Act 5 Flashcards

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(V, I, 20-21)
Gentlewoman

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“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
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(V, I, 25-28)
Lady Macbeth

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“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
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(V, I, 36-37)
Lady Macbeth

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“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
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(V, I, 51-55)
Doctor

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“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
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(V, ii, 16-22)
Angus

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“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
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(V, iii, 39-44)
Macbeth

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“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
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(V, v, 19-28)
Macbeth

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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
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(V, viii, 4-6)
Macbeth

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

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(V, viii, 6-8)
Macduff

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“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
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(V, viii, 13-16)
Macduff

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“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
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(V, viii, 27-34)
Macbeth

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“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
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(V, viii, 54-55)
Macduff

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

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Malcolm

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“the dead butcher and his fiend-like queen”

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