Act I
At the end of Act I, Lady Macbeth accuses Macbeth of acting this way as he contemplates killing Duncan
What is a coward?
This is the reason Macbeth decided to kill the guards after killing King Duncan
What is to frame the guards for the murder?
Macbeth saw this at the banquet table and had a full-blown panic attack
What is Banquo's ghost?
Macduff visits this person in an attempt to overthrow Macbeth
Who is Malcolm?
The doctor and gentlewoman observe Lady Macbeth doing these two strange things
What are sleepwalking and confessing to murder?
The witches' prophecy predicts this for Macbeth and Banquo
What are that Macbeth will be Thane of Cawdor/King of Scotland and Banquo's descendants will be king?
After their father is murdered, Donalbain and Malcolm flee to these two countries
What are England and Ireland?
In order to kill Banquo and Fleance, Macbeth hires two of these to do the job (and later a third)
What are two murderers?
One of these characters, noted for having beards, senses that "something wicked this way comes" at the beginning of Act IV
Who are the witches?
Macbeth dies in this manner as an act of angry vengeance by this character
What is beheading?
This is Lady Macbeth's plan to get rid of King Duncan
What is to get the guards drunk so they pass out so Macbeth can kill the king while he sleeps?
This is Lady Macbeth's excuse for not killing Duncan herself when she had the chance
What is that he looked like her father?
Lady Macbeth explains Macbeth's behavior at the banquet in this way
What is that he is often this way?
"my lord is often thus" (3.4.52)
Ross bears this sad news to Macduff
What is that his family has been killed?
He becomes King of Scotland when Macbeth dies
Who is Malcolm?
This person is sentenced to death in Act 1 for committing treason
Who is the (original) Thane of Cawdor?
Lennox and this individual, who famously kills Macbeth in Act V, knocked at the castle gate after the murder
Who is Macduff?
Lennox's opinion of Macbeth begins to change in this way at the end of Act III.
What is that he becomes suspicious?
The King of England offers this to Malcolm and Macduff in their effort to overthrow Macbeth
What are 10,000 men?
Macbeth realizes he has been tricked by the witches and will die when Macduff tells him this piece of information
What is that "Macduff was from his mother's womb untimely ripped"? (5.8.19-20)
Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth: "Look like th' innocent flower, But be THIS under't."
What is a Serpent?
This person discovered Duncan was dead
Who was Macduff?
This character says the following, showing he is past the point of no return:
I am in blood / Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er
Who is Macbeth? (3.4.137-8).
The witches show Macbeth a vision of a bloodied child, which represents this
What is that Macbeth could not be harmed by anyone "of woman born"?
Macbeth dies in Act V, but not before killing this character
Who is Young Siward?
This character says the following lines in Act V:
"The Thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What,/will these hands ne’er be clean?
Who is Lady Macbeth?
(5.1.36-37)