Vocabulary - 5 uses of 'out' - 🎭 Macbeth part 1

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Hello, I'm Mariam. Today's story was written as a play hundreds of years ago and is sometimes
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known as the Scottish play. It involves fighting, witches and a man called… Macbeth!
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We begin with three cackling witches who are meeting Macbeth, a Scottish nobleman who's
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been out fighting in a great battle. The witches predict that he will become Thane of Cawdor
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and King of Scotland and that the descendants of his friend Banquo, will become kings – what
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a prediction!
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Banquo thinks this a joke but Macbeth is excited by the idea and guess what? Macbeth is actually
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made Thane of Cawdor by King Duncan, as a reward for his bravery. Macbeth's wife, Lady
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Macbeth, who's back at home, hears of the news and decides to set out to help him become
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King too by any means she can. Firstly, she persuades him to kill King Duncan. Macbeth
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does this by stabbing him in his sleep. Nobody else knows who committed this murder and so
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Macbeth is crowned King of Scotland.
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So two out of the three witches' predictions have come true – but he's worried that the
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third prediction, about Banquo's descendants becoming kings, will also become true. So,
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cruelly, he attempts to kill his friend Banquo’s son. However, Banquo's son escapes.
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Then Macbeth is haunted by Banquo's ghost and receives worrying predictions from the
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witches. Everything swirls around in his head and he is out of his mind with worry and fear
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that the truth about what he has done will get out.
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Well I'd go mad if all that happened to me. Things go from bad to worse for Macbeth,
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as you'll find out if you join me again for part two of the story. See you again soon.
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