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Understand every line of Macbeth. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Macbeth , which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. In a cavern, the weird sisters throw awful ingredients such as "eye of newt and toe of frog" 4.
Hecate arrives, and all dance and sing. Banquo and Fleance unwittingly head into Macbeth's trap. Macbeth worries, but becomes assured that Banquo can be killed. The murderers ambush Banquo and Fleance, but only manage to kill Banquo. Fleance survives, fleeing in the darkness.
The Scottish nobles have a feast. One of the murderers informs Macbeth of Banquo's fate. Banquo's ghost haunts Macbeth. Hecate scolds the witches for not involving her in their trickery.
She plans to lead Macbeth to his destruction. Lennox and a lord discuss how Malcolm has fled to the English court.
Macduff refuses to respond to Macbeth. Macbeth visits the witches again and hears prophecies from three apparitions. Macbeth learns that Macduff has fled. Lady Macduff learns that her husband has fled.
Murderers come and kill her child in front of her. They chase her. Macduff tries to bring Malcolm back to Scotland. Ross tells Macduff that every member of his household has been killed. A doctor has been sent for to see Lady Macbeth. Her guilty conscience causes her to sleepwalk and talk in her sleep. The exiled Scottish lords march toward Macbeth's castle, which he is fortifying, and prepare for war. Macbeth hears that the English army is approaching, and prepares for war. He asks the doctor how Lady Macbeth is doing.
Malcolm's faction approaches Macbeth's castle. Malcolm tells his soldiers to carry branches, fulfilling the prophecy. Macbeth prepares for the siege. He learns that Lady Macbeth has died, and hears that the forest seems to be moving. Macbeth visits the three witches to learn more about his fate. They show him three apparitions who tell Macbeth to beware Macduff, but also that no "man born of woman" can defeat him and that he will rule until Birnam Wood marches to Dunsinane a castle.
Since all men are born of women and trees can't move, Macbeth takes this to mean he's invincible. Yet the witches also confirm the prophecy that Banquo's line will one day rule Scotland. To strengthen his hold on the crown, Macbeth sends men to Macduff's castle to murder Macduff's family.
Meanwhile, in England, Macduff and Malcolm prepare to invade Scotland. When news comes to England of the murder of Macduff's family, Macduff, weeping, vows revenge.
While the English and Scottish under Malcolm march toward Dunsinane, Lady Macbeth begins sleepwalking and imagining blood on her hands that can't be washed off. Macbeth has become manic, cruel, and haughty—many of his men desert to Malcolm's side.
In Birnam Wood, Malcolm and his generals devise a strategy to hide their numbers—they cut branches to hold up in front of them. As Macbeth prepares for the siege, Lady Macbeth dies, perhaps of suicide. Macbeth can barely feel anything anymore, and her death only makes him give a speech about the meaninglessness of life.
Then Malcolm's forces appear looking like a forest marching toward the castle. Malcolm's forces quickly capture Dunsinane, but Macbeth himself fights on, mocking all who dare to face him as "men born of woman. Macduff kills Macbeth, and Malcolm is crowned as King of Scotland. Plot Summary. LitCharts Teacher Editions.
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