TRYING TO UNDERSTAND MACBETH

• the witches are super weird and seem really devious
• Shakespeare is trying to portray Macbeth as a noble man by murdering a traitor
• but at the same time, showing how ruthless he could be
• Macbeth begins his ascension by being named the Thane of Cawdor
• Macbeth and Banquo encounter the witches and wonder about what their may happen in their futures
• Macbeth learns that he has been crowned the thane of Cawdor
• The king along with Macbeth and Malcolm rejoice over the old thane's death
• the king announces that Malcolm will be named Prince or Cumberland
•  Macbeth, in an aside, talks about how Malcolm is his only obstacle to becoming king
• Macbeth meets with Lady Macbeth and tells her about the prophecy
• She goes crazy and says that Duncan needs to die and ends up asking to lose any chance or reproduction.
• King Duncan and Banquo arrive at the Macbeth palace and greet Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth doesn't want to kill the King at the moment, but Lady Macbeth questions his manhood and comes up with a plan to do it anyways.

So from the very beginning of the play, Shakespeare begins it with a weird vibe that only gets weirder as the play progresses. When he describes Macbeth's battle, it did a really good job of establishing Macbeth as a man who gets things done. To me, Macbeth seems like he would be loyal, but his great ambitions will not be able to be contained, and he'll end up doing something really stupid. To make things worse, he and Banquo meet the witches and they tell them that Macbeth will be king. This makes Macbeth more ambitious, along with being named the thane of Cawdor. I think that Macbeth would probably really struggle with killing the King, but his wife seems really out of it and only really thirsts for power. She has a lot of qualities similar to Macbeth as to getting things done, but at this point in the play she seems a lot crazier than him and she will only cause more trouble for Macbeth.