At the beginning of the play, Macbeth's friend Banquo receives another prophecy from the witches: he himself will not rule Scotland, but his descendants will. The Stuarts who ruled at the time the play was written were considered precisely the descendants of Banquo. Only forty years would pass and one of Banquo's descendants, Charles I Stuart, would turn into Macbeth: his tyrannical policies would provoke the Civil War and Revolution in England, and he, like Macbeth, would be beheaded.

The main room was well heated: the mother added coal to the boiler, the heat went up the chimney into the fireplace. The figurine in the bag is curled up into a ball and does not move. Erhai understood: his mother called him to untie the bag also so that he could “remove the veil from the bride.” Moreover, the old woman did not dare to touch the bag herself: who knows what would jump out of there. The Japs surrendered, but, whatever one may say, people were still afraid of them.