Macbeth key scenes

Macbeth key scenes

1. Act 5,S5

   • Lady Macbeth kills herself.
     • Macbeth makes a response saying she should've died later.
       • He comments how meaningless life is.
       • He has no reaction to Lady Macbeth dying.

2. Act 4, Scenes 1

   • The three witches stand around a couldron,Macbeth appears and a head appears from the coldron, the three witches warn Macbeth of Macduff.
     • Next a bloody child appears from the coldron saying Macbeth wont be threatened by anyone born from a woman
       • Macbeth doesnt know that Mcduff wasnt born from a woman as he was born by a c-section
     • A 3rd child appears saying to Macbeth, You will not be defeated, until a forest actually moves up to your castle walls
       • Macbeth does get defeated.

3. Act 1, Scene 3

   • Macbeth and Banquo come across 3 witches
     • The three witches each say one thing that will happen
       • One says: Macbeth is the Thane of Cawdor
         • Another says Macbeth will be king of Scotland
           • The last says Banquos children will be king

4. Act 2, Scene 1

   • "Is this a dagger i see before me?"
     • Macbeth can see a dagger but doesn't know if it is his imagination or if it is real.
       • He was going to kill the sleeping king AKA- Duncan.
       • He was putting his hand out to see if it was real.
         • Macbeth then kills Duncan.
       • The dagger leads him to the sleeping kings room (Duncan).

5. Act 2, Scene 2

   • Lady Macbeth waits for her husband, She would've killed Duncan herself but he looked too much like her father
     • Macbeth arrives bloody and upset
       • Macbeth wont take back the bloody daggers
         • Lady Macbeth takes the two bloody daggers and goes to lay them beside the drugged guards
         • Used to stab Duncan.