1.1 There is a battle and three witches plan to meet Macbeth. in the Scottish camp, King Duncan asked for a report o how the battle is going.
1.2 A wounded soldier tells how Macbeth bravely killed the rebels Macdonwald, then Macbeth and Banquo fought off an attack from the Norwegian how had teamed up with the rebels. Rosse arrives and tells the king that Macbeth has defeated the Norwegians and has taken the rebel thane of Cowdor prisoner. Duncan wants Cowdor to be killed, and transfers his title to Macbeth.
we started from the beginning together, and there are some spelling errors
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Macbeth is having a battle with his thoughts in his head, he dose not want to kill the king because he is a good king and Macbeth is receiving lots of praise from the king. he is enjoying the feeling of the kings praise and doesn’t want that feeling to go away so soon.
Lady Macbeth questioned his manhood and makes him feel small. to convince Macbeth to kill Duncan lady Macbeth says “How tender’s to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this” by saying this Lady Macbeth shows how far she would go and how evil she is. It also shows how important she thinks it is to keep a promise
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AT the beginning of this scene we see Banquo and his son come across Macbeth. Macbeth asks Banquo to be loyal and if so he will be rewarded. He says ‘if you shall cleave to my consent, when ’tis it shall make honour for you’. Banquo responds positively to this but says as long as he can do it with a clear conscience.
in the next part of the scene Macbeth starts his soliloquy where he imagines there’s a dagger and how it’s drawing him towards killing Duncan. He gets to a point where he feels like he’s loosing so must move on to the murder
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Macbeth has killed Duncan off stage and goes to tell Lady Macbeth that it is done. Lady Macbeth drugged the servants so it would easier to pin the blame on them. Macbeth has instant regret and is afraid to go back to place the dagger and smear blood on the servant to make it look like they did it. Lady Macbeth makes him to be a coward and goes and does it. IN this quote ‘Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil’ Lady Macbeth is saying that Macbeth is being childish and frightened of what he has done.
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The porter responds to the knocking at the gate as a moment of humour after Duncan’s murder. MacDuff goes to wake the king and discovers he is dead. Macbeth killed the servants – saying it was because he was so upset that the king was dead.
Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious,
Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man:
The expedition my violent love
Outrun the pauser, reason.
Macbeth
Malcolm and Donalbain then entered the scene, acknowledged to each other that they, being next in line to the throne, might next be murdered and agreed to leave Scotland and re-group.
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PATHETIC FALLACY
by the clock, ’tis day,
And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp:
Is’t night’s predominance, or the day’s shame,
That darkness does the face of earth entomb,
When living light should kiss it?
Old Man
In this scene, an old man and Ross discuss the unnatural events of the night before. The old man says that while it’s meant to be daytime, it is still dark.
This is an example of pathetic fallacy: where Shakespeare has made it dark in the daytime to show the consequences to the natural order for the murder of Duncan.
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When first they put the name of king upon me,
Macbeth
Macbeth believes what the witches said to him at the begging of the play and this makes him think he has to kill Banquo and his son to live safely and still be king
in this scene Macbeth asks Banquo to come to his dinner at the castle Banquo then says he will be going on a horse ride with his son Fleance, Macbeth asks lots of details about his ride. Macbeth then talks to murderes 1 and 2, he convinces them that Banquo is their enemy and uses the analogy of different dog breeds and there qualities as to how they would be seen if they did or didn’t kill Banquo for him.
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‘ treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!20Thou may ’st revenge —O slave’
Banquo
This is short scene where the murderers are joined by another murderer. They Kill Banquo as he is walking to the palace with his son.
As he realises what’s happening he tells Fleance to run and to one day seek revenge
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There the grown serpent lies. The worm that’s fledHath nature that in time will venom breed;No teeth for th’ present.
Macbeth
Macbeth is hosting a dinner party for his friends and gets interrupted by murderer #1. He discovers that Banquo is dead but Fleance managed to escape the murderers. Macbeth is still trying to convince the murderer that Banquo and his son are bad people but that Fleance is not too much of a threat at the moment but could be in the future.
At the dinner table Macbeth see’s the ghost of Banquo sitting in his chair and gets upset. Lady Macbeth tells him to snap out of it and tells the guests it’s normal behaviour for him and to ignore it. Macbeth toasts to Banquo and his absence saying he hopes no ill has come to him, knowing full well he is dead in a ditch. Banquo’s ghost appears again and Macbeth becomes more agitated so Lady Macbeth makes all the guests leave and in any order ( not in their rank)
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Hecate
the first witch asks Hecate why she is angry and Hecate says she is angry about how the three witches were professising to Macbeth and Banquo and it has made Macbeth overly confident . Hecate has decided that she wants to get him back with some spells.
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IN this scene we see that Macduff could be a possible threat to Macbeth, we also see that Lennox seems to realise Macbeths guilt in killing Duncan
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The witches are making a potion in their cauldron and Macbeth comes and asks what’s in his future. They show him some apparitions and the last being eight kings and one is Banquo. The witches leave and Lennox come to tell Macbeth the news about Macduff. Macbeth says he will kill Macduff and his family
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Lady Macduff is angry at Macduff for leaving she says it makes him look like a guilty traitor. A messenger says that something bad is coming and that Lady Macduff should hide with her child. some murders arrive and kill her son but she gets away.
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Macduff arrives in England and talks with Malcom then ross arrives and says how things are going bad in Scotland and that Macbeth has had Macduff’s family murdered the three of them then plan revenge on Macbeth.
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lady Macbeths gentlewoman and doctor watch as lady Macbeth sleep walks and she says things about trying to wash the blood off her hands and says things about killing banqo and feeling guilty.
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a group of Scottish lords plan to meet up with Malcom and the English soilders to fight Macbeth and his soldiers.
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Macbeth is feeling pretty confident about going into battle because of the witches and their previous prophecies he b relives he will remain king. he puts his armer on to prepare for battle.
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the lords meet Malcom and the English soldiers at the Birnam Forest and instruct each of the solders to take a branch off a tree to help them camouflage so that hopefully they will make Macbeths spies thing there are less soldiers than there really is so that the English can out number Macbeths army.
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Macbeths soliliquy
She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
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Add Yours →You’re continuing to write succinct and effective summaries. It’s particularly good to see that you’re keeping track of important quotations as you go. Nice work!