Act 5

Question 1

Attendant

Lady Macbeth cannot sleep without light by her side

Answer 1

She has light by her continually: ‘tis her command

Question 2

Lady Macbeth

Losing her mind

Answer 2

Out, damned spot: out, I say!

Question 3

Lady Macbeth

Thinking about Duncan’s murder - it is haunting her

Answer 3

Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?

Question 4

Lady Macbeth

She cannot clean her hands of the deed, despite what she thought earlier in the play

Answer 4

Will these hand ne’er be clean?

Question 5

Angus
Wondering if Macbeth can feel his grasp on the crown loosening and slipping away from him - the crown he stole, not earned

Answer 5

Now does he feel his title hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief

Question 6

Macbeth

Finds out Lady Macbeth is sick but he does not appear to care

Answer 6

Cure her of that

Question 7

Macbeth

Cocky as he relies on the prophecy - he cannot be harmed until the wood comes to Dunsinane

Answer 7

I will not be afraid of death and bane till Birnam Forest come to Dunsinane

Question 8

Seyton

Delivers the news of Lady Macbeth’s tragic end to Macbeth

Answer 8

The Queen, my lord, is dead.

Question 9

Macbeth

Lady Macbeth’s life has been extinguished. Life in general isn’t really real. You always end up in a grave.

Answer 9

Out, out, brief candle!Life’s but a walking shadow

Question 10

Macbeth
Illustrates impertinence and irritation at the fact that Lady Macbeth chose now to die, when he is in the process of preparing for battle

Answer 10

She should have died hereafter. There would have been time for such a word

Question 11

Macbeth
Begins to think about the apparitions prophecy and the fact that it may be coming true. What sounded so honest seems to be a lie

Answer 11

Begin too doubt th’equivocation of the Fiend that lies like truth

Question 12

Macbeth

He wishes to have an honorable death and face the battle head on

Answer 12

Blow wind, come wrack; at least we’ll die with harness on our back

Question 13

Macbeth

He is cornered and cannot flee, so he must persevere with the battle until the end

Answer 13

They have tied me to a stake: I cannot fly, but bear-like I must fight the course

Question 14

Malcolm

Describes Macduff, same as what was for Macbeth previously

Answer 14

Worthy Macduff

Question 15

Young Seyward

Macbeth’s name is the worse possible thing that he could hear

Answer 15

The Devil himself could not pronounce a title more hateful to mine ear

Question 16

Macduff

Enters final battle with Macbeth and wants him to turn and face him

Answer 16

Turn, Hell-hound, turn!

Question 17

Macbeth

Cocky, sadistically teasing Macduff about killing his family

Answer 17

My soul is too much charged with blood of thine already

Question 18

Macbeth

Cocky as he believes he is above Macduff and that Macduff cannot murder him

Answer 18

I bear a charmed life, which must not yield to one of woman born

Question 19

Macduff

Explains he was not born naturally, but from ripped out of his mother

Answer 19

Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped

Question 20

Macbeth

He will find to the end, even know the inevitable outcome

Answer 20

I will try the last

Question 21

Macduff

Enters the scene victorious with Macbeth’s head on a pole

Answer 21

Bwhold, where stnads th’ usurper’s curesed head

Question 22

Malcolm

Describing Macbeth and Lady Macbeth at end of the play. It appears Lady Macbeth died by committing suicide

Answer 22

Dead butcher and his fiend-like Queen (who, as ‘tis thought, by self and violent hands took off her life