If you have enjoyed this video, please consider making a small donation: br See also my tips on reading Shakespeare’s LANGUAGE: You might also find my Romeo and Juliet series interesting: br br This video is a line-by-line walkthrough guide for William Shakespeare’s Macbeth: Act 1, Scene 5.br br I provide a close reading of the entire scene, including:br — Detailed explicationbr — Commentary br — Literary analysis br br All commentary is supplemented by in-text, line-by-line study notes designed to help students:br — Prepare for GCSE, A-Level, IB, and AP evaluationbr — Prepare for general high school and college quizzes, exams, and essaysbr — Generate ideas for analysis essaysbr — Participate knowledgeably in class discussionsbr Click here to download the annotated text of Macbeth: br This video discusses :br br PLOT:br — Lady Macbeth is excited to read Macbeth’s letter about the witches’ prophecies.br — She worries that Macbeth is “too full of the milk of human kindness" to murder Duncan, so she resolves to encourage him.br — She learns that Duncan is coming to visit, and calls on evil spirits to “unsex” her, make her strong enough to murder him.br — Macbeth arrives home and listens excitedly to Lady Macbeth’s plans for murder.br br CHARACTER:br — Lady Macbeth: ambitious; manipulative; negative mother figure; knows her husband well; defines manhood as pure masculine strength, minus feminine compassionbr — Macbeth: revealed as generally good, moral, “full of the milk of human kindness,” childlike, incapable of deceit; wholly under Lady Macbeth’s spell; child trying to please cold, demanding mother.