A brief information of Macbeth

This drama is one of the great tragedy themed plays by William Shakespeare. The themes illustrated in the play include ambition, fate, deception and treachery. Three witches  decide to confront the great Scottish general Macbeth on his victorious return from a war between Scotland and Norway. The Scottish king, Duncan, decides that he will confer the title of the traitorous Cawdor on the heroic Macbeth. Macbeth, and another General called Banquo, happen upon the three witches. The witches predict that he will one day become king. He decides that he will murder Duncan. Macbeth's wife agrees to his plan. He then murders Duncan assisted by his wife who smears the blood of Duncan on the daggers of the sleeping guards. A nobleman called Macduff discovers the body. Macbeth kills the guards insisting that their daggers smeared with Duncan's blood are proof that they committed the murder. The crown passes to Macbeth. More murders ensue and the bloodied ghost of Banquo appears to Macbeth. Lady Macbeth's conscience now begins to torture her and she imagines that she can see her hands covered with blood. She commits suicide. Macduff kills Macbeth and becomes king.

Here we have some important points of the story...

• In this story Banquo was killed by a group of murderers hired by Macbeth, the Lord Siward's son was killed by Macbeth, on the other hand Macduff was killed by Macbeth too, and Lady Macbeth was killed by herself and she dies offstage, it describes Lady Matcbeth's death.
• Throughout the play three men reing as king of Scotland.
• Donalbain discovers Duncan's body. Duncan was killed in his bedchamber at Macbeth's castle.
• Whom does Lady Macbeth frame for the murder of Duncan? Duncan's drunken chamberlains.
• Whom does Macbeth see sitting in his chair during the banquet? Banquo's ghost.
• What vision does Macbeth have before he kills Duncan? He sees a floating dagger pointing him to Duncan's chamber.
• The Scots are with Norway at war at the beginning of the play.
• At the end of the play England's army invades Scotland.
• Hecate is the goddes of witchcraft in the play.
• Lady Macbeth was plagued by fits of sleepwalking... it happens before she died.
• In Scone the Scottish kings were crowned.
• Why is Macduff able to kill Macbeth despite the witches' prophecy? He was born by cesarean section.
• Macduff flees Scotland to join Malcolm in England.
• "Thane of Cawdor" is the title that Macbeth given after his victory described in Act 1.
• Ross tells Macduff that his family has been killed.
• How does Birnam Wood come to Dunsinane? Malcolm's army hides behind cut-off tree branches.

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