MACBETH

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MACBETH

• ACT I

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THE SETTING

• SCOTLAND
• 1100 A.D.
• SCOTLAND IS DIVIDED INTO SECTIONS OF LAND

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Characters

• Duncan is the king
• EACH SECTION OWNED BY A THANE
• Map of Macbeth's Scotland

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Characterscont.

• Characters are called Thane of Glamis or
  Glamis as well as their names (Macbeth)
• Banquo (Macbeths friend)
• Ross and Angus (just guys)
• Malcolm and Donalbain (sons of Duncan princes)
• WITCHES!

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The PLOT

• Witches! Plan to meet with Macbeth
• Battlefield
• Soldier tells of the battle
• Macbeth was brave!
• Cawdor was a traitor!
• King decides to have Cawdor executed and give
  Thane of Cawdor to Macbeth

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The PLOT

• Before Macbeth gets word of his new title
• MEETS THE WITCHES!
• Prophecies for Macbeth
• Thane of Glamis!
• Thane of Cawdor!
• King hereafter!
• Prophecies for Banquo
• Lesser than Macbeth and greater
• Not so happy, yet much happier
• Shall beget kings, though not be king

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The PLOT cont.

• Witches vanish!
• Banquo and Macbeth laugh it off
• Kings men announce
• Macbeth is the new Thane of Cawdor!
• Macbeth starts to think he might also become king!

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Wednesday April 29ACT I, scene iv-v

• Scene iv opens at Forres, King Duncans castle.
• Duncan and Malcolm discuss the execution of the
  Thane of Cawdor.
• Macbeth and Banquo enter
• Duncan tells Macbeth he has plans for him!
• Duncan announces that Malcolm (Prince of
  Cumberland) will be next in line to be king
• Duncan says he will now visit Macbeth at Inverness

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Act I, scene v

• Scene v opens at Inverness, Macbeths castle
• Lady Macbeth reads a letter from Macbeth

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Lady Macbeth reads the letter

• It tells of the witches!
• Lady thinks
• Macbeth is Glamis!
• Macbeth is Cawdor!
• Hes going to be KING!
• But Im afraid he is not MAN enough to make it
  happen!
• Lady decides she will persuade Macbeth to take
  action!

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A messenger arrives!

• And says The king will stay here tonight
• Lady Macbeth can hardly believe her ears!
• She then delivers a soliloquy
• Come, Spirits!
• Take away my womanliness
• Fill me with cruelty!
• Come, Thick Night!
• Cover my dark deeds!
• Dont let the heavens see what we are about to
  do!

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Enters Macbeth!

• Lady Macbeth greets him by calling him
• Glamis! Cawdor! King hereafter!
• They talk of Duncans plans to spend the night.
• Lady says
• Lets kill him!
• Look innocent!
• Leave it all to me!

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Thursday April 30Scene vi Front of Macbeths
Castle

• King Duncan (and others) arrive
• Lady greets him
• Macbeth is not around(off feeling guilty)

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Scene vii A room in Macbeths castle

• Macbeths soliloquy
• I wish we could get this over with quickly!
• But what if one bad deed (killing Duncan) leads
  to more?
• Duncan is my guest and my king! I mustnt do
  this!
• I dont have the guts to do this!
• Only vaulting ambition

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Lady Macbeth comes in and says

• Where have you BEEN!?
• Macbeth says he doesnt want to go through with
  the plan
• Ive just been honored!
• Lady taunts him
• You have the desire to be king but no guts to
  make it happen!
• You are not a REAL MAN!

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Macbeth defends himself!

• I am too a man!
• Lady
• But you would be MORE the man if you killed
  Duncan!
• You are killing this baby (killing the plan
  before it grows to result)
• Macbeth
• But what if we FAIL?

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Lady lays out the murder plan

• When King Duncan is asleep
• Ill get the guards drunk
• Then you can sneak in and kill Duncan!
• Then well blame the killing on the guards!
• Macbeth says
• You should only have sons, never daughters
• Because you are made of such nasty, tough stuff!
• All right lets do it.

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ACT II

• Scene Macbeths castle
• Banquo and his son Fleance
• Talk of how dark the night is

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Macbeth enters

• Banquo says
• I dreamed about the Weird Sisters (witches)
• Macbeth says
• I dont think about them
• But now that you mentioned it
• It will benefit you to be loyal to me

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Banquo and Fleance exit

• Macbeth sees a bloody dagger!
• Macbeths soliloquy!
• Is this a dagger?
• I can see youbut not touch you!
• This is just like the dagger Im going to use to
  kill Duncan!
• Its leading me to his bedchamber!
• Oh dark worldhear not what is about to happen

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Macbeth is still talking

• Too many words cools off my courage to do the
  deed!
• A bell sounds! Its the signal from Lady that
  everything is ready!
• Macbeth says it is Duncans funeral knell.

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Scene ii Still in the castle

• Lady Macbeth
• The liquor has made her feel bold!
• A hoot from an owl!
• A cry from Macbeth!
• Lady
• Has he messed up the plan?
• I had everything ready for him!
• In fact, I would have done it myself if he hadnt
  looked like my father!

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Enters Macbethlooking dazed and bloody

• Macbeth
• I did it.
• Oh look at the mess on my hands
• The guards cried out in their sleep!
• I thought I heard a voice Sleep no more! Macbeth
  has murdered the innocence of sleep!
• Lady
• Knock it off!

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• Lady
• Youre talking crazy
• Go wash your hands
• WAIT! WHY DO YOU STILL HAVE THE DAGGERS?
• You were supposed to leave them with the guards!
• Macbeth
• I cant go back in there again!
• I wont!
• Lady
• Then ILL do it! (You sissy!)

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While Lady is taking the daggers into the guards
chambers

• Macbeth
• Wonders if hell ever be able to wash the blood
  off his hands
• Lady returns
• Look! My hands are red like yours
• But Id be ashamed to have a white heart (fear)
  like yours!

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Knocking at the gate

• Lady
• Quickly! Wash our hands!
• Get into your nightclothes!
• MORE KNOCKING!
• Macbeth
• I wish the knocking could wake up Duncan!

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Act II, Scene iii - Porter

• Porter answers the gate
• Macduff and Lenox arrive
• Lennox The night has been unruly
• Macbeth Twas a rough night.
• Macduff O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor
  heart
• Cannot conceive nor name thee!

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Murder discovery

• Macduff says to Lady Macbeth
• O gentle lady,
• 'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak
• The repetition, in a woman's ear,
• Would murder as it fell.

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Macbeth says to Donalbain and Malcolm

• The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood
• Is stopp'd the very source of it is stopp'd.

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When Macbeth says he killed the guards (in fury)

• Macduff asks Wherefore did you so?
• Macbeth replies Who can be wise, amazed,
  temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a
  moment?

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The thanes plan to meet in the hall to decide
what to do!

• But Malcolm says to Donalbain
• What will you do? Let's not consort with them
  To show an unfelt sorrow is an office
• Which the false man does easy. I'll to England.

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Malcolm and Donalbain decide to leave

• Donalbain says To Ireland, I our separated
  fortune
• Shall keep us both the safer where we are,
• There's daggers in men's smiles the near in
  blood,
• The nearer bloody.

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Act II, Scene iv outside Macbeths castle

• Ross and Old Man Strange things have been
  happening!
• Here comes Macduff!
• Ross Who killed the king?
• Macduff They say the chamberlains did it.
• Ross Why?

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Macduff is suspicious

• They were suborn'd
• Malcolm and Donalbain, the king's two sons,
• Are stol'n away and fled which puts upon them
• Suspicion of the deed.

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Macbeth shall be king!

• Ross Then 'tis most like
• The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth.
• Macduff He is already named, and gone to Scone
  To be invested.

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• Ross Will you to Scone?
• Macduff No, cousin. Ill to Fife.
• Ross says hes going to Scone to see Macbeth
  crowned.
• Macduff says may you see things well done
  there adieu!
• Lest our old robes sit easier than our new!
• ---END OF ACT II---

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ACT IIISecne i

• Banquo begins to suspect Macbeth!
• Thou hast it now king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,
• As the weird women promised, and, I fear,
• Thou play'dst most foully for't.

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Macbeth talks to Banquo

• Macbeth Heres our chief guest!...Supper
  tonight?
• M Ride you this afternoon?
• M Ist far you ride?
• We hear, our bloody cousins are bestow'd
• In England and in Ireland, not confessing
• Their cruel parricide
• M Goes Fleance with you?

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Macbeth hires murderers

• M To be thus is nothing But to be safely thus.
• MOur fears in Banquo stick deep
• M (talking about Banquo) He bade them speak to
  him then prophet-like
• They hail'd him father to a line of kings
• Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,
• And put a barren sceptre in my gripe

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Macbeth is still thinking

• M For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind
• For them the gracious Duncan have I murder'd

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Macbeth talks to the murderers

• Remember how we talked yesterday?
• Remember how I explained that your suffering and
  low position are BANQUOs fault?
• We are men, my liege.
• Yes, you are men just as curs and mongrels are
  also called dogs. (In other words, you are a
  miserable excuse for men.)

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Murders agree to kill Banquo

• Murderers say that their lives are miserable and
  worth risking to make better
• Macbeth I could just have him killed myself, but
  he and I have mutual friends who wouldnt
  understand
• Macbeth Within this hour at most
• I will advise you where to plant yourselves

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And Fleance, too

• To leave no blotches in the work, kill Fleance
  too.
• Macbeth It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul's
  flight, If it find heaven, must find it out
  to-night.

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Act III, Scene ii

• Lady Macbeth is also unsettled
• Nought's had, all's spent, Where our desire is
  got without content
• Macbeth enters. Lady says
• Things without all remedy
• Should be without regard what's done is done
• Macbeth says We have scotch'd the snake, not
  kill'd it

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Macbeth is unhappy

• better be with the dead,
• Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,
• Than on the torture of the mind to lie
• In restless ecstasy.

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Macbeth tells Lady to be a good hostess

• O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!
• Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance,
  lives.
• ere the bat hath flown
• His cloister'd flightthere shall be done
• A deed of dreadful note.

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Act III, scene iii

• Murderers await Banquo and Fleance
• Banquo There will be rain tonight.
• Murderers Let it come down!
• Banquo Fly, Fleance, Fly!

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Act III, scene iv THE BANQUET!

• At the beginning of the scene, the murderer tells
  Macbeth of killing Banquo (twenty trenched
  gashes on his head)
• When Macbeth learns that Fleance got away, he
  says There the grown serpent lies. The worm
  that's fled Hath nature that in time will venom
  breed No teeth for th' present

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Banquet continues

• Macbeth tells everyone to sit down
• Here had we now our country's honor roofed,
• Were the graced person of our Banquo present,
• Who may I rather challenge for unkindness
• Than pity for mischance.

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Banquet

• Macbeth cant find a place to sit down because he
  sees someone sitting in his chair
• Everyone at the banquet sees an empty chair, but
  Macbeth sees

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Banquos bloody ghost!
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Macbeth says incriminating things!

• Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake
• Thy gory locks at me.
• Lady tries to calm everyone

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Lady tries to calm the guests

• Sit, worthy friends. My lord is often thus
• And hath been from his youth. Pray you, keep
  seat.
• The fit is momentary upon a thought
• He will again be well. If much you note him,
• You shall offend him and extend his passion.
• Feed and regard him not.

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Lady to Macbeth (aside)

• ARE YOU A MAN?!
• Macbeth says Ay, and a bold one, that dare look
  on that
• Which might appall the devil.
• Lady This is the very painting of your fear.
• This is the air-drawn dagger which you said
• Led you to Duncan

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Listen to Lady chastise Macbeth!

• These flaws and starts,
• Impostors to true fear, would well become
• A woman's story at a winter's fire,
• Authorized by her grandam. Shame itself!
• Why do you make such faces? When all's done,
• You look but on a stool.

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Macbeth says to Lady

• The time has been
• That, when the brains were out, the man would
  die,
• And there an end. But now they rise again
• With twenty mortal murders on their crowns
• And push us from our stools.

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They return to the banquet--

• Macbeth to his guests
• Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends.
• I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing
• To those that know me. Come, love and health to
  all.
• Then I'll sit down. Give me some wine. Fill full.

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Macbeth offers a toast to Banquo (whom we miss)

• Macbeth sees Banquo again!
• Screams Avaunt, and quit my sight! Let the
  earth hide thee.
• Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold.

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Lady tries one more time to calm everyone down--

• Think of this, good peers,
• But as a thing of custom. 'Tis no other
• Only it spoils the pleasure of the time.

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Macbeth says (to the ghost)

• I am as brave as any other man. Come at me in the
  form of a rugged Russian bear, an armor-plated
  rhinoceros, or a tiger from Iran. Take any shape
  other than the one you have now and I will never
  tremble in fear. Or come back to life again and
  challenge me to a duel in some deserted place. If
  I tremble then, you can call me a little girl.
  Get out of here, you horrible ghost, you
  hallucination. Get out!

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The ghost leaves

• Macbeth says Why so, being gone,
• I am a man again. Pray you sit still.
• But Macbeths strange behavior has ruined the
  party.
• Lady says You have displaced the mirth, broke
  the good meeting,
• With most admired disorder.

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Macbeth asks the guests how they can stay calm
while looking at such things?

• They ask What things?
• Lady interrupts Dont ask him questions!
• Leave! Partys over!
• Stand not upon the order of your going,
• But go at once.

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Miserable Macbeth talks to Lady

• It will have blood, they say. Blood will have
  blood. (dead will get revenge)
• Why do you think Macduff doesnt come to my
  parties?
• Macbeth keeps a servant fed in each of his
  thanes houses
• Macbeth says he will go see the weird sisters in
  the morning.

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Macbeths most famous line

• I am in blood
• Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more,
• Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

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Lady says

• You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

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Act III, scene iii

• SKIP THIS SCENE OF HECATE

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Act III, scene iv (not on tape)

• Lennox and lord talk of suspicions of Macbeth
• Weve said that Duncans sons must have killed
  himif were going to use that standard, it must
  be that Fleance killed Banquo
• I heard that Macduff is on Macbeths bad side for
  not attending the banquet Do you know where he
  is?
• To England to join up with Malcolm!

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ACT IV, scene IWITCHES!

• Brew! (read together)
• By the pricking of my thumbs,
• Something wicked this way comes.
• Open, locks,
• Whoever knocks!

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1st Apparition (Armored Head)

• 1 Beware Macduff! Beware the Thane of Fife!
• M HmmmI was already worried about Macduff.

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2nd Apparition (Bloody child)

• none of woman born
• Shall harm Macbeth
• Ha! Then I dont need to worry about
  Macduffstill, Ill make extra sure and have him
  killed.

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3rd Apparition (Crowned child holding a tree)

• Macbeth will not be defeated until
• Birnam Wood comes to
• Dunsinane Hill
• Great! That will never happen! But tell me one
  more thing Shall Banquo's issue ever
• Reign in this kingdom?

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Witches warn Macbeth Seek to know no more!

• M Answer me!

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SHOW OF KINGS

• 8 kings, all looking like Banquothe last is
  holding a mirror.
• When he holds up the mirror, it reflects more,
  more, more kings
• Banquo smiles upon Macbeth
• And points at them for his.

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Witches vanish Lennox enters

• Macbeth wonders if anyone else saw the weird
  sisters
• Lennox Nope. We just came to tell you that
  Macduff has fled to England!

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Macbeth reacts to this news

• The very firstlings of my heart shall be
• The firstlings of my hand.
• The castle of Macduff I will surprise,
• Seize upon Fife, give to th' edge o' th' sword
• His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls
• That trace him in his line.

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Act IV, scene ii Macduffs castle

• Ross tells Lady Macduff that her husband has gone
  to England
• Lady Macduff is distressed
• Why did he leave us here?
• Even the small wren will fight against the owl if
  her babies are in peril

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Lady Macduff talks to her child

• Note bird imagery
• Boy says clever things

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Messenger runs in Dont be found here!

• Murderers come in and ask where Macduff is.
• Lady Macduff says
• I hope, in no place so unsanctified
• Where such as thou mayst find him.

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Act IV, scene iii

• England Malcolm and Macduff discuss the
  condition of Scotland.
• Malcolm tries to determine if Macduff is honestly
  trying to help Scotland or just spying for
  Macbeth.

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Ross arrives with heavy news

• Ross tells Macduff that his family has been
  killed.
• Macduff will avenge his familys deaths, but
  first he must feel it as a man.
• The men are incited for battle.

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ACT V, scene i

• Lady Macbeth sleepwalks!
• Doctor and Gentlewoman talk
• DOCTOR
• I have two nights watched with you but can
  perceive no
• truth in your report. When was it she last
  walked?

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• Gentlewoman
• Since his majesty went into the field, I have
  seen her rise
• from her bed, throw her nightgown upon her,
  unlock her
• closet, take forth paper, fold it, write upon 't,
  read it,
• afterwards seal it, and again return to bed
  yet all this while
• in a most fast sleep.

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Doctor asks

• What, at any time, have you heard her say?
• Gentlewoman (nurse) answers
• That, sir, which I will not report after her
• having no witness to confirm my speech.

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Lady walks in with a candle.

• Doctor How came she by that light?
• Gentlewoman She has light by her continually.
  'Tis her command.

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• DOCTOR
• You see her eyes are open.
• GENTLEWOMAN
• Ay, but their sense is shut.
• DOCTOR
• What is it she does now? Look, how she rubs her
  hands.
• GENTLEWOMAN
• It is an accustomed action with her to seem thus
  washing her hands. I have
• known her continue in this a quarter of an hour.

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Lady Speaks!

• Yet here's a spot.
• Out, damned spot! Out, I say!
• One, two. Why, then, 'tis time to do 't.
• Hell is murky!
• Fie, my lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard?

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• What need we fear who knows
• it, when none can call our power to account?
• Yet who would have thought the
• old man to have had so much blood in him.
• The thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she
  now?What, will these hands ne'er be clean?
• No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that.
• You mar all with this starting.

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DOCTOR AND GENTLEWOMAN

• YOU SHOULDNT HAVE HEARD THIS!
• SHE SHOULDNT HAVE SAID IT!

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LADY CONTINUES

• Here's the smell of the blood still.
• All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten
• this little hand. Oh, Oh, Oh!
• DOCTOR
• What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely
  charged.

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DOCTOR

• This disease is beyond my practice. Yet I have
  known those which have walked in
• their sleep who have died holily in their beds.

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Lady deepens her guilt!

• Wash your hands, put on your nightgown look not
  so
• pale.--I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried he
• cannot come out on's grave.

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And this

• To bed, to bed! there's knocking at the gate
• come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What's
• done cannot be undone.--To bed, to bed, to bed!

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ACT V, scene ii

• Soldiers gathering to attack Macbeth!
• MENTEITH
• What does the tyrant?
• CAITHNESS
• Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies
• Some say he's mad others that lesser hate him
• Do call it valiant fury

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Angus comments on Macbeth

• Now does he feel
• His secret murders sticking on his hands
• Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach
• Those he commands move only in command,
• Nothing in love now does he feel his title
• Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe
• Upon a dwarfish thief.

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ACT V, scene iiiDunsinane--A room in the castle.

• Read together
• Macbeth hears reports of the battle
• Macbeth regrets that he has nothing to grow old
  for
• The doctor tells Macbeth that Lady is not well
  mentally
• Macbeth asks if he can cure her
• Doctor She must cure herself.

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ACT V, scene ivCountry near Birnam wood

• Malcolm
• Let every soldier hew him down a bough
• And bear't before him thereby shall we shadow
• The numbers of our host and make discovery
• Err in report of us.

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ACT V, scene vDunsinane - Within the castle.

• Macbeth hears a woman cry and says
• I have almost forgot the taste of fear

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• MACBETH
• To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
• Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
• To the last syllable of recorded time,
• Day after day keeps creeping onforever.
• And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
• The way to dusty death.
• Our pasts just guide us fools towards the end.
• Out, out, brief candle!
• Im ready to be dead.

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• Life's but a walking shadow,
• Life is meaningless and empty
• a poor player
• That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
• And then is heard no more
• We are like actors, briefly on a stage (life)
• it is a tale
• Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
• Signifying nothing. Life is meaningless.

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Messenger arrives to say

• As I did stand my watch upon the hill,
• I look'd toward Birnam, and anon, methought,
• The wood began to move.
• BIRNAM WOOD IS COMING TO DUNSINANE!

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Macbeth responds

• Arm, arm, and out!
• Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!
• At least we'll die with harness on our back.
• ???

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ACT V, Scene viSoldiers have reached Dunsinane!

• Malcolm says to Seward (English general)
• MALCOLM
• Now near enough your leafy screens throw
  down.
• And show like those you are. You (Seward)
• Lead our first battle worthy Macduff and we
• Shall take upon 's what else remains to do.

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ACT V, scene viiOutside Macbeths castle
Battle!

• Macbeth
• They have tied me to a stake I cannot fly,
• But, bear-like, I must fight the course.
• What's he
• That was not born of woman? Such a one
• Am I to fear, or none.

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• Young Seward (son of the general) fights Macbeth
  and dies.
• Macbeth says
• Thou wast born of woman
• But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn,
• Brandish'd by man that's of a woman born.

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Macduff runs across the stage just long enough to
say

• Tyrant, show thy face!
• If thou be'st slain and with no stroke of mine,
• My wife and children's ghosts will haunt me
  still.
• I cannot strike (kill people who are merely hired
  to fight for Macbeth)
• Or else my sword with an unbatter'd edge
• I sheathe again undeeded.

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Seward and Malcolm

• Seward the castle's gently render'd
• The tyrant's people on both sides do fight
• Malcolm We have met with foes
• That strike beside us.

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Act V, scene viiiMacbeth vs. Macduff

• Macbeth (to self) decides not to play the Roman
  fool and die on mine own sword
• Macduff Turn, Hellhound, turn!
• Macbeth Of all men else I have avoided thee
• But get thee back my soul is too much charged
• With blood of thine already.

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• Macduff
• I have no words My voice is in my sword
• Macbeth
• Youll be wasting your waste effort. I bear a
  charmed life, which must not yield,
• To one of woman born.

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The last prophecy comes true!

• Macduff says
• Despair thy charm
• And let the angel whom thou still hast served
• Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother's womb
• Untimely ripp'd.

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• Macbeth
• The witches were lying double-talkers!
• I'll not fight with thee.
• Macduff
• Then give up and well tour you around the
  countryside like a freakshow

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Macbeths last words

• I will not yield,
• To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's
  feetThough Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,
• And thou opposed, being of no woman born,
• Yet I will try the last. Before my body
• I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,
• And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold,
  enough!'

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Ross tells Seward his son was killed in battle.

• Ross your cause of sorrow
• Must not be measured by his worth, for then
• It hath no end.
• Seward Had he his hurts before?
• Ross Ay, on the front.

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Macduff enterswith Macbeths HEAD!

• Macduff hails Malcolm as new King of Scotland
• Malcolm thanks everyone and ends with this
  couplet
• So, thanks to all at once and to each one,
• Whom we invite to see us crown'd at Scone.

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• END