![]() Act 1, scene 3 The three witches greet Macbeth as “Thane of Glamis” (as he is), “Thane of Cawdor,” and “king hereafter.” They then promise Banquo that he will father kings, and they disappear.Duncan orders the execution of the rebel thane of Cawdor and sends messengers to announce to Macbeth that he has been given Cawdor’s title. Act 1, scene 2 Duncan, king of Scotland, hears an account of the success in battle of his noblemen Macbeth and Banquo.Act 1, scene 1 Three witches plan to meet Macbeth.Macduff kills Macbeth and Malcolm becomes Scotland’s king. ![]() He learns that the promises are tricks, but continues to fight. Malcolm and Macduff lead an army against Macbeth, as Lady Macbeth goes mad and commits suicide.Macbeth confronts Malcolm’s army, trusting in the Weïrd Sisters’ comforting promises. Macbeth has Macduff’s wife and children murdered. They comfort him with ambiguous promises.Another nobleman, Macduff, rides to England to join Duncan’s older son, Malcolm. Macbeth determines to consult the Weïrd Sisters again. At a royal banquet that evening, Macbeth sees Banquo’s ghost appear covered in blood. Fearing that Banquo’s descendants will, according to the Weïrd Sisters’ predictions, take over the kingdom, Macbeth has Banquo killed. When Macbeth arrives at his castle, he and Lady Macbeth plot to assassinate King Duncan, soon to be their guest, so that Macbeth can become king.After Macbeth murders Duncan, the king’s two sons flee, and Macbeth is crowned. Three “Weïrd Sisters” appear to Macbeth and his comrade Banquo after a battle and prophesy that Macbeth will be king and that the descendants of Banquo will also reign. Entire Play Macbeth, set primarily in Scotland, mixes witchcraft, prophecy, and murder.What were everyone else’s experiences of maths this morning? And of course geography? Friends of mine who sat the honours maths paper seemed pretty happy, let’s hope for an equally fair paper in the morning. As for the comparative (hateful, useless mess of a question) I might flick through Jane Eyre… At least one female poet has to come up…right? As for Macbeth I think the plan will be learn lots of quotes, and somehow manipulate them into each and any theme that’s asked. I think I’ll revise Bishop and Rich, and depend on my existing knowledge of Walcott as a ‘safety net’. Now it’s onwards and upwards for English 2 tomorrow morning, (I do love that phrase Jennie) and I can’t wait for it to be over simply so we can all stop talking about it. I never did study ‘sequences and series’, it appealed to me even less than the other questions, so my attempt resulted in the aforementioned garbage. ![]() I attempted the eight questions on the paper, but I know for a fact that at least one is complete garbage. However do watch this space, as it would be most paradoxical if I ‘crashed and burned’ over the next week or so, or if I report back in August having gotten 5 CAO points. I’ve come to think that by the time the 17th rolls round I won’t have even realized that the leaving started, never mind the fact that it will be over by then. No one was hyperventilating at school this morning, there were no exclamations of joy or groans of dismay following the paper, just a casual “ah sure that was grand, wasn’t it?” here and there. I’m not saying it’s not stressful, as I know that some people are under a lot of pressure, but in my experience the pres/mocks were much more melodramatic than today’s events. Ordinary level maths paper one served only to further my belief that the lead-up to the leaving cert is much more intense than the actual exams themselves.
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