Act 1-Macbeth and Banquo win a battle against the Norwegians and were heading back to the castle. On their way, they encountered three witches

-the witches predict the future saying that Macbeth will become thane and then king of Scotland! Banquo asks to have his future foretold as well. The witches say that his son will become royalty. the witches then vanish.

-soon after, a message from the King is delivered to Macbeth and Banquo by Angus and Ross that Macbeth has been titled Thane of Cawdor

-macbeth sends a letter to his wife Lady Macbeth telling her the good news. He alsotells her how it was also predicted that he was going to be king.

-the only thing now standing between Macbeth and the throne is the King Duncan.

-The king was expected to come spend the night at the Macbeth household.

-lady macbeth comes up with the idea that they should kill the king in his sleep and frame it on the servants. All that they need is a dagger, some alcohol and the will to kill.

Act 2-The newly drunk and passed out guards allow part 2 of the plan take action.

-before entering Duncan’s chamber, Macbeth starts hallucinating and sees a dagger floating before him.

Macbeth kills the king with the daggers and Lady Macbeth makes it look like the guards were the ones who did the deed by wiping blood on them. -In the morning, MacDuff enters the chamber to find a dead body alongside two bloody guards

-everybody in the house is called to the chamber. Macbeth puts on a show and pretends to feel sorrow. He then kills the two guards.

-Later on, both of Duncan’s sons run away so that they wouldn’t be suspected for murder but this backfired. Everybody now thinks that the sons were responsible for their fathers death.

-Macbeth begins putting more thought into the situation and what the witches told him. He now sees Banquo and his son as a threat to his power in royalty. He decides it would be best if he had them both killed.

-Macbeth hires 2 men to murder Banquo and he son Fleance before the dinner is held, while they are out.

-the murderers succeed in killing Banquo, but fail to kill his son for he has escaped.

Act 3

-the death has been blamed on Fleance because he ran away

-While Macbeth was supposed to entertain his guests for the dinner, he sees Banquo’s bloody ghost sitting in the empty chair. Macbeth freaks out and begins to talk to the ghost. The guests believe that Macbeth has gone terribly ill, but Lady reassures the guests that this is his normal behavior.

-Macbeth does not stop the madness even after Lady has told him to calm down.

-Lady Macbeth tells the guests to leave.

-the scene then changes location back to the witches. Hecate is angry with what the three witches have prophesied for Macbeth.

-Hecate then states that she will bring misery to Macbeth and fool him with illusions. He will be fooled into thinking he is the greatest man on earth.

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