Shakespeare - Macbeth - Summary - Act 1

Summary of Act 1

• Macbeth finds out he’ll be king through the witches’ prophecy.

• Duncan is the current king; making Malcolm the heir to the throne.

• Lady Macbeth and Macbeth make a plan to murder the King, Duncan.

  • Set up the guards, by getting them drunk, and kill the King with their daggers.

• Macbeth doubts their plan, but Lady Macbeth tells him to ‘be a man’

  • Saying if she were breast feeding a baby she would go as far as to kill the baby then and there.

• Banquo is told that his children will be kings.

ACT 1, SCENE 3, The witch's prophecy is About Macbeth becoming king of Scotland, but Banquo’s children becoming kings.