Month: December 2014

In Macduff’s castle in Fife, Lady Macduff comforts and is comforted by her young son, who displays a courage beyond his years when confronted with the possibility that his father has turned traitor. Although warned by the Thane of Ross to escape before it is too late, Lady Macduff is encountered by Macbeth’s henchmen, who brutally kill first her child and (as the audience learns in the following scene) her.

In this scene Macbeth returns to the weird sisters and boldly demands to be shown a series of apparitions that tell his future. The first apparition is the disembodied head of a fighter, who seems to warn Macbeth of a bloody revenge at the hands of Macduff. The second is a blood coverd child who comforts Macbeth with the news he cannot be killed by any man “of woman born.” The third is a child wearing a crown, who promises that Macbeth cannot lose in battle until Birnam wood physically moves towards his stronghold in Dunsinane.

Lady Macbeth reads her husband’s letter before welcoming home Macbeth and preparing to receive the King. Lady Macbeth enters the castle alone with a letter. Also Lady Macbeth uses a soliloquy in the text which suggests that she wishes that she was evil, and that she wishes she was poisonous. The soliloquy she says is “That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here” she means that she wants to be a boy and not a woman because she wants to be king

In this scene the first witch and Hecate are talking throughout the scene. They are talking. He asks the witch to bring her best spell and the witch is telling him that she is going to make the best spell, a really really powerful. She is going to create a spell so good that it is going to drive Macbeth into confusion.

characters in the play are

hecate

first witch