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Who was Macbeth?
Macbeth was a brave warrior who fought a lot of people in the battle, killing thousands including the Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth becomes very weird and suspicious after meeting 3 witches.
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What was the Witches Prophecies that they told Macbeth at the start of the play?
What did they tell Banquo?
The prophecies were
1) Macbeth would become Thane of Cawdor
2)Macbeth would become king
3) Banquo will never become king but his descendants will.
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Who was Banquo?
Banquo was Macbeths best friend.
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Why wasn't Lady Macbeth like all the other women?
Basically Lady Macbeth wanted more power and she seen her self as a man and
basically wanted to go and kill not stay at home and clean. She is very good at manipulating!
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What happened to King Duncan?
Lady Macbeth manipulates Macbeth into killing King Duncan so that Macbeth will become king and so Lady Macbeth will have some sort of power. Even though Macbeth just got names the new Thane of Cawdor
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What is one quote that Lady Macbeth and Macbeth say! That shows that something is going off.
Macbeth: "Is this a dagger I see before me"- shows he is hallucinating.

Lady Macbeth: "Un-sex me here"- showing she wants to be a man.
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What does Macbeth do when he hears about Macduff?
Macbeth actually hires trained assassins to go and kill Macduff's family.
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What does Lady Macbeth start doing?
After feeling the guilt and Betrayal of killing the king she starts to wash 'imaginary blood' off her
hands and she starts 'sleepwalking'- which leads to her death.
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What does Macduff do with Malcom- the kings eldest son.?
Macduff helps Malcom attack Scotland by grabbing twigs and sticks and moving towards Macbeths castle.
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What does Macduff do to get revenge?
He gets revenge by chopping off Macbeths head and sticking it on a stick.
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What was Macduff?
Macduff was the Thane of Fife.
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What does Macbeth do to Banquo?
Banquo becomes quite suspicious of Macbeth and it worries Macbeth a bit. so Macbeth had people to go into the woods and kill Banquo and his son Fleance.
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Who escapes?
Fleance escapes and tries to get help.
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What does Macbeth see?
Whilst at a dinner party that Macbeth sorted. Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost sat in his chair and Macbeth gets scared and goes into shock. Lady
Macbeth says that Macbeth is unwell and everyone should go home immediately but he insists on everyone staying
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What did Lady Macbeth and Macbeth do after killing the king?
They smeared blood over the guards body's to look like they killed the king. in the morning Macbeth 'supposedly' knew nothing about it and just instantly killed the guards to cover up there tracks.
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What happened to the kings sons? Malcom and Donalbain?
They fled the country and didn't come back. They was too scared that they was going to be targeted next.
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What does lady Macbeth mean when she says "Unsex me here"?
She means that she wants to be a man and that she wants more power, emphasising that she would rather go out and kill someone, that stay at home and clean. Lady Macbeth is very difficult to get your head round. she is very eager to pull you in and believe
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Does Macbeth feel any guilt?
Yes, he does feel guilt because he killed the king. He committed treason. For that he struggles to sleep and it leads him to some very tough situations later on in the play.
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What did Macbeth do for the second time?
Macbeth went and seen the witches for more prophecies on what will happen.
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Does Lady Macbeths and Macbeths relationship change?
Yes, it changes because they both are guilty for what they did to the king but also they don't communicate nor speak as much.
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What was the Witches Prophecies that they told Macbeth at the start of the play?
What did they tell Banquo?

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The prophecies were
1) Macbeth would become Thane of Cawdor
2)Macbeth would become king
3) Banquo will never become king but his descendants will.

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Who was Banquo?

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