Hoping to fulfil the prophecy of three witches, Lady Macbeth persuaded her husband to kill King Duncan and take his crown. Now Macbeth feared a traitor in every shadow, and he murdered his comrade-in-arms, Banquo. But when Banquo’s ghost reproached him, rather than repent the desperate king turned to the witches again.

The witches poisoned Macbeth’s mind against Macduff, and he tried to kill him and all his family. But Macduff escaped, and brought an English army against Macbeth in revenge. The soldiers cut branches from Birnam wood as camouflage, fulfilling the last of the witches’ forebodings, and with that Macduff slew the unhappy king.

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