ACT 1

ACT 1 SCENE 1

• Dark stormy night
• Three witches meet
• Plan to meet Macbeth
• Decide on the Heath.

SCENE 2

• The Scottish army is at war with the Norwegian army.
• Duncan, king of Scotland, meets a captain returning from battle.
• Thane of Cawdor has sided with Norway
• Duncan decides to execute the disloyal thane and give the title of Cawdor to Macbeth.

SCENE 3

• The Witches meet on the heath and wait for Macbeth.
• The witches hail him
• the witches vanish into thin air.
• Ross and Angus appear with the news

SCENE 4

• Duncan demands to know whether the former Thane of Cawdor has been executed.
• His son Malcolm assures him he witnessed the Thane’s death
• He announces his decision to make Malcolm the heir to the throne of Scotland
• Duncan then states that he plans to visit Macbeth at his home.
• Macbeth heads home to prepare.

SCENE 5

• Lady Macbeth reads a letter from Macbeth
• He explains his encounter with the witches
• She then implores him to hurry home so that she can convince to perform the murder he must commit
• a messenger arrives with the news that Duncan is coming
• Lady Macbeth calls on the heavenly powers
• Macbeth arrives
• She preps dinner and the Kings death.

SCENE 6

• Duncan arrives Inverness with Banquo
• The king ask for Macbeth's whereabouts.
• She offers to bring him to where Macbeth awaits.

SCENE 7

• Macbeth agonizes over whether to kill Duncan
• He struggles in particular with the idea of murdering a man
• Macbeth tells his wife that he "will proceed no further in this business."
• She taunts him
• She advised a plan
• Macbeth is astonished by her cruelty but resigns to follow through with her plans.

QUOTE ANALYSIS

• "fair is foul and foul is fair" three witches
• Everything we delight in is evil to other beings and vise versa
• So foul and fair a day I have not seen
• The day is foul due to the witches raising a storm, and fair because of Macbeth's victories on the battlefield.
• too full o' th' milk of human kindness
• too kind by nature to do what needs to be done