English explanation Ross, a thane, walks outside the castle with an old man. They discuss the strange happenings of the past few days: it is daytime, but dark outside; an owl killed a falcon; and Duncan's beautiful, well-trained horses behaved wildly and ate one another. Macduff emerges from the castle and tells Ross that Macbeth has been made king by the other lords and MacBeth will go to Scone to be crowned. Macduff adds that …showed first 75 words of 711 total…

…showed last 75 words of 711 total…play Overall this scene is portrayed as dark and gloomy, just as the play itself. It is a fairly quiet scene in which is basically a conversation between to Scottish men. It may have even been put the play to slow down the chaos, before the plays tempos rises again. The catch to the scene is that by the conversation itself, these two men are re-enacting the brutal killing of Duncan as we have explained.