Act 3
This convinces Macbeth that Banquo and his son must die. 🗡️ 🗡️ 🗡️ 🗡️ 🗡️ 🗡️ 🗡️ 🗡️ 🗡️ 🗡️ 🗡️ 🗡️ 🗡️ 🗡️
What is the witches' prophecy?
First apparition. 🗣️
This is what happens when Lady Macbeth sleepwalks. 🩸 🩸 🩸
What is Lady Macbeth being consumed by the guilt and feeling that the blood won't wash away? What is her descent into madness? "Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him"
This is Lady Macbeth's response to Macbeth's outburst at the coronation. 👑 👑 👑
What is frustrating, condescending, and dismissive? She also sends him out of the room so he does not embarrass them further during the coronation.
Second Apparition. 👶
What is a blood child? This child tells Macbeth that he cannot be harmed by anyone woman-born. This gives him a false sense of confidence that makes him more reckless.
This is the third apparition's warning is subverted by the soldiers. 🥦
What is cutting small pieces of the trees to disguise them as bushes as they slowly approach Dunsinane?
This is the thing that Macbeth cannot wash from his hands. 🧼👏 🧼👏 🧼👏
What is blood? The blood is a symbol of his guilt that he realizes he cannot get away from, so instead he embraces it and becomes more ambitious.
Third Apparition. 🎄
What is a crowned child with a small tree? This child tells Macbeth that he is safe until the Birnam Wood moves to Dunsinane Hill. Macbeth becomes more reckless because how would trees even move?
This is the conclusion to Lady Macbeth's outburst. 🔪 🔪 🔪
What is Lady Macbeth's suicide (read: husband). "Life is but a walking shadow."
Why is Macbeth so frustrated with the apparitions he sees? 👻 👻 👻
Macbeth is angry that he is having such a violent response to his guilt because other people have done much worse than him and he feels that he is owed peace.
This is the result of Macbeth's assassination attempt on Macduff. 🍳 🍳 🍳 🍳 🍳
This is why Macduff was able to kill Macbeth. 👼 👼 👼
Why was Macduff ripped from his mother's womb? C-section babies aren't people. Macbeth lost his head.