Timeline: Macbeth Timeline

Jan 1, 1414

witches meeting

(Line 10-12)"Act 1 Scene 1
all - paddock calls;-anon. fair is foul and foul is fair, hover through the fog and filthy air."
the witches are going to meet with Macbeth and Banquo and because of this meeting they end up putting Macbeth in a dangerous path

Period: Jan 1, 1414 to Jan 21, 1414

Macbeth

Jan 2, 1414

Macbeth receives the thane of cawdor title

(act 1 scene 2 L 77)"what he hath lost noble macbeth hath won."

Jan 3, 1414

witches prophecy

(Act 1 Scene 3 L-53) "all hail, macbeth! that shalt be king hereafter." this prophecy leads macbeth to think he will be a great king and the thane of Cawdor.

Jan 4, 1414

king duncan names his heir

(act 1 scene 4 L 44-45)"our eldest, Malcolm,whom we name hereafter the prince of Cumberland."

Jan 5, 1414

king duncans death

(act 2 scene 2 Line 54-56) "Macbeth - still it cried, "sleep no more!" to all the house:"Glamis hath murder'd sleep:and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more: Macbeth shall sleep no more!" this message Macbeth received from the ghost signifies Macbeth slow descent into madness.

Jan 6, 1414

macbeth is crowned king

(act 2 scene 4 L 40-41)"he is already named, and gone to scone to be invested."

Jan 7, 1414

storms and major weather events with animals change severely

(act 2 scene 4 L 7-9) "By the clock ’tis day,
And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp.
Is ’t night’s predominance or the day’s shame."
Ross and an old man are conversing about how severely the world is reacting with Duncans death such as owls eating eagle or horses eating each other.

Jan 8, 1414

macbeth hires murderers

(Act 3 scene 2 L 128-130)"So is he mine; and in such bloody distance
That every minute of his being thrusts
Against my near’st of life." this is a discussion between Macbeth and the first two murderers he hires to kill Banquo and Fleance.

Jan 9, 1414

Banquo is murdered

(Act 3 Scene 3 L 25-26) "O treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!
Thou may ’st revenge. O slave!" in this scene Banquo is murdered by the murderers Macbeth had sent to kill him and his son Fleance, but Fleance escapes.

Jan 10, 1414

Macbeth is seeing Banquos ghost

(Act 3 scene 4 L-83) "Prithee, see there! Behold! Look! Lo! How say you?" Macbeth is having another vision before him because of lack of sleep and is now disturbing his guests with worry for him.

Jan 11, 1414

macbeth gets three new prophecies

macbeth barges in on the witches to make them give another prophecy while doing so he insults them and they give him false hope of living without being killed

Jan 13, 1414