Plot
Lady Macbeth is overwhelmed with tremendous guilt which is seen when she sleepwalks.
What is Lady Macbeth’s real emotional state after most of Macbeth’s prophecies have been fulfilled?
Macbeth's wife.
Who is Lady Macbeth?
Someone haunts Macbeth during a big dinner at his estate.
Who is the ghost of Banquo?
This theme in Macbeth is seen through the witches prophecies and Macbeth’s decision to act on them rather than let events unfold naturally.
What is free will against fate?
The Three Witches tell Macbeth his future throught prophecies.
What circumstance made Macbeth hungry for power?
These supernatural beings tell Macbeth that no man “born of a woman” can harm him.
What do the Three Witches tell Macbeth when he visits them again?
Banquo's son.
Who is Fleance?
Macbeth sees a floating dagger before he is about to commit the murderous act towards king Duncan.
What is Macbeth's supernatural vision?
This theme in Macbeth shows how gaining power causes Macbeth to become more violent and corrupt.
What is power leads to corruption?
Macbeth didn’t want to go on with the plan to kill King Duncan because of his inner conflict and moral consciousness.
Why did Lady Macbeth say Macbeth wasn’t acting like a man?
This concept in Macbeth shows the difference between Shakespeare’s traditional expectations of men and women with characters like Lady Macbeth, who rejects femininity, and Macbeth, who associates masculinity with violence.
How are gender roles in Macbeth diffrent from how they would have been in Shakespearean society?
Thane of Glamis.
Who is Macbeth?
These are beings who foretold Macbeth's future.
Who are the three whitches?
This major theme in Macbeth is shown through bloody hallucinations, obsessive hand-washing, and the process of going into madness of both Macbeth and his wife.
What is guilt?
Macbeth hears that Lady Macbeth has died.
What does Seyton inform Macbeth?
Macbeth wanted power and control and to fulfill his prophecy.
Why did Macbeth kill King Duncan?
King Duncan's youngest son.
Who is Donalbain?
This is a superntural being shaped as a bloody child and tells Macbeth "Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth."
Who is the second apparition?
This theme in Macbeth shows that characters often hide their true intentions, and things are not always what they seem.
What is appearance vs reality?
King Duncan was glorifying Macbeth after his courageous acts in war, letting nothing get in his way, yet later we discover all this is not true. Lady Macbeth, his wife, explains that he does not have the mental capacity to fulfill what needs to be done to obtain what he wants.
How was Macbeth's first description very diffrent from how his wife protrayed him later on?
Macduff wanted to persuade Malcolm to take back the throne of Scotland, and to rally support against Macbeth.
Why did Macduff leave Scotland for England?
A thane and loyal to to king duncan, representing the theme of loyalty.
Who is Angus?
A supernatural being shaped as a child crowned, with a tree in his hand and tells Macbeth "Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no cre who chafesm who frets, or where conspiers are. Macbeth shall never vanquished be until great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him."
Who is the third apparition?
The disruption of sleep is seen as a sign of moral corruption.
What does Lady Macbeth's sleep walking portray?
Young Siward gets slain because thought he was superior.
Who does Macbeth slay in a challenge?