Macbeth Act 1 SCENE 1: WITCHES ARE DOING WITCHY THINGS

SCENE 2: SERVANT REPORTS TO KING DUNCAN: A) WAR WITH NORWAY B) TRAITOR: THANE OF CAWDOR C) MACBETH IS AWESOME

KING DUNCAN SAYS: KILL THANE OF CAWDOR, AND GIVE HIS TITLE TO AWESOME (NOBLE, BRAVE) MACBETH

SCENE 3: WITCHES DOING WITCHY THINGS A) CALL MACBETH “THANE OF GLAMIS” B) CALL MACBETH “THANE OF CAWDOR” C) CALL MACBETH “KING THAT SHALT BE”

BANQUO, MACBETH’S BESTIE, SAYS, “HEY, TELL ME MY FUTURE!”

WITCHES SAY: A) LESSER THAN MACBETH, BUT GREATER B) NOT SO HAPPY, BUT MUCH HAPPIER C) THOU SHALT GET KINGS, THOUGH THOU BE NONE

ROSS ( A NOBLEMAN) SHOWS UP, CALLS MACBETH “THANE OF CAWDOR”

MACBETH THINKS: HMMM….IF I AM THANE OF CAWDOR, AND THE WITCHES WERE RIGHT ABOUT THAT, AND THEY CALLED ME “KING”….???

SCENE 4: A) KING DUNCAN NAMES HIS SON, MALCOLM, AS HEIR TO THE THRONE. B) MACBETH REACTS: “THIS IS A STEP ON WHICH I MUST FALL DOWN OR ELSE OVERLEAP, FOR IN MY WAY IT LIES.”

SCENE 5: MACBETH WRITES LADY MACBETH A LETTER, TELLING HER ABOUT THE WITCHES AND WHAT THEY SAID.

LADY MACBETH SAYS: A) MACBETH IS “TOO FULL OF THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS TO CATCH THE NEAREST WAY” TO BE KING B) MACBETH WOULD BE GREAT AND HAS AMBITION, BUT “WITHOUT THE EVILNESS SHOULD ATTEND IT.” C) MACBETH SHOULD LISTEN TO HER “POUR HER SPIRITS IN HIS EAR AND CHASTISE WITH THE VAOLOR OF HER TONGUE ALL THAT IMPEDES HIM FROM THE GOLDEN ROUND WHICH FATE HAS CROWNED HIM WITH”

LADY MACBETH SAYS “UNSEX ME HERE” AND “FILL ME UP WITH DIREST CRUELTY”

MACBETH TELLS LADY MACBETH: “DUNCAN COMES HERE TONIGHT” LADY MACBETH TELLS MACBETH TO “LOOK LIKE THE INNOCENT FLOWER BUT BE THE SERPENT UNDER IT”

SCENE 6: DUNCAN TALKS ABOUT HOW LOVELY THE MACBETH’S CASTLE IS, AND WHAT LOVELY PEOPLE THEY ARE

SCENE 7: MACBETH’S SOLILOQUY AND LADY MACBETH’S PLAN

ACT 2 SCENE 1 BANQUO AND MACBETH TALK ABOUT THE WITCHES. BANQUO SAYS, “TO YOU THEY HAVE SHOWN SOME TRUTH” MACBETH SAYS, “I THINK NOT OF THEM”

SCENE 2: 1. LADY MACBETH AND MACBETH HEAR LOTS OF NOISES 2. MACBETH KILLED THE KING BUT BROUGHT THE DAGGERS BACK WITH HIM 3. LADY MACBETH PLANTS THE DAGGERS ON THE GUARDS 4. BOTH MACBETHS SEEM TERRIFIED

SCENE 3: 1. THE DRUNKEN PORTER ANSWERS THE DOOR WHEN MACDUFF COMES LOOKING FOR THE KING 2. EVERYONE DISCOVERS THAT THE KING HAS BEEN MURDERED 3. MACBETH KILLS THE GUARDS

SCENE 4: MACBETH IS NAMED KING (BECAUSE DUNCAN’S SONS, MALCOLM AND DONALBAIN, FLED THE COUNTRY)

ACT 3 SCENE 1: 1. BANQUO STARTS TO WONDER IF MACBETH HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE KING’S MURDER 2. MACBETH HIRES MURDERERS TO KILL BANQUO AND HIS SON (SO THAT HIS SON CAN’T BE KING IN THE FUTURE)

SCENE 2: LADY MACBETH IS UNHAPPY. “NOUGHT’S HAD, ALL’S SPENT, WHEN OUR DESIRE IS GOT WITHOUT CONTENT. TIS SAFER TO BE THAT WHICH WE DESTROY THAN BY DESTRUCTION DWELL IN DOUBTFUL JOY…”

SCENE 3: BANQUO IS MURDERED, BUT HIS SON ESCAPES

SCENE 4: THE MACBETHS ARE HAVING A DINNER PARTY, AND MACBETH HALLUCINATES: HE SEES THE GHOST OF DEAD BANQUO AT THE PARTY AND HE FREAKS OUT

SCENE 6: SOME NOBLEMEN ARE TALKING…THE COUNTRY ISN’T SUPER HAPPY WITH MACBETH’S LEADERSHIP…AND THERE’S A RUMOR THAT MACDUFF IS GOING TO ENGLAND TO TRY TO TRACK DOWN DUNCAN’S SON MALCOLM…

ACT 4 SCENE 1: MACBETH VISITS THE WITCHES AND ASKS FOR MORE INFORMATION. THEY TELL HIM: 1. BEWARE MACDUFF 2. NO MAN OF WOMAN BORN CAN HARM MACBETH 3. MACBETH WILL NEVER BE VANQUISHED UNTIL THE WOODS MARCH ON THE CASTLE

SCENE 2: MACDUFF’S WIFE AND CHILDREN ARE MURDERED WHILE MACDUFF IS IN ENGLAND

SCENE 3: MACDUFF AND MALCOLM TALK. A) MALCOLM TESTS MACDUFF TO SEE IF MACDUFF IS LOYAL TO SCOTLAND OR LOYAL TO MACBETH B) MALCOLM AGREES TO COME BACK TO SCOTLAND AND OVERTHROW MACBETH

MACDUFF FINDS OUT THAT HIS ENTIRE FAMILY HAS BEEN MURDERED MALCOLM TELLS HIM TO FOCUS HIS RAGE AND TAKE REVENGE ON MACBETH

ACT 5 SCENE 1: LADY MACBETH HAS BEEN SLEEPWALKING, TRYING TO WASH THE “BLOOD” OFF HER HANDS, AND BASICALLY TALKING IN HER SLEEP, REVEALING EVERYTHING THEY’VE DONE

A SERVANT REPORTS TO MACBETH THAT THE ENTIRE WOODS LOOKS LIKE IT IS MOVING UP THE HILL TOWARD THE CASTLE. (MALCOLM AND HIS ARMY CUT DOWN BRANCHES AS CAMOUFLAGE)

LADY MACBETH KILLS HERSELF. MACBETH SAYS, “SHE SHOULD HAVE DIED HEREAFTER… ALL OUR YESTERDAYS HAVE LIGHTED FOOLS THE WAY TO DUSTY DEATH. 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.”

MACDUFF SHOWS UP. MACBETH SAYS HE’S NOT AFRAID, SINCE NO MAN BORN OF A WOMAN CAN HARM HIM. MACDUFF SAYS HE WAS “FROM HIS MOTHER’S WOMB UNTIMELY RIPPED.”

MACDUFF KILLS MACBETH, BEHEADS HIM, AND GIVES THE HEAD TO MALCOLM. MALCOLM IS CROWNED KING. MALCOLM MAKES ALL OF THE NOBLEMEN “EARLS” ~THE END~