Macbeth

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Act 1 Scene 1
Thunder and lightning - The first thing that the audience see and hear is thunder and lightning. This immediately shows that conflict is coming and sets the frightening, negative tone of the play
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Act 1 Scene 1
Three witches - The play opens with the three witches meeting. They are planning to meet with Macbeth when the fighting is finished. Shakespeare begins with the witches to show the audience that the play has supernatural themes from the start
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Act 1 Scene 1
''Fair is foul and foul is fair' - The witches talk about the changes happening in nature: ‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’. This shows that turmoil (disruption) has already started in the natural world.
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Act 1 Scene 1
The theme of evil-doing and deception recurs in the story. This is the first indication that things may not always be as they appear. Macbeth appears to be a good friend and a heroic character. But when he is tempted by power, he becomes a villainous
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Analysis - 'Fair is foul and foul is fair' Act 1, Scene 1
Macbeth murders numerous people, including his own friends. This is an oxymoron (words which mean opposite things) and suggests to the audience that things are not always as they appear.
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Act 1, Scene 2
There is a meeting at King Duncan’s headquarters. A bleeding captain has brought the king news of the battle.Macbeth has fought well and killed Macdonald. ‘unseam’d him from nave to th’ chops / And fix’d his head upon our battlements’
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Act 1, Scene 2
Ross, another Thane, arrives with news of Macbeth’s fight against Norway and another traitor, the Thane of Cawdor. He rewards Macbeth with his title: ‘with his former title greet Macbeth’; ‘What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won’.Thane of Cawdor
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Act 1, Scene 3
This scene begins with thunder again as the witches return to the stage.The first witch tells a story about how a sailor's wife refused to give her chestnuts. She plans to torture her husband.They cast a charm when they hear Macbeth and Banquo coming
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Act 1, Scene 3
The witches greet Macbeth:The first witch calls him ‘Thane of Glamis’,second calls him‘Thane of Cawdor which hasn't been revealed to Macbeth (first prophecy).third says he will be king(second prophecy):‘All hail Macbeth,that shalt be king hereafter
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Act 1, Scene 3
Banquo is told that even though he is ‘lesser’ – lower in status than Macbeth – he will be ‘greater’, because he ‘shalt get kings’ (third prophecy). This means that his children will be kings.
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Act 1, Scene 3
Macbeth orders the witches to explain, but they vanish. Ross and Angus arrive. Ross tells Macbeth that he has been given the title, Thane of Cawdor.
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Act 1, Scene 3
Macbeth is torn. On the one hand, what the witches have said is good because he is now Thane of Cawdor. But he is afraid that something would have to happen to King Duncan for him to become king.
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Act 1, Scene 3
He decides that, if Macbeth has decided he will be king, he can become king without doing anything: ‘If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me / Without my stir.’Macbeth decides he will ride to see the king.
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Act 1, Scene 4
King Duncan and his son, Malcolm, talking about the previous Thane of Cawdor’s execution.Macbeth arrives. King Duncan praises him and Macbeth says it was his duty to kill the traitor.King Duncan announces that his eldest son, Malcolm is the heir
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Act 1, Scene 4
n an aside, Macbeth says that Malcolm is now an obstacle for him. He admits that he wants the crown, even though it is disloyal to want it: ‘Stars, hide your fires, / Let not light see my black and deep desires’.
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Act 1, Scene 5
Lady Macbeth reading a letter aloud from her husband. The letter tells her what the witches said to him.she is worried that Macbeth is too good to take action to get the crown.She wants to manipulate him into getting the crown.
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Act 1, Scene 5
The attendant tells Lady Macbeth that the king is coming to stay with them that night.the servant leaves, Lady Macbeth talks to the spirits. asks them to make her less womanly so that she can be cruel/make Macbeth to become king.
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Act 1, Scene 5
Macbeth arrives. Lady Macbeth makes her intentions clear to Macbeth.
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Act 1, Scene 6
King Duncan arrives and Lady Macbeth comes out to greet him. King Duncan uses praising language to address her: ‘honour’d hostess’; ‘fair and noble hostess’; 'by your leave, hostess'.creates dramatic irony.she plans for him to die in her home.
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Three witches - The play opens with the three witches meeting. They are planning to meet with Macbeth when the fighting is finished. Shakespeare begins with the witches to show the audience that the play has supernatural themes from the start

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''Fair is foul and foul is fair' - The witches talk about the changes happening in nature: ‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’. This shows that turmoil (disruption) has already started in the natural world.

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The theme of evil-doing and deception recurs in the story. This is the first indication that things may not always be as they appear. Macbeth appears to be a good friend and a heroic character. But when he is tempted by power, he becomes a villainous

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Macbeth murders numerous people, including his own friends. This is an oxymoron (words which mean opposite things) and suggests to the audience that things are not always as they appear.

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