Shakespeare makes tension by making the things that the side characters or main characters do something quite brutal. For instance at the beginning of the play Macbeth was a incredible warrior and was said to use his sword to stab his enemy and “drags it from their navel to the chaps”. Also the witches decided to curse a woman and her husband along with the people on the ship with him and the husband and the men were doomed to starve to death just because the woman didn’t give the witch a chestnut.

He also added dramatic irony because there are things in the play that only the audience would know about until the characters found out about it like King.  Duncan’s murder , The witches curse , Banquos death , Macbeths fate and more. This means that more tension is added because a big scene in the play would have been uncovered and this allows things in the play to flow and the scenes play out better.

The use of fate in Macbeth generally comes from the witches because the witches tell Macbeth what his fate was, if not said he wouldn’t have had such bloodlust to kill Duncan. If he wasn’t told about it he would have just waited out his life normally.

More tension is added near the start of the play when Lady Macbeth received a letter from macbeth about his prophecy, Lady Macbeth wanted to kill the king for the quicker way and Macbeth just wanted to wait it through and see what happens meaning they have opposing desires for most of the play. “When I burned in desire to question them further” probably means she wants to know how it happens.

Also the Prophecys are a big part of how macbeth unfolds because the entire reason that Duncan dies in the first place. The witches told him his fate and when lady macbeth is informed she becomes impatient for that fate to come by itself and this caused macbeth to kill Duncan.

The play is based on dramatic scenes and this means that alot of tension like in soliloquies it’s pretty dramatic because there was a giant predicament when macbeth had to decide whether or not to kill Duncan or to let him live.