Macduff and Malcolm pay a visit to the awesome English king, Edward the Confessor, and start plotting with the English soldiers how to save Scotland from Macbeth's tyranny. Naturally.īy now, people are starting to get a little suspicious. The one about Macduff has him a little worried, though, so he kills off Macduff's family. Macbeth breathes a sigh of relief with #2 and #3, since those are obviously impossible situations and mean that he's effectively safe. He pops in on the Weird Sisters for another prophesy, which comes in three parts: (1) watch out for Macduff (2) No man born of woman is going to hurt him and (3) Don't worry until Birnam Wood (a forest) moves to Dunsinane.
Things go downhill for Macbeth, who's more haunted than an episode of Ghost Hunters. Macbeth's not about to let someone bump him off the throne so, he hires some hit-men to take care of Banquo and his son, the unfortunately named Fleance. Macbeth starts to worry about the witch's prophecy that Banquo's heirs will be kings. Macbeth is named king and things are gravy. King Duncan's kids, Donalbain and Malcolm, find out what's happened, they high tail it out of Scotland so they can't be murdered too. When Macduff (yeah, we know, there are more "Macsomebodies" in this play than an episode of Grey's Anatomy) finds the king's dead body, Macbeth kills the guards and conveniently accuses them of murdering the king. His ambitious wife, Lady Macbeth, prods him into acting like a "man" and killing King Duncan when the poor guy comes to Macbeth's castle for a friendly visit.
While Macbeth is waiting around for "chance" to come along and make him king, he starts getting restless. At this rate, the play will be over before lunch. Sweet! That takes care of the first prophecy. The next thing we know, a guy named Ross shows up to say that, since the old Thane of Cawdor turned out to be a traitor and is about to have his head lopped off and displayed on a pike, Macbeth gets to take his place as Thane of Cawdor. Just as Banquo is pouting about being left out, the witches tell him that he'll be father to a long line of future kings of Scotland. Just then, he and his good pal Banquo run into three bearded witches (the "weird sisters"), who rhymingly prophesy that Macbeth will be named (guess what?) Thane of Cawdor and King of Scotland. Understandably, he's feeling pretty good about himself. He's prancing home on a dark and stormy night after defending King Duncan in battle with some skilled enemy-disemboweling. We start with some creepy witches cackling about some guy named "Macbeth," and then cut to post-battle, where we learn that this Macbeth has been kicking serious tail in battle-so much that King Duncan has decided to give him the title Thane of Cawdor.
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