Over the course of the pay Macbeth mental state majorly deteriorated. This all started when Macbeth first met the witches. Shakespeare uses Dramatic devices to show the witches as other worldly by making them speak in iambic trimeter a different rhythm to those of earth, In the play Macbeth characters speak in the iambic pentameter […]

Characters: Doctor, Gentle-woman, Lady MacBeth Location: A room in the castle The doctor tells the gentle woman about Lady MacBeths habit of sleepwalking. Lady MacBeth then walks in, in a trance she speaks of the blood she thinks is on her hands and how she can’t wash it off. She starts speaking of Banquo and […]

Location: England MacDuff came to Malcolm to say it was MacBeth who killed his father. Malcolm was not sure if he could trust MacDuff at first because he had suspicion that MacDuff was helping MacBeth. Malcolm finally decided he could trust MacDuff, Malcolm was angry and was instantly planning to get revenge and said that […]

an old man and Rosse were talking about the strange things that had been going on recently and how it had been so dark, and how Rosse had seen Duncan’s great horses eat each other. Then Macduff came and said that the two sons Donalbain and Malcolm were the main suspects as they had fled […]

Macbeths castle morning The porter complained about the knocking early in the morning. Macduff and Lenox came to the castle and went with Macbeth to see if the king had woken up. Macduff wondered if the king had stirred and Macbeth said he hadn’t yet so They went into his room and found him murdered. […]

Location: A room in Macbeth’s castle

Characters:Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Lenox, Macbeth, Banquo, Rosse, Angus

In act 1 scene 4 Macbeth sees his cousin Duncan the king and Malcolm for the first time since he met the Witches and they had said he would be king. Duncan names Malcolm air to the throne right when macbeth thought that he would leave it to fait to choose how he becomes king. Aside Macbeth says “The prince of cumberland!-That is a step I must fall down, or else o’erleap, for in my way it lies. Stars hide your fires! Let not light see my black an deep desires;”, This is showing that Macbeth was thinking of such bad things that would be about someone who could have him killed and he did not want to show anyone or let anyone find out about his dark thoughts. Continue reading →

Time: evening location: outside of Macbeths castle events: Duncan arrived at Macbeth’s castle and were welcomed by Lady Macbeth and Banquo. Duncan “where’s the thane of Cawdor”. Lad Macbeth pretend to be pleased to see Duncan, and shows her personality again and she is doing what she told Macbeth to do the scene before “look […]

Malcolm becomes prince of cumberland. Lady Macbeth got a letter from Macbeth about the meeting with the witches on the heath and that they said he would become thane of Cawdor and king and that he had soon after became thane of Cawdor. Lady Macbeth says Macbeth is weak because he doesn’t kill him then […]

Macbeth and Banquo met the witches and they said Macbeth was thane of Glamis which he was and thane of Cawdor which he found out he was minutes after the witches left and then they said he would become king. When Macbeth found out he was thane of Cawdor he started thinking he would become […]

The witches spoke in Trochaic Trimeter. the start showed that the three witches would be a part of this play and that they were going to meet again after some sort of battle that would take place, they said they would meet Macbeth upon the heath, they would meet “when the hurlyburly’s done, when the […]