Month: January 2016

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.