Macbeth

Life is pointless.

The Prophecy says Macbeth will be king.

Duncan is king.

Macbeth cannot be king while Duncan is king.

Duncan will not be king when he is dead.

Therefore, make Duncan dead.

he must eat his dinner

Lady MacDuff and her children are killed in Act 4 of "Macbeth". Macbeth hires assassins to kill the MacDuff family because he fears MacDuff is plotting against him..

Macbeth wants to do away with Banquo and his son. The Murderers succeed with Banquo, but not the son, ans Banquo's bloody ghost appears to Macbeth during the Lords' Banquet.

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that the owl may look little but clearly is stronger

From our perspective, of course it does, since we know that Macbeth has in fact crossed the line and committed a heinous crime.

Cumberland, which is not really a separate country, but rather a district in England. Presumably we are to assume that at the time these events take place, it is part of Scotland. Otherwise it is kind of a cheap appointment.

"Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe", in other words they fought on harder. Act 1, scene 2

It's a disaster. Lady Macbeth has to send the guests home without eating because Macbeth acts so crazy.

Lady macbeth wants macbeth to kill king duncan because she wants to be queen. King duncan has a lot of trust with macbeth so no one will suspect it. And she also persuades him by saying he can be king, and have all this power.

Those are three lines from Act 1 Scene 3. The line numbers in Shakespeare's plays are put in afterwards by editors which means that different editions have different line numbers. Check your own edition to see what it says there (if anything).

There are only three apparitions in Macbeth.

1. A helmeted head. He is just a head with armor on, he tells Macbeth that he is supposed to "beware Macduff."

2. A bloody child. This is meant to symbolize Macduff as a just-born infant. This apparition tells Macbeth that he only needs to fear those who are not of woman born. Meaning those who are not born naturally from a woman.

3. A crowned child with a tree branch. Again this is meant to symbolize Macduff. This apparition tells Macbeth that he doesn't need to worry until the forest at the bottom of the hill that his castle is on begins to move up the hill.

his mind will never full with falter and fear

Hecate beleives that macbeth did it for a subtstational number of people. The unconditional love that Macbeth gave his family as a child showed that their status in his life were much greater than it had first appeared

He says this is his way of seeing whether Macduff is a spy for Macbeth. Anyone genuinely wanting to help Malcolm to overthrow Macbeth because he believes Malcolm is better would refuse to follow Malcolm if he was actually worse than Macbeth.

Yes, but only after Duncan's murder. As Macbeth thought he heard, "Macbeth shall sleep no more," because he murdered sleep. He murdered Duncan in his sleep and his guilt murders his sleep. Lady Macbeth is also effected by all of this. Later in the play, she sleep walks and tries to wash the blood off of her hands, which symbolizes her unending guilt. She is reliving the nights that Duncan and Banquo were murdered and she is so paranoid that she must sleep with a candle so that she is not murdered in her sleep like Duncan. She is so guilty that she eventually commits suicide.

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

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.

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

Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, King of Scotland.

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