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Shakespeare creates tension through dramatic irony by creating evil witches that offer the main character the crown of Scotland. Before the witches offer great power they curse an innocent woman only because she refused to share her nuts with one of the witches.The witch then curses the husband ( a sailor) and all his crew, they no longer are able to sleep and are always hungry.

The main character, Macbeth trusts the witches prophecies this would make the audience feel tension because Macbeth does not know what the witches are capable of. This means Macbeth is quite naive or just plain selfish. This is how Shakespeare creates tension throughout the whole play because most of the audience know much more than the character.

At the end of the play Macbeth is killed by Macduff.
Even though Macbeth was given prophecies from the witches, no man born naturally from a woman can harm him. Macduff was possibly born differently and that made Macduff the only one possibly able to kill Macbeth. This is interesting because in most stories the main character doesn’t usually die.

This is how Shakespeare creates tension throughout the play.

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Macduffs wife interprets his flight to England as madness. Macduff’s son teases his mother. Then a messenger appears to warn of danger. The messenger warns lady Macduff to flee with her children because terrible danger is near. The murderes enter. They kill his son and pursue macduffs wife to murder her off stage.

The witches have said that the time has come to speak to Macbeth. Concentrated to their spell, they chant as they circle the cauldron, throwing in many ingredients to make a brew.

Then the witches finish their brew are congratulated by Hecate. Macbeth enters and challenges then to answer what he asks, irrespective of the most upcoming consequences.

The witches show their apparitions. An armed head warns Macbeth “beware Macbeth”. A bloody child tells him that no naturally born man can harm him. Macbeth then swears to kill Macduff.

The third apparition promises that Macbeth will not be defeated until Birnam Wood comes to dunsinane. Macbeth demands to no more about the future.

Having presented Banquo’s descendants as kings, the witches then vanish, to Macbeth’s anger. Macbeth vows to kill every member of macduffs family he can catch.

Macbeth changed after 3 acts by holusinating banquos ghost and had turned mad and guilty for killin Duncan and his beloved friends and family. He has turned phsyco with much power and paranoid. He murder all who threaten him, embarks on wars to defend his position, and continues to seek out the witches to see what they have to say for his future.

In this scene Hecate argues with the witches for speaking to Macbeth without her. Hecate then tells them to meet her at the pit of Acheron to tell Macbeth his destiny. She promises to use magic to ruin Macbeths confidence.

In this scene the porter starts cursing and getting very angry at how he cannot rest. Then he gets drunk in the night because he can’t sleep and the knocking has awaken many. Macbeth has already killed Duncan and is getting nervous after the Porters spoken Macduff then goes to check on Duncan and finds him murdered.

Everyone in the castle is silent and shocked except for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth because they already knew. Macduff thinks it was the guards because they were smeared with blood with the daggers in their palms (dead)

Then Macbeth confesses of killing the guards because he tries to prove he is loyal. Suddenly lady Macbeth fakes her fainting to stop Macbeth from confessing anything else. Macbeth starts faking many things and seems very sad.

DonaldBain and Malcolm Duncan’s sons have a chat to flee because they want to live. If the murderer has killed Duncan would probably kill his children to be next on the throne. But if they run they could be suspects and be blamed for the murder. Malcolm goes to England and Donaldbain goes to Ireland so they could be safe.

The witches appear to give Macbeth prophecies and betray Macbeth by lying and make him believe what they say. In 1:3 but in 1:1 they decide where to meet to tell Macbeth his prophecies.

This scene starts with Lady Macbeth entering and speaking to herself. Then enters Macbeth with two bloody daggers they argue about what they shall do. Macbeth cannot say amen because he feels guilty of what he has done.