can anybody tell me the whole story of "Macbeth" ?

Answer 1

William Shakespeare can.

Answer 2

Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespeare, blah, blah, blah...

Go pick up the book at the library.

Answer 3

The whole story (As short as possible) is of a man who becomes victim of the fortune. He meets three witches in a forest, who give him some ambitious news, his wife plans in getting the ambitons fulfilled the wrong way, he gets punished in the end.

Answer 4

MacBeth betrayed and killed the king and the royal line and became the king, he killed other people who got in his way. Eventually the kingdom rose up and killed him. That's the "hole story"

Answer 5

Try reading the book. It's a great story.

Answer 6

to cut a very long story short just go here;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth

Answer 7

there is a wonderful film of the play by roman polanski.

Answer 8

yes here it is::


The play opens with the three Witches ("Weird Sisters") discussing their upcoming meeting with Macbeth. Macbeth, Thane of Glamis, and Banquo, both generals for King Duncan of Scotland, have just defeated an invasion of Scotland by the allied forces of Norway and Ireland led by the rebel Macdonwald.


Macbeth and Banquo with the witches by Johann Heinrich Füssli.As Macbeth and Banquo wander into a heath the three Witches greet them with prophecies. The first witch hails Macbeth as "Thane of Glamis", the second as "Thane of Cawdor", and the third that he shall "be King hereafter". The Witches also inform Banquo he shall be father of a line of kings. While they wonder at these prophecies, the witches disappear, and the Thane of Ross — a messenger from the King — arrives and informs Macbeth of his new title, Thane of Cawdor. The first prophecy is thus fulfilled (as Macbeth is already Thane of Glamis). Immediately Macbeth begins to harbour ambitions of becoming king.

Macbeth writes to his wife about the witches' prophecies. Duncan decides to stay at Macbeth's castle at Inverness and Lady Macbeth hatches up a plan to murder him and secure the throne for her husband. While Macbeth raises concerns about the regicide, Lady Macbeth eventually manages to persuade him.

In the night, Macbeth kills Duncan and Lady Macbeth arranges bloody daggers to frame Duncan's servants for the murder. Early the next morning Lennox, a Scottish nobleman, and Macduff, the loyal Thane of Fife, arrive. The porter opens the gate and Macbeth leads them to the king's chamber, where Macduff discovers Duncan's corpse. In a sham fit of fury Macbeth murders the servants before they can protest their innocence. Macduff is immediately suspicious of Macbeth, but fearing for their lives, Duncan's son Malcolm flees to England, and his brother Donalbain to Ireland. With the rightful heirs gone, Macbeth assumes the throne as new King of Scotland because of his relation to the dead King.

Despite his success, Macbeth remains uneasy regarding the prophecy that Banquo would be progenitor of kings. Macbeth therefore sees Banquo as an element jeopardising his rule. Macbeth invites Banquo to a royal banquet that he is holding that night and asks when Banquo and his son, Fleance, will return to his castle. In secret he then incites murderers to kill Banquo and Fleance. While they succeed in cutting Banquo's throat, Fleance is able to escape. At the banquet, Banquo's ghost enters and sits in Macbeth's place. Macbeth is the only person who can see it, and his display of terror and his monologue cast doubt on his guiltlessness.

Disturbed, Macbeth goes to the Witches to receive more prophecies. They conjure up three spirits which tell him to "beware Macduff", but also that "none of woman born shall harm Macbeth" and he will not "vanquish'd be until Great Birnam wood to high (Dunsinane Hill) shall come against him". Since Macduff is in exile, Macbeth massacres everyone in Macduff's castle, including Macduff's wife and children.

Lady Macbeth eventually becomes racked mentally with guilt from the crimes she has committed. In a famous scene, she sleepwalks and tries to wash imaginary bloodstains off her hands.


Lady Macbeth sleepwalking by Johann Heinrich Füssli.In England, Malcolm and Macduff plan for an invasion of Scotland. Macduff leads a camouflaged army with Malcolm and Englishman Siward (the Elder), the Earl of Northumbria, against Dunsinane Castle. Macbeth delivers a famous nihilistic soliloquy ("Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" etc.) upon learning of Lady Macbeth's death (the cause of it is unexplained although it is generally assumed that she committed suicide). Meanwhile, Malcolm's army advances as though in a moving wood, as they have cut off the trunks of the forest while moving as camouflage.

A battle ensues, culminating in Macduff's confrontation of Macbeth. Macbeth boasts that he has no reason to fear Macduff, as he cannot be killed by any man born of woman. Macduff declares that he was born by Caesarean section (before his mother's actual delivery)—and was therefore not "of woman born". Too late Macbeth realises the Witches have been equivocating. A fight ensues, which ends with Macduff beheading Macbeth offstage, thereby fulfilling the last of the witches' prophecies.

In the final scene of the play, Malcolm is crowned as rightful King of Scotland, suggesting that peace is restored to the kingdom. However, the witches' prophecy concerning Banquo, "Thou shalt [be]get kings", was known to the audience of Shakespeare's time to be true, as James I of England was supposedly a descendant of Banquo.

Answer 9

Go to this website...its a summary

Answer 10

Shakespeare can, if you ask nicely.