Author: Olivia

Characters in order of appearance:

First Murderer
Third Murderer
Second Murderer
Banquo

Time: Night

Summary:
The hired murderers met, and when they heard horses a signal was given, and his son Fleance were attacked. One of the murderers blew out the lantern and the job was left half done because although Banquo was killed, Fleance escaped.

Characters in order of appearance:

Lady Macbeth
Servant
Macbeth

Time: Evening

Summary:
This scene shows the audience the unseen thoughts of the ambitious pair. When the hired murderers take their place waiting for Banquo, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth meet in secret. She attempts to soothe his troubled mind and thoughts but she too feels the same troubles herself. By killing the king, this has come with more difficulties than they had originally thought. Macbeth then reveals his plan to kill Banquo much to the surprise of Lady Macbeth.

Characters in order of appearance:

Banquo
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Servant
First Murderer
Second Murderer

Time: Evening

Summary:
At Macbeth’s Palace in Forres, Banquo thinks about the encounter of the witches and Macbeth’s coronation. The witches predicted that Macbeth would become king and that Banquo’s line would eventually sit on the throne. He thinks if Macbeth has now become king, when will Banquo’s line sit on the throne? Macbeth enters as King along with Lady Macbeth and the court. He and Lady Macbeth ask Banquo to come to the dinner they are having that same night, and Banquo says he will come after he goes on a horse ride with his son. Banquo leaves, and Macbeth dismisses his court. He is left alone in the hall with a servant who says there are some men that have come to see him, and Macbeth tells the servant he wants to see them. The two men come in and Macbeth asks them if they are angry enough to kill Banquo, and the say yes. Macbeth reminds him to kill his son Fleance too and tells them to wait in the castle for his command.

Characters in order of appearance:
Old Man
Ross
Macduff

Time: Afternoon

Summary:
On his way from the castle, the Thane of Ross encounters an Old Man, who confirms the widespread reports of disruption in the natural world. Macduff comes into the scene and says king Duncan has been buried. He also says that his sons have fled and that the kingship has passed on to Macbeth. Notice that the prophecies mention by the witches in act 1 have been completed.

Quote by old man:
OLD MAN

Characters in order of appearance:
Porter
Macduff
Lennox
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Donalbain

Time:
Morning of the following day.

Summary:
Macduff is talking with a porter who says he was drinking until 3 am. Lennox says good morning to Macbeth who has entered. Lennox goes to wake the king, and come back screaming he’s dead. Macduff sees for himself. The Kings guards are blamed.

Quote from Macduff:

Characters:
Lady Macbeth
Macbeth

Time: Sometime past Midnight

Summary:
Lady Macbeth has come back to her room just after she has drugged the King Duncan’s guards. She meets Macbeth in the in the lower courtyard as he comes out of the king’s room itself,  and the things he says obviously portrays his conscience because of his evil acts.  Lady Macbeth critiques and criticises him. The success of their plot is also in jeopardy because Macbeth has brought the daggers with him, and he has blood all over himself. Lady Macbeth returns to the scene of the murder in order to place the daggers and to smear the king’s sleeping servants with blood, a deed that presents her with none of the horrors that now affects Macbeth. As the scene closes, we hear, with the Macbeth’s, a loud and persistent knocking at the door.

Characters:
Banquo
Fleance
Macbeth

Location:
Macbeth’s Castle, Glamis.

Time:
Near Midnight

Summary:
Banquo and his son Fleance are at Macbeth’s inner court in Macbeth’s castle in Glamis. They’re both feeling a bit off. Then Macbeth enters with a servant and Banquo says that now Macbeth is Thane of Cawdor he should be relaxing because of the good news.

Characters:
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth

Location:
Macbeth’s Castle

Time:
Midday-Evening

Summary:
Macbeth is alone in one of the rooms in the castle and has second thoughts about killing King Duncan. He knows how powerful he could potentially be, but also knows the consequences of his actions if he is caught. Lady Macbeth comes in and basically tells him that his second thoughts are nonsense, and if she were him she would have done it. She feels strongly about the actions they are going to take and persuades her husband into doing the deed.

Quote:

 ” LADY MACBETH

Character Analysis: Lady Macbeth

In Act 1 of ‘Macbeth’ By William Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth is portrayed to the audience as insane,  ruthless, ambitious, and possibly even more powerful than her husband, Macbeth. In Scene 5, Act 1 of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth reads her famous soliloquy. This the first time the audience really get to see who she is-her purpose in the play and her ‘aspirations’ .
In this soliloquy, she reads Macbeth letter about his encounter with the weird sisters and speaks about their prophecies of him being thane of Cawdor and the king.
Lady Macbeth expresses to herself (and the audience) her worries about Macbeth. She believes he doesn’t have the ambition or courage to grasp the titles the sisters have told him. Her ambition drives her husband towards the cruel and desperate act of Duncan’s murder.
She says Macbeth is;
‘ Too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness’
She calls on the ‘spirits’ to ‘unsex’ her- to take away her femininity so she can kill Duncan. Later on, Macbeth arrives and she instructs him to leave the planning and killing in her hands.  

LADY MACBETH
The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements. Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-ful
Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood;
Stop up th’ access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
Th’ effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murth’ring ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature’s mischief! Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry ‘Hold, hold!’ (1.5.38–54)

Characters:
Duncan
Malcolm
Donalbain
Banquo
Lennox
Macduff
Ross
Angus

Location:
Macbeth’s Castle

Time: Midday

Summary:
In this scene of Macbeth, the characters arrive at Inverness. King Duncan comments on the sweetness of the air, and Banquo says birds must be nesting in the castle. It’s ironic that King Duncan comments on where he will die is beautiful. Lady Macbeth enters the scene and kindly greets the King and Thanes. Macbeth is nowhere to be seen, so the soon to be murder weighs more on him than his wife.

Quote:
” DUNCAN