When shall we three meet again?In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
When the hurly-burly’s done,When the battle’s lost and won.
No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceiveOur bosom interest: go pronounce his present death,65And with his former title greet Macbeth.
For brave Macbeth—well he deserves that name—
So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.
All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!
All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis!
All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!
Two truths are told,
Were such things here as we do speak about?
Three witches wait until the end of the battle to talk with Macbeth.
he prince of Cumberland! That is a stepOn which I must fall down, or else o'erleap,For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires;Let not light see my black and deep desires.
The rest is labor which is not used for you:
Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafterhe prince of Cumberland;
Macbeth and Banquo fought in battles to protect King Duncan. King Duncan of Scotland gives title to Macbeth.
What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature;It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness5To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great,Art not without ambition, but withoutThe illness should attend it.
Come, you spiritsThat tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,And fill me from the crown to the toe top-fullOf direst cruelty.
And chastise with the valor of my tongueThat I may pour my spirits in thine ear
Three witches tell Macbeth and Banquo the prophecies. Banquo questions of the witches are real. Macbeth has seen two of the prophecies being thank of Glamis and Thane of Cawdor come true.
Only look up clear.To alter favor ever is fear.Leave all the rest to me.
This night’s great business into my dispatch,Must be provided for; and you shall putBut be the serpent under ’t. He that’s coming
Duncan announced his son Malcolm will become King. Macbeth realizes in order to become King he is going to have to give up on the idea or deal with Malcolm. Macbeth is telling the King he lives to serve him.
Conduct me to mine host. We love him highly. And shall continue our graces towards him .
Your servants everHave theirs, themselves, and what is theirs in compt.To make their audit at your highness' pleasure, Still to return your own.
Lady Macbeth reading a letter from Macbeth explaining the 3 prophecies from the witches. Lady Macbeth doesn't think Macbeth has what it takes to be King. Macbeth wants to help Macbeth become King. She is preparing herself to more like a man willing to commit murder.
Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life,And live a coward in thine own esteem,Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," like the poor cat i' th' adage?
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are preparing to kill King Duncan while the King is staying at MacBeth's residence. Lady Macbeth is pumping Macbeth up to commit the murder
"When Duncan is asleep-...soundly invite him-his two chamberlainsWill I with Wine and wassail so convince... What cannot you and I perform upon the unguarded Duncan?"
King Duncan is expressing his affection toward Macbeth to his wife Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is making effort to show she respects and is loyal to the King even though the plan is for Macbeth to murder the King.
Lady Macbeth is challenging Macbeth because Macbeth is having second thoughts about committing the murder. Lady Macbeth is shaming Macbeth.
Please, stop! I dare to do only what is proper for a man to do. He who dares to do more is not a man at all.
Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth the plan on how the murder will take place.
"when we have marked in blood those sleepy twoOf his own chamber and used their very daggers That they have done 't?"
"The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.s this a dagger which I see before me,I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. A dagger of the mind, a false creation. Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?"
Infirm of purpose!Give me the daggers.
I’ll go no more:I am afraid to think what I have done;Look on ’t again I dare not.
ACT 2: Macbeth is unsure if the dagger is real.
Oh, yet I do repent me of my fury,That I did kill them.
O Banquo, Banquo,Our royal master’s murdered!
Macbeth killed King Duncan and two chamberlain
"The nearer bloody.There’s daggers in men’s smiles. The near in blood,"
Macbeth hears a voice naming him as the murder. He forgot to but the daggers by the chamberlains but can not go back in there. Lady Macbeth is belittling Macbeth and making plan to put the daggers by the chamberlains by herself.
"Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,As the weird women promised, and I fearThou played’st most foully for ’t. Yet it was saidIt should not stand in thy posterity,5But that myself should be the root and fatherOf many kings. f there come truth from them—As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine—Why, by the verities on thee made ood,May they not be my oracles as well,10And set me up in hope? But hush, no more."
Macduff letting know Banquo has been murdered. Lady Macbeth fainted to show she was shocked by the news. Macbeth telling everyone out of his anger he killed the chamberlains.
"Reigns that which would be feared. 'Tis much he dares,Stick deep, and in his royalty of natureBut to be safely thus. Our fears in BanquoTo be thus is nothing,"
King's sons Malcolm and Donalbain escape to avoid inquiry they were responsible for the death. Macbeth is made King.
That I require a clearness. And with him—To leave no rubs nor botches in the work—Fleance, his son, that keeps him company,Whose absence is no less material to meThan is his father’s, must embrace the fateOf that dark hour.
ACT 3: Banquo acknowledged the 3 prophecies from the witches came true for Macbeth. Banquo is suspicious Macbeth cheated to get the titles. Banquo remembers the witches prophecy of his descendants that will be King.
In the affliction of these terrible dreamsThat shake us nightly. Better be with the dead,Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,
Macbeth thinks he has murdered Duncan and tortured himself for Banquo's sons. The witch said the son's of Banquo will be King. Macbeth is scared of Banquo because he is noble and brave
"For them the gracious Duncan have I murdered;For Banquo’s issue have I filed my mind;No son of mine succeeding. If ’t be so,Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand,"
"There is none but heWhose being I do fear, and under himMy genius is rebuked,"
Macbeth hires two people to murder Banquo and his son Fleance
We are resolved, my lord.
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are conflicted over what they have done and are planing to do to remain King.
Naught’s had, all’s spent,Where our desire is got without content.'Tis safer to be that which we destroyThan by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.
The fit is momentary; upon a thoughtHe will again be well.
O proper stuff!This is the very painting of your fear.
(to GHOST) Thou canst not say I did it. Never shakeThy gory locks at me.
how did you dareTo trade and traffic with Macbeth5In riddles and affairs of death,And I, the mistress of your charms,The close contriver of all harms,Was never called to bear my part,Or show the glory of our art?
Banquo is dead. Fleance escapes.
Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scornThe power of man, for none of woman bornShall harm Macbeth.
Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff.Beware the thane of Fife.
Macbeth addresses Banquo's ghost telling the ghost Macbeth didn't kill him. Lady Macbeth tries to cover up in front of the guests and belittles's Macbeth to pull it together.
He has killed me, mother.Run away, I pray you!
Hectate telling the witches he is angry for the witches telling Macbeth prophecies without him present. Hectate is upset how Macbeth has handled the prophecies.
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.
ACT 4: Macbeth returns to the witches and receives 3 apparitions.
Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care95Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are.Macbeth shall never vanquished be untilGreat Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane HillShall come against him.
Murderers kill Macbeth's son.
Malcolm and Macduff plot to kill Macbeth.
Not in the legionsOf horrid hell can come a devil more damnedIn evils to top Macbeth.
Malcolm explaining to Macduff he would not be a good King.
It is myself I mean, in whom I knowAll the particulars of vice so graftedThat, when they shall be opened, black MacbethWill seem as pure as snow, and the poor state55Esteem him as a lamb, being comparedWith my confineless harms.
Malcolm finds out from Ross his wife and children have been murdered. Malcolm making plans to fight Macbeth.
And I must be from thence!My wife killed too?
Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself.Within my sword’s length set him; if he ’scape,Heaven forgive him too.
I have said.
ACT 5: Lady Macbeth is telling secrets in front of the doctor.
Out, damned spot! Out, I say!—One, two. Why, then, ’tis time to do ’t. Hell is murky!—Fie, my lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?—Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.
“a tale a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing”
Lady Macbeth Kills herself before the final battle.
Macbeth decides to fight the final battle because he believes he is invincible, given the witch's prophecy.
Macduff was born by C-section so he is able to kill Macbeth.