- play/story line is brutal and cynical
- taken from Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles
- Holinshed's Chromicles of Scottish History
- written to please King James I
- King James I wrote Demonolgy or Daemonolgie
- about witches; written in 1599
- Holinshed's version
- Macbeth was a valiant man
- killed people without hesitant
- Shakespeare's version
- Macbeth was intelligent, ambitious, spirited, gentle, thoughtful
Plot
- MacBeth cuts a person (enemy) open from the belly button to the throat
- Lady Macbeth prays to the devils to posses her mind, make her breast milk turn into bile, and make her husband more evil
- Lady Macbeth makes fun of her husband; rather smash a baby's skull until it's brains come out than have a husband that won't kill
- Lady Macbeth has a sedative; doesn't tell her husband
- uses it later (not on husband)
- Both kill a sleeping man, benefactor and a guest
- drugged the guards; killed them after
- horses eat each other while they are alive
- Duncan kills someone King Malcolm
- Duncan becomes King
- Macbeth kills King Duncan
- still becomes King
- (King) Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost
- doesn't want to bury people; leave them out for crows to eat
- Macduff's son jokes that there are more bad guys than good guys
- person comes in and stabs Macduff's son to death
- Lady MacBeth dies (suicide?)
- Macbeth's head found on a stick
- Malcolm kills him in the battle/fight
- Malcolm now King of Scotland (Duncan's son)
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