MACBETH
Name: Kimberley
Date: Tuesday April 10, 2012
The play of "Macbeth", which is a famous play by Shakespeare, is set in Scotland and begins with three witches who are making a potion that will help fulfill a prophesy. The prophesy starts when the two generals of the Scottish King Duncan, Macbeth and Banqou, are coming to meet the King after defeating two armies in battle. While they are on their way to see the King, they meet the three witches. The witches tell them that Macbeth will one day become King. They also say that Banqou's descendent will one day be King. Macbeth does not believe them until he is made a Scottish Nobel by the King. When the king goes to Macbeth's castle to dine, Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth that he should steal the thrown by killing the King. Macbeth kills the King as, Lady Macbeth had told him, and is crowned King of Scotland after blaming the murder on the King Duncan'sservants. Since the witches had said that Banqou's descendant would one day be King of Scotland, Macbeth gets someone to kill Banqou and his son, Fleance. Banqou is killed but his son was able to get away.
At a feast held for the nobles in the castle, Macbeth sees Banqou's ghost and starts to act as though he is crazy. After seeing Macbeth act this way his guests begin to wonder if he is fit to be their King. One of the guests, whose name was Macduff was planning to overthrow Macbeth after the feast. After seeing Banqou's ghost, Macbeth goes to see the witches because of how paranoid and insane he had become after the encounter.
The witches tell him to beware of Macduff, this worries him, but he is reassured when they tell him that he will not be harmed by any man born of women and that he will be safe until Birnam Woods comes to Dunsinane Castel. Because of what the witches had said about Macduff, Macbeth orders Macduff's family to be killed. When Macduff hears of this he vows to take revenge on Macbeth. Meanwhile Lady Macbeth has killed herself due to the guilt that she felt for being the one who had told Macbeth to kill the King Duncan. Macduff later comes back tofight Macbeth with an army that he has formed with the King Duncan's son, Malcolm, who also wishes to overthrow Macbeth. Macduff's uses branches that they had taken from Birnam Woods to shield themselves.
While Macbeth and Macduff fight, Macduff tells Macbeth that he was not born of women but untimely ripped from his mother's womb. After Macduff kills Macbeth, Malcolm becomes the new King of Scotland. Later
on in the years Fleance becomes the King. Everything had gone as thewitches had foretold.