macbeth scene summaries
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| ACT I SCENE I | show 🗑
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| show | - macbeth is established as valiant
- two battle reports: Thane of Cawdor has been captured (traitorous acts), Norweyan King (Sweno) has been killed
- Duncan orders for the Thane of Cawdor to be executed --> Macbeth is now Thane of Fife
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| show | - Weird Sisters meet again, Macbeth exclaims, "So foul and fair a day I have not seen."
- Three Witches' prophecies: Macbeth will be Thane of Cawdor, King; Banquo will be father of line of kings
- Ross + Angus tell Macbeth that he is now Cawdor Thane
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| ACT I SCENE IV | show 🗑
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| ACT I SCENE V | show 🗑
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| ACT I SCENE VI | show 🗑
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| show | - Macbeth is conflicted, decides not to kill
- Lady Macbeth chides him for lack of manliness
- Convinces that guards will appear guilty
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| show | - Lady Macbeth learns that Macbeth has completed the deed, forgotten to elave bloody daggers
- Lady Macbeth places daggers, hears knocking ("I hear a knocking at the south entry. Retire we to our chamber."
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| show | - Old Man and Ross discuss horrifying events of night before
- Malcolm and Donalbain are suspected of hiring two guards to kill Duncan
- Ross goes to crowning ceremony; Macduff returns to Fife
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| show | - Lady Macbeth acknowledges that she is not fully happy as Queen ("Where our desire is got without content.")
- Macbeth is also without peace of mind, but because of Banquo
- Macbeth convinces Lady to put on vizard of happiness
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| ACI III SCENE III | show 🗑
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| ACT III SCENE IV | show 🗑
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| ACT III SCENE V | show 🗑
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| ACT III SCENE VI | show 🗑
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| ACT IV SCENE I | show 🗑
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| ACT IV SCENE II | show 🗑
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| show | - Banquo understands that Macbeth has "playd'st most foully" for King, but hopes that his prophecy will come true
- Macbeth learns that Banquo and Fleance are going riding, asks to come to ceremony
- Two murderers are hired to kill Banquo, Fleance
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| show | - Lady Macbeth acknowledges that she is not fully happy as Queen ("Where our desire is got without content.")
- Macbeth is also without peace of mind, but because of Banquo
- Macbeth convinces Lady to put on vizard of happiness
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| show | - Lines 34-37
- Ghost of Banquo appears, Macbeth loses composure, Lady Macbeth asks guests to leave
- Macbeth wants to visit Witches again ("I will tomorrow (and betimes I will) to the Weird SIsters.")
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| ACT III SCENE VI | show 🗑
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| show | - Weird Sisters prepare a spell, when Macbeth demands information (three apparitions appear, refer to scene questions bc im lazy)
- Lennox reports that Macduff has fled to England, Macbeth wants to kill Macduff + relations
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| show | - Ross and Lady Macduff discuss Macbeth (Ross in defense, Lady about to self-defenestrate!)
- Son is killed after witty back-and-forth
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| ACT IV SCENE III | show 🗑
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| ACT V SCENE I | show 🗑
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| show | - Scottish Army approaching Birnam Wood (Malcolm, Siward as leaders)
- Angus states that those serving Macbeth do so out of fear, NOT LOYALTY
- Malcolm characterizied as "medicine of the sickly weal" (32)
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| ACT V SCENE III | show 🗑
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| show | - Malcolm tells soldiers to cut trees, and cover themselves with it so that "discovey; Err in report of us" (8-9)
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| show | - Malcolm et al. have reached Macbeth's castle
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| ACT V SCENE VII(I) | show 🗑
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| LIFE IN AV.SVII(I) | show 🗑
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