SUMMARISE ACTS

• ACT 1 SCENE 1

  • the witches
  • “Fair is foul and foul is fair, hover through the fog and filthy air”
• ACT 1 SCENE 2

  Macbeth seen as “brave”

  “Unseamed him from the nave to the chaps”
• ACT 1 SCENE 3

  Macbeth and banquo meets the witches

  M : “he seems rapt withal”

  B : “ the instruments of darkness tell us the truths”
• ACT 1 SCENE 4

  Macbeth made thane of Cawdor

  “Stars hide your fire, let not light see my black and deep desires”
• ACT 1 SCENE 5

  • Macbeth sends letter to Lady Macbeth, Lady Macbeth speech on stripping of her feminine qualities and taunts macbeth
  • “O too full o the milk of human kindness “
  • “ unsex me here“

  “look like the innocent flower but be the serpent undert “
• ACT 1 SCENE 7

  Macbeth contemplating wether to kill Duncan weighing out the moral and ethical reasons

  “ vaulting ambition”

  “false face must hide what the false hearth doth know”
• ACT 2 SCENE 1

  hallucination of dagger before killing King- show his guilt to regicide

  “ is this a dagger I see before me “

  “Heat oppressed brain”
• ACT 2 SCENE 2

  After the murder

  “sleep no more !” repetition of sleep

  “Infirm of purpose!”

  “Will all great Neptunes ocean wash the blood clean from my hand?”

  “A little water clears us of this deed”
• ACT 2 SCENE 3

  the porter scene- nature in chaos , discovering of death of Duncan

  “ hell-gate”
• ACT 3 SCENE 1

  Banquo suspects Macbeth on regicide

  “Thou playst most foully for’t”
• ACT 3 SCENE 2

  Macbeth paranoia - trying to secure his kingship by murdering banquet and fleance

  “Fruitless crown “ “ barren sceptre “

  “O full of scorpions is my mind”
• ACT 3 SCENE 4

  Banquos ghost at the banquet

  “Never shake thy gory locks at me”
• ACT 4 SCENE 1

  Macbeth meets the witches again and new prophecies made

  “None of woman born shall harm Macbeth”
• ACT 4 SCENE 2

  Lady Macduff killed while Macduff is in england to prepare for war
• ACT 5 SCENE 1

  Lady Macbeth sleepwalking and mental disorientation

  “Out dammed spot!”

  “ all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”

  “What’s done cannot be undone”
• ACT 5 SCENE 5

  lady Macbeth dies , Macbeth thinks that know life is meaningless

  “ life’s but a walking shadow”
• ACT 5 SCENE 8

  Macbeth admits defeat and killed by Macduff , Malcolm becomes the true king

  “This dead butcher and his fiend like queen”