 Hello and welcome back to another lesson. Now, what I wanted to do within this fairly brief lesson is actually to summarize Macbeth, the entire play in five minutes. This lesson is actually going to be very useful for you. If you're studying this entire play in advance of your mock exams or the final GCSEs, having being able to take a step back and look at what the sequence of events are within the play in a nutshell is really useful in terms of your revision. Okay, so let's get started. The play starts off with Macbeth winning a war against the previous Sane of Cordo. It starts off with us knowing that there's a war in Scotland caused by the Sane of Cordo, but Macbeth, who's very brave, valiant and very loyal to his king, he wins this war. And as he's heading back from this war through the woods with his friend Banquo, who fought alongside him, they meet the witches, the witches tell Macbeth, hail Macbeth, Sane of Cordo, hail Macbeth, king hereafter. In other words, they prophesy to Macbeth that he's going to be Sane of Cordo and then king. However, they also tell Banquo that you're not going to be king, but your children will be kings. Okay, then the witches disappear. And Macbeth, who's really taken by these predictions, these prophecies, then writes to his wife, Lady Macbeth, who's in the castle, and he tells her of these prophecies. And separately, we realise Lady Macbeth, who's now at their home, their castle, actually wants to, wishes for Macbeth to become king. Okay, so she really plots. She's really happy to hear about these prophecies and she wants to plot in order to influence Macbeth to kill the king in order so that she also can be queen. Then she successfully influences Macbeth when he returns. Okay, so she tells him, look, Macbeth, you've firstly been promoted now, Sane of Cordo by King Duncan. So he's coming over. This is a perfect time to kill him. And she manages to minute and influence him to kill the king. She uses his masculinity against him. And once Macbeth agrees to this plot to kill the king, he feels quite guilty and sees a floating dagger. However, this floating dagger does not deter him. This dagger actually leads him to King Duncan's room where he murders him as he is sleeping. And once King Duncan is killed, his sons don't trust the situation. They feel like treachery is still around. Therefore, Malcolm and Donald Bane, his sons flee, leaving Macbeth to take the crown for himself. And once he is crowned, he decides to have Banquo murdered by killers. However, Banquo, even if he's murdered, his son flees on escapes, which further triggers Macbeth's paranoia. And he later, during his coronation, sees the ghost of Banquo, which is his second hallucination. Separately, we learn that Macduff distrusts Macbeth and he flees to England. Now Macbeth at this stage is very consumed as his ambition is quite corrupt. So he goes to see the witches to know about his future. And they show him three apparitions. The first, which is an armored head, tells him beware Macduff. The second apparition, which is a bloody child, tells him that no one or born of woman can harm him. And the third and final apparition, which is a crowned child with a tree in its hand, tells him that he can't be defeated until Great Burnamood moves to High Dunstanane Hill. This leads Macbeth to send killers to kill Macduff as well as his family. However, these killers find his wife and son who they murder, but Macduff is up in England. Therefore, Macduff's family is killed, but Macduff is a survivor. Separately, Macduff in England ends up plotting a rebellion with Malcolm against Macbeth because they realize he's at the root of all these problems in Scotland. And he later learns that his family has been killed and this gives Macduff additional inspiration to kill Macbeth. Then we find that Lady Macbeth, as Macbeth becomes increasingly consumed as an ambition, she then becomes sidelined. So Macbeth even forgets about her and she gradually becomes quite guilty about all the terrible things she's done and she starts seeing hallucinations of spots of blood on her hands. This leads her to really reflect on all the killing she has caused. She can't live with herself because of the guilt and she commits suicide. And the play ends with a massive war between Macbeth and his troops as opposed to Malcolm and Macduff's troops. And Macduff meets and murders Macbeth, chops his head off and Malcolm is finally crowned the next king of Scotland. So that's really it when it comes to understanding the play Macbeth. And especially the key events. So I would suggest try your best to really memorize the sequence of events, especially if you're revising for this play and you don't have very much time. Thank you so much for listening and I hope that helped.