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    Macbeth is a Scottish general who is influenced by three witches' prophecies to become ambitious for the throne. He murders King Duncan and takes the crown, after which he becomes a tyrant, killing any who threaten his rule. His wife Lady Macbeth, who urges him to commit regicide, is also ambitious but is later overcome with guilt. The witches continue manipulating events to destroy Macbeth and others.

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    Macbeth is a Scottish general who is influenced by three witches' prophecies to become ambitious for the throne. He murders King Duncan and takes the crown, after which he becomes a tyrant, killing any who threaten his rule. His wife Lady Macbeth, who urges him to commit regicide, is also ambitious but is later overcome with guilt. The witches continue manipulating events to destroy Macbeth and others.

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    Macbeth is a Scottish general who is influenced by three witches' prophecies to become ambitious for the throne. He murders King Duncan and takes the crown, after which he becomes a tyrant, killing any who threaten his rule. His wife Lady Macbeth, who urges him to commit regicide, is also ambitious but is later overcome with guilt. The witches continue manipulating events to destroy Macbeth and others.

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    The story explores the themes of ambition, guilt, and the corruption of power through the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Macbeth is influenced to commit regicide based on prophecies by three witches and his wife's encouragement, which leads to his downfall.

    Lady Macbeth is Macbeth's ambitious wife who encourages him to kill King Duncan so he can become king. However, after the murder she is overcome with guilt and eventually commits suicide.

    The three witches plot against Macbeth through prophecies and manipulation. They lead Macbeth to believe he is immortal and encourage his murders of Duncan and later Banquo through misleading visions of the future.

    Macbeth is a scottish general, and the thane of Glamis.

    His actions are influenced by the three witches. Macbeth


    is a powerful man and a brave soldier, but he is not very
    virtuous. He is easily influenced into murder to fulfill his
    ambitions to the throne. Once he commits his first crime,
    and is crowned King of Scotland, he embarks on further
    atrocities with ease. Macbeth proves himself better suited
    for the battlefield than the throne because he lacks the
    skills necessary to rule without being a tyrant. Macbeths
    response to every problem is violence and murder.

    She is Macbeths wife. She is a deeply ambitious woman


    who lusts for power and position. Early in the play she
    appears to be the ruthless one out of her and Macbeth, as
    she urges Macbeth to kill Duncan for the crown. After the
    bloodshed begins she falls victim to guilt. Eventually, she
    commits suicide. Lady Macbeth lacks all humanity, to the
    public eye she is an innocent host.

    Three women who plot against Macbeth using


    charms, spells, and prophecies. They led
    Macbeth to blindly believe that he is immortal.
    They also led him to kill Duncan and order the
    deaths of Banquo and his son. The play leaves
    the witches true identities unclear. They take
    delight in using their knowledge of the future
    to manipulate and destroy human beings.

    Banquo is a brave, noble general. According to the


    witches prophecies, his children would have inherited the
    Scottish throne. Similar to Macbeth, Banquo has ambitious
    thoughts, but he does not act on them. Banquo sort of
    represents the path that Macbeth chose not to take, that
    makes sense giving that Banquo is the one who haunts
    Macbeth.

    The good King of Scotland that Macbeth


    murders in his ambitions for the crown. Duncan
    is the model of a ideal king. His death
    symbolizes the destruction of order in Scotland.

    A Scottish nobleman that is a threat to Macbeths


    kingship from the beginning. He eventually becomes
    the leader of the crusade set to unseat Macbeth. The
    goal of the crusade was to return the throne to the
    rightful owner, Malcolm. Macduff also wants to avenge
    the death of his wife and son.

    The son of Duncan and heir to the throne. His restoration


    to the throne symbolizes the return of order in Scotland.
    Malcolm becomes a serious challenge for Macbeth with
    Macduffs aid. Prior to this, he seems weak and uncertain
    of his own power after he and Donalbain flee Scotland after
    their fathers death.

    The goddess of witchcraft, she helps the


    witches work their mischief on Macbeth.
    She can be viewed as the ruler of the
    three witches.

    Fleance is Banquos son. He survives Macbeths attempt to


    murder him. At the end of the play his whereabouts remain
    unknown. Maybe he will prove the witches prophecies to be
    true and come to claim the Scottish throne.

    Lennox and Ross were both Scottish noblemen.

    A group of ruffians who were hired by Macbeth to kill;


    Banquo, Fleance (whom they fail to kill), and Macduffs
    wife and children.

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