Shakespeare’s The Tr agedy of

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The Rise and Fall of a Great Man

Shakespeare’s Inspiration

Shakespeare got his idea for Macbeth from Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles, the most popular book of British history of Shakespeare's days.

The Real Macbeth

• Macbeth was an 11th Century Scot who took the throne in 1040 after killing King Duncan I, his cousin, in a battle. •The real Macbeth was believed to be a wise monarch who reigned over Scotland for seventeen prosperous years.

•In 1057, King Duncan’s oldest son, Malcolm, ended Macbeth’s reign by killing him in battle and assuming the role as King Malcolm III.

Witchcraft in Shakespeare’s Day Many people believed in

the power of witches in Shakespeare’s day, especially King James I.

King James became the King of England in 1603. Shakespeare knew very well of King James’s superstition. Therefore, he wrote Macbeth, a play full of elements of evil!

The Tragedy of Macbeth

The action of the play takes place in northern Scotland and England.

As The Tragedy of Macbeth opens, the Scottish army is battling invading forces, and King Duncan wants a victory.

Macbeth was his army general.

Main character1. Macbeth: protagonist; ambitious army general in Scotland2. Lady Macbeth: Wife of Macbeth3. King Duncan: King of Scotland4. Malcolm: Oldest son of King Duncan; Prince of Cumberland5. Donalbain: Youngest son of King Duncan

6. Banquo: Army general; good, loyal friend of Macbeth

7. Macduff: Scottish nobleman and Lord of Fife; known for his wisdom and integrity

8. Three Witches

Plot

While crossing the stormy countryside after the battle, Macbeth and Banquo encounter a trio of witches.

The weird sisters make these predictions: • Macbeth will earn noble titles.• Banquo will produce a line of kings. • Macbeth will be King of Scotland.

Then, the witches vanish, and a messenger appears to tell Macbeth that King Duncan has just given him a noble title.

All Macbeth can think about is the sisters’ final prophecy …

And the thought that he might become king.

Macbeth said to his wife about witches' prophecies.

One day King Duncan decides to visit Macbeth’s castle.

Lady Macbeth said to Macbeth that this is their chance, and persuades him to kill the king that very night.

While Duncan is asleep, Macbeth killed him. And Lady Macbeth frames Duncan's sleeping servants for the murder by placing bloody daggers on them.

Duncan's sons Malcolm and Donalbain run away to England and Ireland, fearing that whoever killed Duncan desires their demise as well.

Macbeth became a new King of Scotland as a kinsman of the dead king.

After that Macbeth reminded witches' third prophecy, that Banquo will produce a line of kings.

Macbeth wanted to kill Banquo and his young son, Fleance. Macbeth hires men to kill them. The assassins succeed in killing Banquo, but Fleance escapes.

One day Macbeth saw Banquo’s ghost. So he decided to visit witches.

The weird sisters again make these prophecies :

1. He should beware Macduff.

2. No one born of woman could kill him.

3. There is nothing to worry until the woods move.

After that Macbeth orders to kill Macduff.They couldn’t find Macduff, and killed whole his family .

Macduff was in England visiting Malcolm, to persuades him to take back the throne.

Malcolm agreed to return the throne, so they came to Scotland with 10 000 solders. When English soldiers came to Birnam Wood, they decided to cut down and carry tree limbs to camouflage their numbers.

Macbeth’s wife became mad by thinking about her guilt. She had strange habit of sleepwalking and tries to wash off imaginary blood from her hands. At last she committed a suicide.

Macbeth sink into a deep and pessimistic despair and deliver his "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" .

By that time his was losing and most of his solders joined to English army.

When Macduff came to Macbeth there was a battle between them. Macbeth said that No one born of woman could kill him. Macduff said that he was "from his mother's womb / Untimely ripp'd" (5.8.15–16), i.e., born by Caesarean section.

Macbeth died from Macduff’s hand, Malcolm became a king.

Although Malcolm, and not Fleance, was placed on the throne, the witches' prophecy concerning Banquo (Banquo will produce a line of kings ) was known to the audience of Shakespeare's time to be true.

James VI of Scotland (later also James I of England) was known a progenies of Banquo.

Fascinating Fact

The words blood and night (or forms of them, such as bloody and tonight) occur more than 40 times each in Macbeth.

Other commonly occurring words that help maintain the mood of the play are terrible, horrible, black, devil, and evil.

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