Plot

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• King Duncan receives news that his generals, Macbeth and Banquo, have defeated two separate invading armies.
• Banquo and Macbeth encounter three witches who prophesy Macbeth that he will be thane and eventually King of Scotland, and Banquo that he will beget a line of King, but he will never be King himself.
• Macbeth organizes a dinner with King Duncan in his castle; Lady Macbeth persuades his husband to kill him to become King.

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• Macbeth murders King Duncan and his chamberlains during the night and becomes the new King. At the same time Duncan's sons flee to England and Ireland, fearing that whoever killed their father desires their death.
• Being scared of the prophecy of Banquo, Macbeth decides to kill him and his son Fleance, who survives.
• Macbeth returns to the three witches. They give him a new prophecy: he will be invincible until the coming of a man not born of woman, and until Birnam Wood will come to his home.

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• Malcolm, Macduff and the Scottish nobles start the invasion of Scotland. At the same time lady Macbeth, totally mad, kills herself.
• Macbeth discovers that Macduff was born by a cesarean section, and that the enemy army was shielded with boughs cut from Birnam Wood.
• Macduff kills Macbeth and Malcolm became the new King.

Themes

Ambition

Th destruction wrought when ambition goes unchecked by moral constraints
Ambition is in everyone but it could be dominate

Masculinity

Lady Macbeth manipulate his husband by questioning his masculinity .
Whenever they converse about manhood violence soon follow
Woman are the sources of the evil action

Blood

Blood symbolise the guilt that sits like a permanent stay on the coscience of both Macbeth

Main characters

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• Macbeth
• Lady Macbeth
• Three witches
• King Duncan
• McDuff
• Malcolm
• Banquo

Macbeth
- Our first impression is of a brave and capable warrior
- Bravery, ambition, and self-doubt
- He can be see as irrevocably evil but at the same time he has a weak character

Lady Macbeth
- Strongnger, more ruthless, and more ambitious than her husband.
- Female methods of achieving power
- She begins a slow slide into madness

The three witches
- Prophets who early in the play prophesy Macbeth ascent to king.
- The mischief is the result of their understanding of the weaknesses of their interlocutors
- Caricatures of the supernatural
- Is left to ask whether are independent agents toying with human lives, or agents of fate

The Exerpt

Green: meaning of the night

Blue: Lady Macbeth's self-confidence

Yellow: Macbeth's regret

Purple: blood and water

Meaning of the night:


Usually the night has a good connotation, but the terrible and evil did of Macbeth kills all of this. Nobody will be able to sleep anymore.
The night now isn't an innocent place and time, but is the hiding place of murder.
Is it a lucky circostamce that the murder was committed during the night?

Lady Macbeth's self-confidence

Lady Macbeth in her madness is convince to be rational, she is completely detached from her cotience. She have to look calm because she have to guide his husband.
Can she truly listen to her rational mind

Macbeth's regret

Macbeth can't think about what he did because he can't forgive himself, and he thinks nobody can.
He was aware about what was doing?

Dichotomy: Blood and water

Water have to purificate the murder, but while lady Macbeth is convince that just few gocce will be needed, from Macbeth's point of view the huge ocean won't be enough.
How terrible is this murder?

Writing style

Noble characters: iambic pentameter ("iamb" is an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, they are 5 per line), or blank verse (no regular rhyme scheme)
Witches: "trochaic tetrameter" (trochee: an accented syllable followed by an unaccented one, they are four per line)

Commoners: prose

Personal part

"The Abby in the Oakwood" by Caspar Friedrich