in, so Macduff and Lennox have to bang on the door.

Duncan appoints him to that title, after it was stripped from the previous Thane. The former Thane of Cawdor was stripped of all titles and executed after joining a Norwegian invading force which was defeated at Fife. Macbeth at the time was at Forres, nowhere near Fife.

Act I, Scene 4. Macbeth's line "Stars, hide your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires." is sort of quoted in the song. The song lyric goes, "Stars, hide your fires, these here are my desires".

The quotation in which this contraction appears is from Act II Scene 3. Macbeth says, "who could refrain,/ That had a heart to love, and in that heart/ Courage to make's love known?" In this particular quotation, the contraction is of "make his".

Ambition and cruelty

Successful were the murderers in Macbeth partly;
Banquo dead because of them becomes,
But still alive is Fleance afterwards.Successful were in Act IV the murderers also,
Who slaughter they made of the family of Macduff
Entirely without exception.

We are not told how Lady Macbeth died. All we hear is "The queen, my lord is dead." It is up to the director to consider whether he wants to dramatize the death in some way or just leave it offstage. The director could choose to show Lady Macbeth poisoning herself, or sleepwalking off a parapet, or dying by some other means. It is unlikely that she was poisoned by someone else. Nobody would want to poison her except herself.

Duncan's grooms, who he and Lady Macbeth have framed for the murder of Duncan. He claims to have been infuriated at their apparent guilt, when in fact he just wanted to shut them up.

Macbeth persuades the murderers to kill Banquo and his son

The superstition says that you are not to say the word "Macbeth" when you are in a theatre, unless you are rehearsing or performing the play. What you are supposed to call it is "The Scottish Play". That is, assuming you believe in that sort of thing.

Because the witches said that Banquo's descendants and not Macbeth's would be kings. So even though Macbeth is king during his lifetime, it is not a lasting legacy. "If't be so, for Banquo's issue have I filed my mind; for them the gracious Duncan have I murder'd."

The daggers. He was supposed to leave them in Duncan's bedchamber to incriminate to grooms but he forgot. Lady Macbeth has to take them back, because Macbeth does not want to look at the murder scene again.

Macduff wins.