Macbeth ReviewFill in the blanks.

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• At the beginning, Macbeth is a ____________ soldier.

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• The three witches start our story off by predicting that Macbeth will be ____________.

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• They also predict that Banquo’s sons will be __________________.

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• All this gets in Macbeth’s head, so he writes a letter to his wife telling her about the prophecies.

• She gets the great idea for Macbeth to _____________________.

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• Macbeth feels _______________ about her plan to kill King Duncan.

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• But he ends up killing him anyway, and then he feels really, really __________________.

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• He even hears voices that cry “Macbeth shall ______________!”

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• Lady Macbeth says ____________ “clears them of [the] deed.”

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• ______________ is a new guy who shows up at Macbeth’s castle looking to speak to Duncan, but instead finds him dead. He says to “ring the alarum bells!”

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• Duncan’s sons, Malcolm and Donalbain, decide to ______________ because they figure one of the men at Mac’s has murdered their father.

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• At the beginning of Act III, _______________ is having some serious suspicions about good old Macbeth.

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• Macbeth says “to be thus is nothing” and that he is wearing a “fruitless crown” because Banquo’s sons are predicted to be king.

• So, naturally Macbeth sets up a murder to kill ________________________.

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• So, __________________ is dead. But his _____________ isn’t!

Predict!

So if Macbeth is so overwhelmed by guilt for murdering his own king that he begins hallucinating, and his wife encourages him to forget all about the murder, but he believes so whole-heartedly in the witches prophecies that he hires assassins on his own accord to murder his best friend, Banquo, and his son, Fleance, and…

Also, we have evidence that though Macbeth feels guilt, he is obsessive about maintaining the throne, plus there’s big-time suspicion starting to float around his name…

What happens to the Macbeths now?