Macbeth Summary

• The three Witches agree to meet Macbeth
• Macbeth goes with Banquo to meet the WItches after they have won the battle.
• The witches make three prophecies - Thane of Cawdor, King and they Banquo's son will be king.
• King Duncan makes Macbeth Thane of Cawdor (one of the prophecies has come true)
• Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth about the prophecies.
  
• She plans to persuade Macbeth to murder Duncan
• Duncan comes to stay at the castle, and Macbeth kills him, after Lady Macbeth's persuasion.

• The raven himself is horse
• Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts
• Unsex me here
• Take my milk for gall
• Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent underneath it- Lady Macbeth
• Fair and noble hostess- Duncan
• I dare do all that may become a man, whos dares do more is none- Macbeth
• But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail- Lady Macbeth

• Macbeth murders Duncan and Lady Macbeth places the daggers on the servants.
• Macduff discovers Duncan
• Malcolm and Donalbain leave Scotland- making them look guilty
• Macbeth gets crowned but not everyone supports him
• Macbeth becomes king but feels worrie about the Witches prediction of Banquo's children to become king.
• He orders assassins to kill Banquo and his son Fleance
• They kill Banquo but Fleance escapes
• People begin to suspect that MAcbeth killed Duncan and Banquo.
• Macduff starts getting an army together to kill Macbeth and make Malcolm the king

• Is this a dagger which I see before me?- Macbeth
• Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?- Macbeth
• There's daggers in men's smiles- Donalbain

Act 3

• And I feat thou play'dst most folly of it- Banquo
• Banquo, thy soul's flight, if it find heaven, must find it out tonight- Macbeth
• After life's fitful fever he sleeps well- Macbeth (about Duncan)
• What's done is done- Lady Macbeth
• Thou canst not say that I did it- Macbeth to Banquo's ghost

• Macbeth sees the Witches again and they get three apparitions
• They each make a new prophecy.
• 1. 'Beware Macduff, beware the Thane of Fife'
• 2. 'None of woman born shall harm Macbeth'
• 3.'Macbeth shall never vanquished until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him'
• Macduff has fled to England.
• Macbeth sends murderers to kill Macduff's wife and kids
• Macduff proves his loyalty to Malcolm by revealing that the Enlgish king has given him 10,000 soldiers to fight Macbeth.
• Macduff learns Macbeth had killed his children and wife and wants to avenge their deaths

• By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.- Second Witch
• All of my pretty ones?.. What, all my pretty chickens?- Macduff
• Dispute it like a man- Malcolm

• Lady Macbeth has gone mental in this act, she starts sleep walking and washing blood off of her hands (there is no blood there)
• Scottish lords meet English army to plan to attack Macbeth
• Macbeth can hear the English army but doesn't show any fear as he thinks he is invincible because of the Witches' predictions.
• Malcolm tells he soldiers to cut the branches of Birnham Wood and use them to hide so they can get to Macbeth's castle (one of the witches predictions)
• Macbeth gets ready for battle
• Lady Macbeth has killed herself
• Macbeth and Macduff meet on the battlefield, Macbeth is confident he will win
• Macduff reveals he was not born from a woman naturally but by c-section (one of the Witches predictions)
• They fight and Macbeth is killed
• Malcolm is then made king of Scotland

• Out damned spot! Out I say!-Lady Macbeth
• All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand- Lady Macbeth
• She should have died hereafter- Macbeth
• What's he not born of woman? Such a one, am I to fear or none- Macbeth
• Macduf was from his mother's womb, utimely ripped- Macduff