Act 5

Question 1

(V, I, 20-21)
Gentlewoman

Answer 1

“to seem thus washing her hands: I have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour.”

• outside observation of LM guilt and paranois, losing mind and out of control

Question 2

(V, I, 25-28)
Lady Macbeth

Answer 2

“Out, damned spot! Out, I say! — Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?”

• reoccuring blood image,
• repetition,
• imperative command/frantic state,
  irony - underestimating the weight of their deeds, haunted by the consequences of their ambition

Question 3

(V, I, 36-37)
Lady Macbeth

Answer 3

“Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not
sweeten this little hand.”

• Prose,
• reoccuring blood image
• irony for earlier hubris, guilt overwhelming
• water and now not all the perfumes oa arabia are neough to find the guilt for her sins

Question 4

(V, I, 51-55)
Doctor

Answer 4

“unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds. More needs she the divine than the physician.”

• metaphor indicates extent of LM moral decay, her only salvation would come from the heavens
• actions out of the ordinary have consequences equally as absured and damaging

Question 5

(V, ii, 16-22)
Angus

Answer 5

“Now does he feel His secret murders sticking on his hands… Now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe Upon a dwarfish thief.”

• metaphor for which observation of Ms noticeable grief
• kingship never truely fit M, and is falling from his title like simile

Question 6

(V, iii, 39-44)
Macbeth

Answer 6

“Cure her of that. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff’d bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?”

• that in death LM is still plagueed by their actions

Question 7

(V, v, 19-28)
Macbeth

Answer 7

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”

• repetition for urgencu for tomorrow, and an end “out
• nihilistic view on importance of life and living to one’s fullness

Question 8

(V, viii, 4-6)
Macbeth

Answer 8

“Of all men else I have avoided thee; but get thee back; my soul is too much charged With blood of thine already.”

Question 9

(V, viii, 6-8)
Macduff

Answer 9

“I have no words: My voice is in my sword, thou bloodier villain Than terms can give thee out!”

• M id irredeemable, his death is the only freedom to his tyranny

Question 10

(V, viii, 13-16)
Macduff

Answer 10

“Despair thy charm, And let the angel whom thou still hast served Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripp’d.”

• indivates abiding by the prophecies he is one to causeM harm,
• linked with divine justic, angel who guides/serves warrants his actions

Question 11

(V, viii, 27-34)
Macbeth

Answer 11

“I will not yield, / To kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet, Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane, / And thou opposed, being of no woman born, / Yet I will try the last: before my body / I throw my warlike shield: lay on, Macduff. / And damned be him who first cries ‘Hold enough!’”

• despite achnowledged failure, M stands tall
• finally displays courage and strength so desired early on
• after obliterating his moral fortitude through violence, M holds fast to his newfound morals, indicating eventual honor

Question 12

(V, viii, 54-55)
Macduff

Answer 12

“Hail, king! for so thou art: behold, where stands The usurper’s cursed head: the time is free.”

Question 13

Malcolm

Answer 13

“the dead butcher and his fiend-like queen”

• simile (fiend = evil forces) + metaphor (common murderer), no names = immediate fall in status