Macbeth: Plot

The witches predicted that

Macbeth would become Thane of Cawdor and then king. Banquo would be the father of kings.

Duncan announced that the next king would be

Malcolm

In Act I, Lady Macbeth convinced her husband to

kill the king

The king's murder was to be blamed on

the servants

The setting for Act II is the

castle at Inverness

In Act II, Macbeth decides to kill the king when he hears the

ring of a bell

Macbeth murders the king because

of his ambition to become king.

Duncan's servants cannot protect him because

Lady Macbeth has drugged them

In Act II, Macbeth was supposed to leave the bloody daggers beside

the servants

In Act II, what did Lady Macbeth smear on the servants?

blood

Macbeth said he killed the servants because

his love for Duncan overcame his reason

In Act III, Macbeth wanted Banquo and his son murdered because he thought

Banquo was the only person who could identify him as a fraud and that his son may take the throne from him

In Act III, the murderers killed

Banquo

In Act III, how did Lady Macbeth feel about being queen?

She did not enjoy it as much as she had imagined as she had become more distant from her husband.

In Act III, whose ghost did Macbeth see at the royal banquet?

Banquo's

In Act III, Lady Macbeth said Macbeth's strange behavior was the result of

A strange illness he had since childhood

For advice, Macbeth decided to seek out

the witches

In Act III, Macduff went to England because he wanted to

seek help from King Edward of England to avenge Duncan's death

In Act IV, the apparition of a bloody child predicted that

Macbeth could not be killed by one born of a woman

In Act IV, the apparition of the child with the tree predicted Macbeth could only be killed

when Birnam Wood came to Dunsinane

In Act IV, the final apparition showed that

Banquo's sons would reign as kings

In Act IV, when Macbeth was told that Macduff had fled England, he decided to

go to his castle and kill his family

In Act IV, when Macduff heard that his family had been slaughtered, he vowed to

avenge his family's death by overthrowing Macbeth

In Act V, when Lady Macbeth complained about a spot on her hands, she was referring to

blood

In Act V, the English troops were led by

Malcolm

In Act V, the soldiers were ordered to carry tree boughs to

conceal their numbers

In Act V, Macbeth finds out what about Lady Macbeth?

She has died

In Act V, Macduff told Macbeth that if he didn't fight he would be

labeled a tyrant

In Act V, who killed Macbeth?

Macduff

In Act V, who became the new king?

Malcolm

After the killing of Macbeth, Malcolm declares

Macbeth to be a "butcher" and Lady Macbeth to be a "fiend-like Queen".

The setting of Macbeth at the start and end is...

on the battlefield.