Act 4&5 Quotes Flashcards
Foul whisp’rings are abroad; unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles; infected minds to their deaf pillow will discharge their secrets. More needs she the Devine than the physician god, god forgive us all
Speaker?Context?Meaning?Dramatic Significance?
S: Doctor
C: At Macbeth’s castle in Lady Macbeth’s room with a doctor and gentlewomen int the middle of the night
M: Lady Macbeth does need a doctor, she needs a god because of all her sins and guilt she is feeling are mentally sickening her
DS:
Theme of guilt: Lady Macbeth is not sick, but guilt-ridden
Appearance vs. Reality: The truth is revealing itself
Irony: Lady Macbeth is suffering of guilt even though she told Macbeth at the beginning of the play that he was a coward for feeling guilty about murdering Duncan
Well, march we on to give obedience where ‘‘tis truely ow’d; Meet we the med’cine of the sickly weal, And with him pour in our country’s purge, each drop of us
SCMDS?
S: Caithness
C: At the countryside near Dunsinane with thanes and English soliders
M: Caithness is saying that everyone will help rid Scotland of Macbeth, no matter how many of us it takes
DS:
Motif of sickness: to cure Scotland of the disease Macbeth has spread
Blood Imagery: Every drop of blood that it takes to rid Scotland of Macbeth
He has no children all. All my pretty ones? Did you say all? All? What all my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop?
SCMDS?
S: Macduff
C: Macduff is at the English Castle with Malcolm and Ross along with the English army preparing for war
M: All my children are dead, and their mother? Oh how could Macbeth, and he does not even have children to exact my revenge upon
DS:
Animal Imagery: Calling his children chicken because chickens are the only birds that cannot fly, which symbolizes his children not being able to escape evil Macbeth
Nemesis: Macduff will exact revenge on Macbeth because he faced a personal loss
I shall do so; But I must also feel it as a man; I cannot remember such things that were most precious to me. Did heaven look on, that would not take their part? Sinful Macduff, they were all struck for thee. Naught that I am, not for their own demerits but for mine, Fell slaughter on their sounds. Heaven rest them now.
SCMDS?
S: Macduff
C: Macduff is with Malcolm and Ross near the English Castle along with the English army who are preparing to battle with Macbeth.
M: Malcolm is telling Macduff to dispute his families death and turn it into rage like a man, but Macduff is saying that as a man he should also accept his feelings as he is sad that his entire family has been murdered. He also states how it was his own fault that his family died as he left them. Overall he just feels guilty and sad, and is mourning the loss.
DS:
Theme of Masculinity: Malcolm tells Macduff to dispute the loss like a man but Macduff questions the theme of Masculinity because he says that to be a man I must accept my emotions and face them too
Pathos: we feel sorry that Macduff has lost his family, and we can actually see his sadness as he feels immense guilt as if it was entirely his fault
Out, out brief cancel! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that stunts and frets his Hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.
SCMDS?
S: Macbeth
C: Macbeth is at his castle with Seyton and his soldiers
M: Macbeth is basically saying that life has no meaning because he has now committed so much murder he is almost emotionless and accepts he is going to die
DS:
Light Imagery: life is like a candle, it does not last very long, and once that flame of desire or ambition is gone then you have no more purpose
Pathos: We feel slightly bad for Macbeth because it’s almost as if he regrets what he has done because he realizes that his life has no purpose because even if he wins this battle who in his kingdom will actually serve him because they like him
I think our country sinks beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day, a gas is added to her wounds
SCMDS?
S: Malcolm
C: Malcolm is at the English castle with Macduff and Ross along with English Soldiers, preparing for battle
M: Malcolm is stating how bad Scotland has become because of Macbeth. He says that every day Macbeth is king Scotland with continue to worsen.
DS:
Theme of blood and violence: As long Macbeth remains king Scotland is bleeding or “dieing” because every day he creates another gash by doing something bad.
Personification: Malcolm is giving the whole of Scotland human traits by saying it is weeping of saddness
The Thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now? What, will these hands ne’er be clean? No more o’that. You mar all with this starting.
SCMDS?
S: Lady Macbeth
C: Lady Macbeth is sleepwalking at Macbeth’s castle, and a doctor and her gentlewomen are watching her
M: Lady Macbeth is feeling guilty because Macduff’s wife is dead, along with others and she realizes that her hands will never be clean of the blood of the people whom she helped murder. She also says that she does not want part in these deeds anymore.
DS:
Irony: At the beginning of the play Lady Macbeth states that a little water shall wash them entirely of killing Duncan as the blood will be gone. But here she is having hallucinations of blood on her hands and panicking because she cannot get rid of it.
Motif of blood: Lady Macbeth will always have blood on her hands
Despair thy charm and let the angel whom thou still hast serv’d Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripp’d
SCMDS?
S: Macduff
C: Macduff is on the battlefield at Dunsinane fighting Macbeth
M: Macduff reveals that he was not like other men born from his mother’s birth parts but was instead cut out from her stomach
Irony: Macbeth was so confident that no man would be able to harm him because whatever the witches say comes true, and they said anyone who is born of women cannot hurt you. However, even though it was still true Macbeth will end up getting killed because of being too overconfident and trusting what the witches said.
Theme of Supernatural: Macbeth put all his faith in the witches by took the prophecies in his own way
To bed, to bed there’s knocking at the gate, come come, come, give me your hand; what’s done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, go bed.
SCMDS?
S: Lady Macbeth
C: Lady Macbeth is sleepwalking at Macbeth’s castle while a doctor and her gentlewomen are watching her
M: She is remembering when she took part in Duncan’s murder and when she told Macbeth to go to bed quickly so that no one would see them up. The knocking is from when the lords were knocking at the door to get the king
DS:
Repetition: Repetition because Lady Macbeth is anxious and has a guilty conscience
Appearance vs. Reality: at the beginning of the play Lady Macbeth said to appear alright and to just forget about the murders but here she is, in reality, not being able to forget and still traumatized.
The time approaches that will with due decision make us know what we shall say we have and what we owe; thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate, but certain issue strokes must arbitrate. Towards which, advance the war.
SCMDS?
S: Siward
C: Siward is with Malcolm, Macduff, the thanes and soldiers of England at Birnam woods
M: Siward is saying that the war must happen because it is the only way they can stop Macbeth’s evil reign
DS:
Theme of blood and violence: War is the only way and blood must be shed in order to defeat Macbeth
Rhyming couplet: (know,owe) (relate, arbitrate)
Hang out our banners in the outward walls; the cry is still, “they come.” Our castle’s strength will laugh a siege to scorn; here let them lie till famine and the ague eat them up. Were they not forc’d with those that should be ours, we might have met them careful, beard to beard, and beat them backward home.
SCMDS?
S: Macbeth
C: Macbeth is at his castle with sexton
M: Macbeth is telling seyton to hang the banners on the castle walls, signalling he is ready for war but also to let them sit outside and die of disease while trying to get into the castle. Macbeth says that they would have met the face to face if only soldiers of his did not run away and join he English army.
DS:
Motif of sickness: Macbeth says let the diseases that he has made eat away at the army as they try to get past the defences
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Now near enough; your leafy screens throw down and show like those you are. You, worthy uncle, shall with my cousin your right noble son Lead our first battle. Worthy Macduff and we shall take upon’s what else remains to do, according to our order.
SCMDS?
S: Malcom
C: Malcolm is talking to Siward and Macduff with the English army holding branches, preparing to attack Macbeth
M: Malcom is telling them to throw down their branches, and attack. Siward and Young Siward lead the first battle and then Macduff and Malcolm will handle everything else
DS:
Theme of supernatural: Birnam woods has now moved to Dunsinane, he prophecy has come true
Foreshadowing: Foreshadows Macbeth’s fatal end because the witches said Macbeth will not be harmed until the forest moves, and it has.
The tune goes manly, come go we to the king; our power is ready; is ripe for shaking, and the powers above on their instruments. Receive what cheer you may: The night is long that never finds the day.
Malcolm:
C: Malcolm along with Macduff, lords, and the English army are near the English Castle preparing to go to war with Macbeth
M: Malcolm is motivating the army telling them that they are powerful enough, and that Macbeth is very vulnerable right now, which is the perfect time they should attack. He is also saying that even the supernatural is with them and and that when the new day comes they will fight Macbeth
DS:
Theme of Supernatural: Malcolm is saying that even the supernatural beings are with them
Motif Light vs. Darkness: By the next day they will go to fight with Macbeth
Through palaces and pyramids do slope their heads to their foundations. Through the treasure of nature’s Germans tumble altogether Even till destruction sicken: answer me to what I ask you
SCMDS?
S: Macbeth
C: Macbeth is in a deserted isolated place with thunder where he will see the apparitions
M: Macbeth is asking them to answer him, give him guidance, even if them saying the truth will cause bad things, he still needs advice.
DS:
Theme of destruction: Macbeth is saying no matter what happens from the witches helping him, he still needs the advice
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For it to govern? No, not to live. O nation miserable! With an untitl’d tyrant, bloody-sceptr’d, when shalt thou see thy wholesome days again, since that the truest issue of thy throne by his own interdiction
S: Macduff
C: Macduff is in England trying to convince Malcolm to come back to Scotland and be king
M: Malcolm is tricking Macduff to test his loyalty to Scotland by saying he would be a worse king then Macbeth, and it works, because Macduff gets tired and says that Scotland is doomed either way now.
DS:
Character Development: Malcolm of is now not as trusting as he was before
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