act 5 notes Flashcards
how many scenes does act 5 have
8 scenes
what is a taper
candle
what are the 3 things that lady macbeth confesses in her sleep
duncan’s murder
lady macduff’s murder
banquo’s murder
“why it stood by her. She has light by her continually. Tis her command”
her?
FL?
lady macbeth
irony because she has no light in her. no good
“yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him”
speaker?
old man?
lady macbeth
duncan
“the thane of fife had a wife… What will theese hands ne’er be clean?”
speaker?
talking about what
lady macbeth talking about the murder of macduff’s family
“Here’s the smell of the blood still. all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”
speaker
signifigance?
lady macbeth
reversal of roles. when macbeth kills duncan she says that water shall wash the blood
“I tell you yet again, banquo’s buried. He cannot come out on’s grave”
lady macbeth
“remove her from the means of all annoyance”
speaker?
meaning?
doctor, thinking lady macbeth might commit suicide
who are the scottish rebels
Menteith, caithness, angus, lennox
what imagery is this quote
he cannot buckle his distempered cuse within the belt of rule”
clothing
“hang loos about him, like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief”
giant?
thief?
giant-duncan
thief- macbeth
“meet we the medicine of the sickly weal”
medicine?
speaker?
weal?
caithness says this
medicine-malcolm
weal-macbeth
to dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds”
speaker?
flower?
weeds?
lennox
flower- malcolm
weeds-macbeth
“bring me no more reports. let them fly all!”
macbeth