Macbeth and Banquo defeat invading armies for King Duncan. They meet witches who prophesize Macbeth will be king. When Duncan names Macbeth Thane of Cawdor, fulfilling one prophecy, Macbeth's ambition grows. Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to kill Duncan, which he does. Macbeth becomes king but grows increasingly paranoid. He arranges to have Banquo and his son killed but Fleance escapes. Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost and becomes more tyrannical, while rebels begin to oppose his rule.

1. Act 1-3

2. Major Characters
Macbeth
Banquo
A Scottish General A Scottish General
and The Thane of Glamis

3. King Duncan Lady Macbeth
The King of Scotland Macbeth's wife

4. Act 1
• Macbeth and Banquo, • Three witches prophesied the
two courageous Scottish following to Macbeth:
generals, had defeated "All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee,
two invading armies. Thane of Glamis!"
• Together, they "All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee,
Thane of Cawdor!"
encountered the witches
as they crossed the "All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be
King hereafter!"(1.3.48-50)
moor
The witches said to Banquo:
"Thou shalt get kings: though
thou be none. So all hail,
Macbeth and Banquo!" (1.3.67-
68)

5. • King Duncan named • Macbeth told her wife about
Macbeth as thane of all that had happened
Cawdor, and Macbeth
started to ponder about Lady Macbeth was not
whether the remainder of indecisive like Macbeth. She
the witches' prophesies questioned his manhood and
might really come true persduaded Macbeth to kill
King Duncan that night
• Macbeth invited King
Duncan to dine at • Lady Macbeth equated
Inverness--Macbeth's masculinity with cruelty,
castle which is one of the
important themes

6. Lady Macbeth was not indecisive" That croaks the fatal entrance of
Duncan
like Macbeth. She questioned his
Under my battlements. Come, you
manhood and persduaded spirits
Macbeth to kill King Duncan That tend to mortal thoughts,
that night unsex me here,
Lady Macbeth culinity with And fill me, from the crown to the
cruelty, which is one of the toe, top-full
important themes . Of direst cruelty! Make thick my
blood,
Stop up th' access and passage to
remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of
nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep
peace between
Th' effect and it! " (1.5.39-47)

7. Act 2
• After listening to his wife, "Is this a dagger which I see
Macbeth decided to kill before me,
Duncan. When he was about to The handle toward my thee
Come, let me clutch
hand?
kill King Duncan, he had a (2.1.33-34)."
hallucination of a bloody "And on thy blade and dudgeon
dagger. gouts of blood,
Which was not so before. There's
no such thing.
It is the bloody business which
informs
Thus to mine eyes (2.1.48-49).

8. • However, that did not stop
him from killing Duncan.
Macbeth stabbed Duncan
while he was asleep, and his
decision was a sign that he
could no longer turn back.
• Blood became a symbol
• Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
of guilt started to feel that the blood or
their wrongdoings had stained
them that can no longer be
washed clean
• "Will all great Neptune's ocean
wash this blood/ Clean from my
hand?" (2.2.58-59)

9. Act 3
• Because Macbeth's • Macbeth remebered the
ambition--his desire for witches' prophesy and was
power and advancement-- afraid that Banquo's heirs
was not guided by his will seize the throne. As a
morality, he became a cruel result, Macbeth hired
tyrant. murderers to kill Banquo and
his son, Fleance.
Nevertheless, Fleance
escaped and survived.

10. " Here had we now our
country's honor roofed • That night, Macbeth
Were the graced person saw Banquo's ghost at
of our Banquo present the feast. Macbeth's
Who may I rather hallucinations startled
challenge for unkindness his noble guests.
Than pity for
mischance!" (3.4.41-43).
• Lady Macbeth tried to
neutralize the damage by
letting his guests know
that Macbeth was not in
the best state, and she
politely asekd the guests
to leave.

11. • After Macbeth's emotional state stabilized, he decided
to meet the witches again on the following day
because he wanted to know more about his future.
• Lennox, a Scottish nobleman, talked with another
lord, and they both suspected that Macbeth murdered
Duncan and Banquo. The lord told Lennox that
Macduff had gone to England to join
Malcolm(Duncan's older son), and they were
preparing to fight with Macbeth in order to save
Scotland.

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