Macbeth Act 5 Scene 6 Summary

Characters: Malcom, Old Siward, Macduff

Location: A plain before the castle

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Events: Malcom tells old siward that him and his son will lead the first battle

Quote: “Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath, those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.”

Macbeth Act 5 Scene 5 Summary

Characters: Macbeth Seyton and soldiers. Messenger

Location: Dunsinane a room in the castle

Events: Macbeth has no fears left. Lady macbeth dies of madness. Birnam wood is moving toward the castle.

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Macbeth Act 5 Scene 4 Summary

Characters: Malcolm, Old Siward and his son, Macduff, Menteth, Cathness, Angus, Lenox, Rosse and soldiers.

Location: A country near Dunsinane, a wood in sight

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Events: Soldiers will shadow their numbers with branches from birnam wood (witch prophecy), they think the tyrant will stay in his castle.

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Macbeth Act 5 Scene 3 Summary

Characters: Macbeth, Servant, Seyton, Doctor

Location: Dunsinane a room in the castle

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Events: Macbeth has lost respect from servants, he believes he cannot be harmed or defeated until birnam wood moves to that hill so he is well over-confident. He wants his armour so he can go and fight. He wants the doctor to cure the battle with some medicine, he looks for an easy way out.

Quote: “Bring me no more reports: let them fly all: till birnam wood remove to Dunsinane”

Macbeth Act 5 Scene 2 Summary

Characters: Menteth, Cathness, Angus, Lenox and soldiers

Location: the country near Dunsinane

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Events: Talk about the english army they are young, Revenge burns inside people. Macbeth now feels the guilt of killing duncan. Scotish soldiers have lost faith in their leader but still have faith in loyalty or to Scotland.

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Macbeth Act 5 Scene 1 Summary

Characters: Doctor, Physic, Waiting gentle-woman, lady macbeth

Location: Dunsinane a room in the castle

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Events: Lady macbeth is walking, talking and writing in her sleep. She is revealing all her secrets to her servants, that she killed duncan and stuff.

Quote: “Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him” this could not just be literally duncans blood but it could mean that lady macbeth didn’t think about all the following consequences of killing duncan; all the guilt and more killing and evils and unhappiness.

Macbeth Act 4 Scene 3 Summary

Charaters: Macduff, Malcom, Rosse

Location: England, A room in the kings palace

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Events: malcom pretends to be really evil to test macduffs trust

 

Macbeth Act 4 Scene 2 Summary

Characters: Lady macduff, Rosse, Son, Messenger, Murderer

Location: A room in macduffs castle

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Events: lady macduff wonders why macduff left scotland thinks he ditched because he was fearful and left his family to die. Rosse tells her that her husband is a very noble. talk about being traitors, a traitor is one that swears and lies. lady macduff say traitors must be hanged the honest man will hang them but the liers and wearers will beat up the honest man and hang him. murderers kill son and wife runs away.

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Macbeth Act 4 Scene 1 Summary

Characters: three witches, hecate, macbeth and lenox  and three aparitions

Location: A dark cave

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Events: three witches make a powerful potion. macbeth shows up. aparition Armed head shows up and says macbeth needs to be aware of macduff. Bloody child shows up and says he cannot be killed by anyone born of a women. A crowned child with a tree in his hand says he cannot be defeatedd in battle until great birnam wood moves to dunsinane hill. he has false security that now he can’t be defeated but he wants to know whether banquos son will be kings. Banquo ghost and eight other kings that are banquos kids show up, macbeth is sad about that. Witches vanish and lenox comes in, lenox didnt see any witches so we wonder wether they are just in macbeths head. Lenox tells macbeth that macduff fled to england so macbeth goes to kill macduffs family

Quote: “How now, you secret, black and midnight hags!” macbeth “Laugh to scorn the power of man, for none born of a women shall harm macbeth” 2 apparition, makes him feel over confident and want more power.

Macbeth Act 3 Scene 6 Summary

Characters: Lenox and lord

Location: Somewhere in scotland

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Events: Fleance may have killed his father and fled. Macduff gone to England with Malcom, to Northumberland and Siward and the king to start a war against Macbeth. Macbeth is preparing for the war. The rich people of Scotland don’t like Macbeth and want the army to take him out.

Quote: “Under a hand Accursed” talking about macbeth