Characters
This character sleepwalks in Act IV
Lady Macbeth
"All my pretty chickens and their dam in one fell swoop?"
Macduff
The is Macbeth's location as he waits for Macduff and Malcolm
Dunsinane
Lady Macbeth's death by suicide AND Macbeth's hallucination of Banquo
Guilt/guilty conscious
This is the first apparition that Macbeth sees in act 4
A head with armor
This character is killed along with her children and servants
Lady Macduff
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more"
Macbeth
This is the name of the forest that is to come to Macbeth
Birnam Wood
Macbeth has lost everything and killed his friends to be king
What is ambition/greed
This is the 1st prophecy that Macbeth is told in Act 4
"No one born of woman can harm Macbeth"
This character becomes the new King of Scotland
Malcolm
"The Thane of Fife had a wife, where is she now? What? Will these hands n'er be clean?"
Lady Macbeth
Macbeth kills this person when his castle is first invaded
Multiple wars happening at the same time that Macbeth is becoming king
Political conflict/violence/unrest
This is the 2nd apparition that Macbeth sees in act IV
A bloody child
This character goes to English to convince Malcolm to become King of Scotland
Macduff
"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes"
The Three Witches
Lady Macduff was angry with Macduff for this reason
He left her and their children unprotected while he went to England
Shakespeare's use of the prophecies to further the plot events
Supernatural/religion
This is the final *bonus* vision that Macbeth is shown
What is eight kings with banquo
This character tells Macduff that his wife and children are dead.
Ross
"Do we but find the tyrant"s power tonight, let us be beaten if we cannot fight"
Siward
What does Malcolm try to test by lying to Macduff
His loyalty and honesty
Macbeth becomes more "masculine" and Lady Macbeth becomes more "feminine" as the play ends
Gender expectations
How do the prophecies turn out in the end?
The soldiers carry tree branches, so they look like Birnam wood marching
Macduff was born via C-section so he wasn't technically "born of a woman"
Macduff kills Macbeth