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These scenes establish the play’s dramatic premise—the witches’ awakening of Macbeth’s ambition—and present the main characters and their relationships. At the same time, the first three scenes establish a dark mood that permeates the entire play. The stage directions indicate that the play begins with a storm, and malignant supernatural forces immediately appear in the form of the three witches. From there, the action quickly shifts to a battlefield that is dominated by a sense of the grisliness and cruelty of war. In his description of Macbeth and Banquo’s heroics, the captain dwells specifically on images of carnage: “he unseamed him from the nave to th’ chops,” he says, describing Macbeth’s slaying of Macdonwald. The bloody murders that fill the play are foreshadowed by the bloody victory that the Scots win over their enemies.

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After his first confrontation with the witches, Macbeth worried that he would have to commit a murder to gain the Scottish crown. He seems to have gotten used to the idea, as by this point the body count has risen to alarming levels. Now that the first part of the witches’ prophecy has come true, Macbeth feels that he must kill his friend Banquo and the young Fleance in order to prevent the second part from becoming realized. But, as Fleance’s survival suggests, there can be no escape from the witches’ prophecies.

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Macbeth enters, and Macduff asks him if the king is awake, saying that Duncan asked to see him early that morning. In short, clipped sentences, Macbeth says that Duncan is still asleep. He offers to take Macduff to the king. As Macduff enters the king’s chamber, Lennox describes the storms that raged the previous night, asserting that he cannot remember anything like it in all his years. With a cry of “O horror, horror, horror!” Macduff comes running from the room, shouting that the king has been murdered
. Macbeth and Lennox rush in to look, while Lady Macbeth appears and expresses her horror that such a deed could be done under her roof. General chaos ensues as the other nobles and their servants come streaming in. As Macbeth and Lennox emerge from the bedroom, Malcolm and Donalbain arrive on the scene. They are told that their father has been killed, most likely by his chamberlains, who were found with bloody daggers. Macbeth declares that in his rage he has killed the chamberlains.

Macduff seems suspicious of these new deaths, which Macbeth explains by saying that his fury at Duncan’s death was so powerful that he could not restrain himself. Lady Macbeth suddenly faints, and both Macduff and Banquo call for someone to attend to her. Malcolm and Donalbain whisper to each other that they are not safe, since whoever killed their father will probably try to kill them next. Lady Macbeth is taken away, while Banquo and Macbeth rally the lords to meet and discuss the murder. Duncan’s sons resolve to flee the court. Malcolm declares that he will go south to England, and Donalbain will hasten to Ireland.

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The witches are vaguely absurd figures, with their rhymes and beards and capering, but they are also clearly sinister, possessing a great deal of power over events. Are they simply independent agents playing mischievously and cruelly with human events? Or are the “weird sisters” agents of fate, betokening the inevitable? The word weird descends etymologically from the Anglo-Saxon word wyrd, which means “fate” or “doom,” and the three witches bear a striking resemblance to the Fates, female characters in both Norse and Greek mythology. Perhaps their prophecies are constructed to wreak havoc in the minds of the hearers, so that they become self-fulfilling. It is doubtful, for instance, that Macbeth would have killed Duncan if not for his meeting with the witches. On the other hand, the sisters’ prophecies may be accurate readings of the future. After all, when Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane at the play’s end, the soldiers bearing the branches have not heard of the prophecy.

Whatever the nature of the witches’ prophecies, their sheer inscrutability is as important as any reading of their motivations and natures. The witches stand outside the limits of human comprehension. They seem to represent the part of human beings in which ambition and sin originate—an incomprehensible and unconscious part of the human psyche. In this sense, they almost seem to belong to a Christian framework, as supernatural embodiments of the Christian concept of original sin. Indeed, many critics have argued that Macbeth, a remarkably simple story of temptation, fall, and retribution, is the most explicitly Christian of Shakespeare’s great tragedies. If so, however, it is a dark Christianity, one more concerned with the bloody consequences of sin than with grace or divine love. Perhaps it would be better to say that Macbeth is the most orderly and just of the tragedies, insofar as evil deeds lead first to psychological torment and then to destruction. The nihilism of King Lear, in which the very idea of divine justice seems laughable, is absent in Macbeth—divine justice, whether Christian or not, is a palpable force hounding Macbeth toward his inevitable end.

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The supposed Lady Macbeth effect or Macbeth effect is a priming effect said to occur when response to a cleaning cue is increased after having been induced by a feeling of shame. The effect is named after the Lady Macbeth character in the Shakespeare play ; she imagined bloodstains on her hands after committing murder.

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In Act 5 Scene 1, a doctor and a gentlewoman observe how lady Macbeth  repeats the act of killing Duncan. She is in a trauma like sleepwalk with her eyes open. She speaks, acts and sleeps exactly like she did after killing Duncan. As well as that she washes her hands for more than 15 minutes without an sink infront of her. She imagined bloodstains on her hands trying to wash them off.

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It helped me by simply structuring our plan together and planning it step by step.

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in our group the main 'dream' was a more modern version rather than an old time play. We have transformed this play from an old banquet with lords and ladies to an modern sleepover party with popular kids and their girlfriends.

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We were a great team and did everything together, just the part where Pascal wrote the script new since someone told him to wasn't our best part.

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How Effective was the modernization? Did it have any challenges?

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How Effective was the modernization? Did it have any challenges?

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for the challenges just look at 'what did you learn about performing Shakespeare?'

The effects of the modernization really showed in the understanding of the audience. They understood the play in a different sight (someone told me) .

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What did you learn about performing Shakespeare?

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What did you learn about performing Shakespeare?

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I learned about performing Shakespeare that it was really hard to modernize it into usual language since it was very old and had words that did not have similar words in modern language (Shakespeare made up some own words)

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It was successful because the other class enjoyed the play and our class did too, it was a Nice difference from the other usual class activities.

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Yes it definitely was!

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I personally did not really overcome the challenges but as I was the evil witch is was kind of okay, because I had to laugh at Macbeth for acting so childish while I was controlling everything.

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One of the biggest challenge was to stay calm and serious, while a teddy bear was acting a ghost...(it was riddiculously funny)! when the audience laughed it was hard to stay focused because you wanted to laugh as well.

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In my opinion it went very well, the audience ( the other English group) was very entertained. We had lots of fun and most of us acted very well.

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We prepared a play. we prepared it different from the original, a bit more modern ( a sleepover party) here are the evaluation questions and the fitting answers:

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Everybody fell a sleep (even the Guards) after partying and drinking.

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Macbeth has murdered Duncan, Lady Macbeth takes away the bloody dagger from her husband, who is already beginning to regret what he has done.

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' why should I serve my best friend Macbeth, he achieved being king through lies, cheats and trust. I do not want to serve a king like that.

But on the other hand, the witches prophecy to Macbeth became true. why shouldn't mine either. I wouldn't be king but I would be the father of kings.

Macbeth may be king now, but his following children will not be.'

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Banquo is suspicious about how all three Things that the witches said became true. he thinks that Macbeth cheated.

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Macbeth hires a murderer to kill Banquo and Fleance ( banquos son)

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Actress---judie dench 1979

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xHlngY6Bgk

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Duncan announces, that his older son Malcom will heir his throne after his death

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Duncan hears reports of Cawdor’s execution from his son Malcolm, who says that Cawdor died nobly, confessing freely and repenting of his crimes.

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It could mean that he could be less wealthy than Macbeth but still having greater joy in life.

This could mean that his sons would be king but he will never be.

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Macbeth declares his joy but notes to himself that Malcolm now stands between him and the crown.

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Macbeth is starting to believe what the Witches told him

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Macbeth is told that he is going to be Thane of Cawdor

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She tries to persuade him to murder king Duncan, while she is talking about it in the time she is kissing him as well. this has a staying affect on Macbeth as this is a nice experience. And he rememberers the talk as positive.

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Plans are made for Duncan to dine at Macbeth’s castle that evening, and Macbeth goes on ahead of the royal party to inform his wife of the king’s impending arrival.

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After the witches prophecy, he is very confused. He is most likely thinking that  the witches are mentally broken. He does not believe them. (at first)

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this clip is effective because it shows how lady macbeth slowly turns more and more evil. Her sudden stops in the sentences and the Dark and quiet voice are  starting to become creepy.

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lesser than Macbeth and greater

Not so happy ,yet much happier

Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none

So all hail Macbeth and Banquo

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FIRST WITCH:
Oh hail Macbeth, thane of Glamis

SECOND WITCH:
Oh hail macbeth, thane of Cawdor

THIRD WITCH:
Oh hail Macbeth that shalt be king here after.

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I chose this picture because it shows how I think the witches are about to vanish infront of Banquo and Macbeth

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I chose this picture because this shows best how I think the witches talked about the future to Macbeth and Banquo.

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I chose this picture because because it shows best how the three witches mix potions and tell spells.