Macbeth Act 3 Scene 5 Summary

Characters: Three witches, Hecate

Location: The heath

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Events: Hecate king witch is angry because she is left out of messing with macbeth. They will make macbeth want immortality, because he wont have security.

Macbeth Act 3 Scene 4 Summary

Characters: Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Rosse, Lenox, Lords and Attendants ghost of Banquo, a murderer

Location: A room of state in the palace

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Events: Party at Mac’s place, murderer tells Macbeth that Banquo is dead and Fleance escaped, stabbed 20 times. Banquo ghost spooks Macbeth but the other party members do not see him. Lady Macbeth tells them that it is a disorder Macbeth has had from childhood. Haunted by ghost. Macbeth super paranoid now. Macduff didn’t attend. Macbeth says he will find the weird sisters to know more about the future.

Quote: “More shall they speak; for now I am bent to know.”

Macbeth Act 3 Scene 2

Characters: Lady Macbeth a servant and Macbeth

Location: Forres another room

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Events: Lady macbeth doesnt feel the happiness she thought she would from becoming queen. Lady macbeth calms macbeth down as macbeth is paranoid, tells him to move on. Macbeth is haunted by fear. They will hide their evil deeds behind vizards. Macbeth is not going to tell lady macbeth about him killing banquo and fleance so she is innocent of the knowledge.

Quote: “O! Full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!”

Macbeth Act 3 Scene 1 Summary

Characters: Banqou, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Lenox, Rosse, Lords and attendants, Murderer 1, Murderer 2

Location: Forres A room in the palace

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Events: Banquo thinks macbeth got to king fouly but he believes his sons will be king. Banqou goes for a horse ride and takes his son. Macbeth doesnt trust banqou and thinks he expects something. Macbeth is annoyed that He did all the bad deeds and murder but banqou gets to benefit for his sons become king. Macbeth brings in two murderers to kill banqou as macbeth thinks he is his enemy.

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Macbeth Act 2 Scene 4 Summary

Characters: Rosse, Old man and Macduff

Location: Outside the castle

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Events: Sets up for the next part of the play. They believe the guards killed King Duncan and that malcom and donalbain made them. Nature is out of order

Quote: horses ate each other

Macbeth Act 2 Scene 3 Summary

Characters: A porter, Macduff and lenox, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Banquo, Malcolm and Donalbain

Location: A courtyard in macbeths castle

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Events: Macduff and lenox knock and a porter is comic relief, macduff and lenox come to collect the king. Macduff finds the king dead. Macbeth is overly sad, he kills guards. Lady macbeth faints. Everybody does not believe the guards killed the king. Malcom says he will go to england and donalbain says he will go to ireland. They do this as they are afraid of being blamed for killing duncan because they are his sons.

Quote: “Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral, in a moment?”

Act 2 Scene 2 Summary

Characters: Macbeth, Lady Macbeth

Location: Macbeths castle

Time: after midnight

Events: Macbeth has killed duncan and feels very guilty. Macbeth brought the daggers back, lady macbeth puts them back and gets as bloody as duncan. Duncan says his blood guilt could not be washed by the ocean but would make the oceans run red. Lady macbeth feels like a little water will wash her guilt away. They prepare to feel sad about hearing of duncans death

Quote: “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red>

Macbeth Act 2 Scene 1 Summary

Characters: Banquo, Fleance, Macbeth and a servant

Location: A court within the castle

Time: Midnight

Events: Banquo may assume something is up, macbeth lies to him about thinking about the three weird sisters. Macbeth is to kill duncan when lady macbeth strikes the bell. Macbeth talks to an imaginary dagger and questions his sanity.

Quote: “Thou marshall’st the way that i was going;”

Macbeth Act 1 scene 7

Characters: Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Servants

Location: the sewer of the castle

Time: Unknown

Events: Macbeth second guesses killing Duncan because if justice is just, the poison will kill him too. He has Duncans double trust, Duncan has done nothing to him. The only reason Macbeth wants to kill him is because of his vaulting ambition. lady Macbeth tries to make Macbeth commit to what he had said. She rips into him about backing out on his word. They will kill Duncan in his sleep and make his bodygaurds drunk so they don’t wake, then frame the bodyguards.