Title: MACBETH
1MACBETH
2THE SETTING
- SCOTLAND
- 1100 A.D.
- SCOTLAND IS DIVIDED INTO SECTIONS OF LAND
3Characters
- Duncan is the king
- EACH SECTION OWNED BY A THANE
- Map of Macbeth's Scotland
4Characterscont.
- Characters are called Thane of Glamis or
Glamis as well as their names (Macbeth) - Banquo (Macbeths friend)
- Ross and Angus (just guys)
- Malcolm and Donalbain (sons of Duncan princes)
- WITCHES!
5The PLOT
- Witches! Plan to meet with Macbeth
- Battlefield
- Soldier tells of the battle
- Macbeth was brave!
- Cawdor was a traitor!
- King decides to have Cawdor executed and give
Thane of Cawdor to Macbeth
6The PLOT
- Before Macbeth gets word of his new title
- MEETS THE WITCHES!
- Prophecies for Macbeth
- Thane of Glamis!
- Thane of Cawdor!
- King hereafter!
- Prophecies for Banquo
- Lesser than Macbeth and greater
- Not so happy, yet much happier
- Shall beget kings, though not be king
7The PLOT cont.
- Witches vanish!
- Banquo and Macbeth laugh it off
- Kings men announce
- Macbeth is the new Thane of Cawdor!
- Macbeth starts to think he might also become king!
8Wednesday April 29ACT I, scene iv-v
- Scene iv opens at Forres, King Duncans castle.
- Duncan and Malcolm discuss the execution of the
Thane of Cawdor. - Macbeth and Banquo enter
- Duncan tells Macbeth he has plans for him!
- Duncan announces that Malcolm (Prince of
Cumberland) will be next in line to be king - Duncan says he will now visit Macbeth at Inverness
9Act I, scene v
- Scene v opens at Inverness, Macbeths castle
- Lady Macbeth reads a letter from Macbeth
10Lady Macbeth reads the letter
- It tells of the witches!
- Lady thinks
- Macbeth is Glamis!
- Macbeth is Cawdor!
- Hes going to be KING!
- But Im afraid he is not MAN enough to make it
happen! - Lady decides she will persuade Macbeth to take
action!
11A messenger arrives!
- And says The king will stay here tonight
- Lady Macbeth can hardly believe her ears!
- She then delivers a soliloquy
- Come, Spirits!
- Take away my womanliness
- Fill me with cruelty!
- Come, Thick Night!
- Cover my dark deeds!
- Dont let the heavens see what we are about to
do!
12Enters Macbeth!
- Lady Macbeth greets him by calling him
- Glamis! Cawdor! King hereafter!
- They talk of Duncans plans to spend the night.
- Lady says
- Lets kill him!
- Look innocent!
- Leave it all to me!
13Thursday April 30Scene vi Front of Macbeths
Castle
- King Duncan (and others) arrive
- Lady greets him
- Macbeth is not around(off feeling guilty)
14Scene vii A room in Macbeths castle
- Macbeths soliloquy
- I wish we could get this over with quickly!
- But what if one bad deed (killing Duncan) leads
to more? - Duncan is my guest and my king! I mustnt do
this! - I dont have the guts to do this!
- Only vaulting ambition
15Lady Macbeth comes in and says
- Where have you BEEN!?
- Macbeth says he doesnt want to go through with
the plan - Ive just been honored!
- Lady taunts him
- You have the desire to be king but no guts to
make it happen! - You are not a REAL MAN!
16Macbeth defends himself!
- I am too a man!
- Lady
- But you would be MORE the man if you killed
Duncan! - You are killing this baby (killing the plan
before it grows to result) - Macbeth
- But what if we FAIL?
17Lady lays out the murder plan
- When King Duncan is asleep
- Ill get the guards drunk
- Then you can sneak in and kill Duncan!
- Then well blame the killing on the guards!
- Macbeth says
- You should only have sons, never daughters
- Because you are made of such nasty, tough stuff!
- All right lets do it.
18ACT II
- Scene Macbeths castle
- Banquo and his son Fleance
- Talk of how dark the night is
19Macbeth enters
- Banquo says
- I dreamed about the Weird Sisters (witches)
- Macbeth says
- I dont think about them
- But now that you mentioned it
- It will benefit you to be loyal to me
20Banquo and Fleance exit
- Macbeth sees a bloody dagger!
- Macbeths soliloquy!
- Is this a dagger?
- I can see youbut not touch you!
- This is just like the dagger Im going to use to
kill Duncan! - Its leading me to his bedchamber!
- Oh dark worldhear not what is about to happen
21Macbeth is still talking
- Too many words cools off my courage to do the
deed! - A bell sounds! Its the signal from Lady that
everything is ready! - Macbeth says it is Duncans funeral knell.
22Scene ii Still in the castle
- Lady Macbeth
- The liquor has made her feel bold!
- A hoot from an owl!
- A cry from Macbeth!
- Lady
- Has he messed up the plan?
- I had everything ready for him!
- In fact, I would have done it myself if he hadnt
looked like my father!
23Enters Macbethlooking dazed and bloody
- Macbeth
- I did it.
- Oh look at the mess on my hands
- The guards cried out in their sleep!
- I thought I heard a voice Sleep no more! Macbeth
has murdered the innocence of sleep! - Lady
- Knock it off!
24- Lady
- Youre talking crazy
- Go wash your hands
- WAIT! WHY DO YOU STILL HAVE THE DAGGERS?
- You were supposed to leave them with the guards!
- Macbeth
- I cant go back in there again!
- I wont!
- Lady
- Then ILL do it! (You sissy!)
25While Lady is taking the daggers into the guards
chambers
- Macbeth
- Wonders if hell ever be able to wash the blood
off his hands - Lady returns
- Look! My hands are red like yours
- But Id be ashamed to have a white heart (fear)
like yours!
26Knocking at the gate
- Lady
- Quickly! Wash our hands!
- Get into your nightclothes!
- MORE KNOCKING!
- Macbeth
- I wish the knocking could wake up Duncan!
27Act II, Scene iii - Porter
- Porter answers the gate
- Macduff and Lenox arrive
- Lennox The night has been unruly
- Macbeth Twas a rough night.
- Macduff O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor
heart - Cannot conceive nor name thee!
28Murder discovery
- Macduff says to Lady Macbeth
- O gentle lady,
- 'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak
- The repetition, in a woman's ear,
- Would murder as it fell.
29Macbeth says to Donalbain and Malcolm
- The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood
- Is stopp'd the very source of it is stopp'd.
30When Macbeth says he killed the guards (in fury)
- Macduff asks Wherefore did you so?
- Macbeth replies Who can be wise, amazed,
temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a
moment?
31The thanes plan to meet in the hall to decide
what to do!
- But Malcolm says to Donalbain
- What will you do? Let's not consort with them
To show an unfelt sorrow is an office - Which the false man does easy. I'll to England.
32Malcolm and Donalbain decide to leave
- Donalbain says To Ireland, I our separated
fortune - Shall keep us both the safer where we are,
- There's daggers in men's smiles the near in
blood, - The nearer bloody.
33Act II, Scene iv outside Macbeths castle
- Ross and Old Man Strange things have been
happening! - Here comes Macduff!
- Ross Who killed the king?
- Macduff They say the chamberlains did it.
- Ross Why?
34Macduff is suspicious
- They were suborn'd
- Malcolm and Donalbain, the king's two sons,
- Are stol'n away and fled which puts upon them
- Suspicion of the deed.
35Macbeth shall be king!
- Ross Then 'tis most like
- The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth.
- Macduff He is already named, and gone to Scone
To be invested.
36- Ross Will you to Scone?
- Macduff No, cousin. Ill to Fife.
- Ross says hes going to Scone to see Macbeth
crowned. - Macduff says may you see things well done
there adieu! - Lest our old robes sit easier than our new!
- ---END OF ACT II---
37ACT IIISecne i
- Banquo begins to suspect Macbeth!
- Thou hast it now king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,
- As the weird women promised, and, I fear,
- Thou play'dst most foully for't.
38Macbeth talks to Banquo
- Macbeth Heres our chief guest!...Supper
tonight? - M Ride you this afternoon?
- M Ist far you ride?
- We hear, our bloody cousins are bestow'd
- In England and in Ireland, not confessing
- Their cruel parricide
- M Goes Fleance with you?
39Macbeth hires murderers
- M To be thus is nothing But to be safely thus.
- MOur fears in Banquo stick deep
- M (talking about Banquo) He bade them speak to
him then prophet-like - They hail'd him father to a line of kings
- Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,
- And put a barren sceptre in my gripe
40Macbeth is still thinking
- M For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind
- For them the gracious Duncan have I murder'd
41Macbeth talks to the murderers
- Remember how we talked yesterday?
- Remember how I explained that your suffering and
low position are BANQUOs fault? - We are men, my liege.
- Yes, you are men just as curs and mongrels are
also called dogs. (In other words, you are a
miserable excuse for men.)
42Murders agree to kill Banquo
- Murderers say that their lives are miserable and
worth risking to make better - Macbeth I could just have him killed myself, but
he and I have mutual friends who wouldnt
understand - Macbeth Within this hour at most
- I will advise you where to plant yourselves
43And Fleance, too
- To leave no blotches in the work, kill Fleance
too. - Macbeth It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul's
flight, If it find heaven, must find it out
to-night.
44Act III, Scene ii
- Lady Macbeth is also unsettled
- Nought's had, all's spent, Where our desire is
got without content - Macbeth enters. Lady says
- Things without all remedy
- Should be without regard what's done is done
- Macbeth says We have scotch'd the snake, not
kill'd it
45Macbeth is unhappy
- better be with the dead,
- Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,
- Than on the torture of the mind to lie
- In restless ecstasy.
46Macbeth tells Lady to be a good hostess
- O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!
- Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance,
lives. - ere the bat hath flown
- His cloister'd flightthere shall be done
- A deed of dreadful note.
47Act III, scene iii
- Murderers await Banquo and Fleance
- Banquo There will be rain tonight.
- Murderers Let it come down!
- Banquo Fly, Fleance, Fly!
48Act III, scene iv THE BANQUET!
- At the beginning of the scene, the murderer tells
Macbeth of killing Banquo (twenty trenched
gashes on his head) - When Macbeth learns that Fleance got away, he
says There the grown serpent lies. The worm
that's fled Hath nature that in time will venom
breed No teeth for th' present
49Banquet continues
- Macbeth tells everyone to sit down
- Here had we now our country's honor roofed,
- Were the graced person of our Banquo present,
- Who may I rather challenge for unkindness
- Than pity for mischance.
50Banquet
- Macbeth cant find a place to sit down because he
sees someone sitting in his chair - Everyone at the banquet sees an empty chair, but
Macbeth sees
51Banquos bloody ghost!
52Macbeth says incriminating things!
- Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake
- Thy gory locks at me.
- Lady tries to calm everyone
53Lady tries to calm the guests
- Sit, worthy friends. My lord is often thus
- And hath been from his youth. Pray you, keep
seat. - The fit is momentary upon a thought
- He will again be well. If much you note him,
- You shall offend him and extend his passion.
- Feed and regard him not.
54Lady to Macbeth (aside)
- ARE YOU A MAN?!
- Macbeth says Ay, and a bold one, that dare look
on that - Which might appall the devil.
- Lady This is the very painting of your fear.
- This is the air-drawn dagger which you said
- Led you to Duncan
55Listen to Lady chastise Macbeth!
- These flaws and starts,
- Impostors to true fear, would well become
- A woman's story at a winter's fire,
- Authorized by her grandam. Shame itself!
- Why do you make such faces? When all's done,
- You look but on a stool.
56Macbeth says to Lady
- The time has been
- That, when the brains were out, the man would
die, - And there an end. But now they rise again
- With twenty mortal murders on their crowns
- And push us from our stools.
57They return to the banquet--
- Macbeth to his guests
- Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends.
- I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing
- To those that know me. Come, love and health to
all. - Then I'll sit down. Give me some wine. Fill full.
58Macbeth offers a toast to Banquo (whom we miss)
- Macbeth sees Banquo again!
- Screams Avaunt, and quit my sight! Let the
earth hide thee. - Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold.
59Lady tries one more time to calm everyone down--
- Think of this, good peers,
- But as a thing of custom. 'Tis no other
- Only it spoils the pleasure of the time.
60Macbeth says (to the ghost)
- I am as brave as any other man. Come at me in the
form of a rugged Russian bear, an armor-plated
rhinoceros, or a tiger from Iran. Take any shape
other than the one you have now and I will never
tremble in fear. Or come back to life again and
challenge me to a duel in some deserted place. If
I tremble then, you can call me a little girl.
Get out of here, you horrible ghost, you
hallucination. Get out!
61The ghost leaves
- Macbeth says Why so, being gone,
- I am a man again. Pray you sit still.
- But Macbeths strange behavior has ruined the
party. - Lady says You have displaced the mirth, broke
the good meeting, - With most admired disorder.
62Macbeth asks the guests how they can stay calm
while looking at such things?
- They ask What things?
- Lady interrupts Dont ask him questions!
- Leave! Partys over!
- Stand not upon the order of your going,
- But go at once.
63Miserable Macbeth talks to Lady
- It will have blood, they say. Blood will have
blood. (dead will get revenge) - Why do you think Macduff doesnt come to my
parties? - Macbeth keeps a servant fed in each of his
thanes houses - Macbeth says he will go see the weird sisters in
the morning.
64Macbeths most famous line
- I am in blood
- Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more,
- Returning were as tedious as go o'er.
65Lady says
- You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
66Act III, scene iii
- SKIP THIS SCENE OF HECATE
67Act III, scene iv (not on tape)
- Lennox and lord talk of suspicions of Macbeth
- Weve said that Duncans sons must have killed
himif were going to use that standard, it must
be that Fleance killed Banquo - I heard that Macduff is on Macbeths bad side for
not attending the banquet Do you know where he
is? - To England to join up with Malcolm!
68ACT IV, scene IWITCHES!
- Brew! (read together)
- By the pricking of my thumbs,
- Something wicked this way comes.
- Open, locks,
- Whoever knocks!
691st Apparition (Armored Head)
- 1 Beware Macduff! Beware the Thane of Fife!
- M HmmmI was already worried about Macduff.
702nd Apparition (Bloody child)
- none of woman born
- Shall harm Macbeth
- Ha! Then I dont need to worry about
Macduffstill, Ill make extra sure and have him
killed.
713rd Apparition (Crowned child holding a tree)
- Macbeth will not be defeated until
- Birnam Wood comes to
- Dunsinane Hill
- Great! That will never happen! But tell me one
more thing Shall Banquo's issue ever - Reign in this kingdom?
72Witches warn Macbeth Seek to know no more!
73SHOW OF KINGS
- 8 kings, all looking like Banquothe last is
holding a mirror. - When he holds up the mirror, it reflects more,
more, more kings - Banquo smiles upon Macbeth
- And points at them for his.
74Witches vanish Lennox enters
- Macbeth wonders if anyone else saw the weird
sisters - Lennox Nope. We just came to tell you that
Macduff has fled to England!
75Macbeth reacts to this news
- The very firstlings of my heart shall be
- The firstlings of my hand.
- The castle of Macduff I will surprise,
- Seize upon Fife, give to th' edge o' th' sword
- His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls
- That trace him in his line.
76Act IV, scene ii Macduffs castle
- Ross tells Lady Macduff that her husband has gone
to England - Lady Macduff is distressed
- Why did he leave us here?
- Even the small wren will fight against the owl if
her babies are in peril
77Lady Macduff talks to her child
- Note bird imagery
- Boy says clever things
78Messenger runs in Dont be found here!
- Murderers come in and ask where Macduff is.
- Lady Macduff says
- I hope, in no place so unsanctified
- Where such as thou mayst find him.
79Act IV, scene iii
- England Malcolm and Macduff discuss the
condition of Scotland. - Malcolm tries to determine if Macduff is honestly
trying to help Scotland or just spying for
Macbeth.
80Ross arrives with heavy news
- Ross tells Macduff that his family has been
killed. - Macduff will avenge his familys deaths, but
first he must feel it as a man. - The men are incited for battle.