The Theme Of Macbeth

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of the witches.
Banquo resists any thoughts that might hasten the witches‘ prophecy that his children will be kings. Lady Macbeth, however, strengthens her husband to kill the king and they accomplish it. When the murder is discovered, the king’s sons, Malcolm and Donalbain, seeing a similar fate for themselves, flee Scotland. Macbeth proceeds to Scone, where he is crowned as Duncan’s successor to the throne.
Banquo half-suspects Macbeth of Duncan’s murder but accepts an invitation at the new king’s fiest and attends it with his son Fleance. Macbeth employs two murderers to kill both in an attempt to avoid the second part of the witches‘ prophecies. They kill Banquo but Fleance escapes.
Macbeth decides to find the witches to demand further assurances. They answer him with a procession of ghostly appearances: an armed head which warns him against Macduff; a child covered in blood which says that „(…) none of a woman born shall ...

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learns that Lady Macbeth has died, possibly by suicide. In despair, he goes forth to battle and encounters Macduff, who destroys his last confidence by admitting that he was „(…) from his mother’s womb untimely ripp’d (…)“ – he „(…) was not of woman born (…)“. With this part of the prophecy no longer the protection it seemed, Macbeth dies at Macduff’s hands. Macduff brings the head of Macbeth to Malcolm and hails the son of the murdered Duncan as the new King of Scotland.
By „the theme“ of Macbeth one means the principal idea of the play, an idea that is seen in dramatic setting probably in every act of ...

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