 If you're an English ETSC student who struggles with knowing what the hell happens in Macbeth in this video is for you I'm gonna summarize the entire play in a nutshell so that you can know exactly what happens in Act 1 all the way to Act 5 Now remember in Act 1 essentially this is where we first meet the witches and they say that they're gonna cause chaos in Scotland Once peace comes back and how do they cause chaos when they meet Macbeth and Banco? They prophesied to Macbeth that he's gonna be king and they told Banco that his kids are gonna be king This of course plants a seed of ambition in Macbeth's mind. Macbeth then writes to his wife and Lady Macbeth plots and schemes on how she can influence him to develop more ambition Once he meets his wife again after the battle Lady Macbeth Finally influences him and convinces him to kill King Duncan. Now in Act 2 Macbeth follows a floating bloody dagger and Kills King Duncan, but he feels immediate regret after however, Lady Macbeth tells him man up and Step into your power as king. Of course remember that it's Macduff that discovers the dead body of King Duncan When King Duncan's son hear of his death both Malcolm and Donald Bain flee leaving Nobody to inherit the crown and this leads to Macbeth being crowned king now in Act 3 This is where we see Macbeth's coronation ceremony and he remembers the second prophecies of the witches Which is that Banco's kids will be king so he hires murderers to murder Banco and his son Flayon's the murderers Succeed in killing Banco, but Flayon's escaped and when they report this information to Macbeth He gets so stressed out that he lucidates and sees the ghost of Banco during his Banquet that in Act 3 now in Act 4 we find that Macbeth has completely changed gone from being loyal to being super greedy for power However, his wife is also changed His wife is now increasingly being sidelined as Macbeth now goes on this killing rampage He then goes to meet the witches because he wants to know what other threats there are and they tell him to be where Macduff Therefore he arranges for Macduff and his family to be killed the murderers arrive in Macduff's castle They find his wife and son and they kill him, but they don't find Macduff who has fled to England by this stage Now in Act 5 Lady Macbeth has become so guilty because of all the murderers that she caused After influencing Macbeth to develop ambition therefore she sees spots of blood on her hands before she commits suicide As she's so stressed out and guilty about her terrible actions However, Macbeth is now completely consumed with greed. Also, he has Alienated everybody. Everybody has started realizing actually it's Macbeth that's caused all these killings And of course Malcolm and Macduff raise a rebel army against him. They advance to Scotland from England There's a huge war Macbeth who thinks is indestructible Realizes that because Macduff is not born of woman he can actually kill him Macbeth then learns his lesson a bit too late That nobody should ever believe the witches before he is slain and the crown is restored back to Malcolm