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Macbeth Act 5 Flashcards

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1
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  • Nature imagery
  • Sleep is natural, sleepwalking is unnatural - mark of the devil?
  • Disruption of the natural order
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“A great perturbation in nature.”

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  • Light and dark imagery
  • LM is afraid of the dark - bad things happen in the dark
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“She has light by her con-/tinually, ‘tis her command.”

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  • Shakespeare’s stage craft
  • LM must be rubbing hands together
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“Look how she rubs her hands.”

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LM knows she’s going to hell

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“Hell is murky”

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  • Contrasts to earlier LM - mental decline
  • Shakespeare’s comments on the human condition - guilt and conscience will torture you
  • Rhetoric
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“What, will these hands ne’er be clean?”

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  • Feminity
  • Contrasts to her earlier characterisation
  • LM weakness - gaining feminine attributes through guilt - spirits didn’t do their jobs therefore did they exist?
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“All the per-/fumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”

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  • Hell’s gate - remember the porter scene
  • Going to Hell
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“Knocking at the gate.”

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  • Big idea of play - Shakespeare’s key message
  • Was saying it before in strength and is now saying it in weakness
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“what’s done/cannot be undone.”

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  • Situational irony
  • God will not forgive Macbeth’s and is punishing them
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“God, God forgive us all.”

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10
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  • Macbeth is overly confident
  • Still believes witchcraft
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“Till Birnam Wood remove to Dunsinane,/I cannot taint with fear.”

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Calling servant a coward when servant is only trying to help him - change in character therefore characterisation

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“Thou lily-livered boy.”

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  • Knows he will either be very successful or die
  • Victory or death
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“Will cheer me ever or disseat me now.”

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  • Blood imagery
  • Glimpse of former soldier
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“I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked.”

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14
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  • Refers to LM as a patient not wife
  • Brutal, mean character
  • Fall from grace
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“How does your patient, doctor?”

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  • Rhyming couplet
  • False confidence
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“I will not be afraid of death and bane,/Till Birnam Forest come to Dunsinane.”

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  • Macbeth is commanding
  • No cure for their crimes
  • Lack of emotion from Macbeth
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“Cure her of that”

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17
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  • No-one is loyal to Macbeth as he is a bad king
  • Bird imagery
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“The thanes fly from me”

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Characterisation of Macbeth

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“confident tyrant”

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  • Macbeth is on his own, the soldiers he has are only there to do the right thing
  • metaphor
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“And none serve with him but the constrainèd things/Whose hearts are absent too.”

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  • Strong, united army fighting with a cause
  • Birnam wood coming to Dunsinane
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“Let every soldier her him down a bough,/And bear’t before him”

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21
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  • Death of LM
  • Shakespeare’s stage directions
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“a cry within of women”

22
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  • Changed, emotionless
  • Lost all feeling and sensibility
  • characterisation
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“I have almost forgot the taste of fears”

23
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  • Does not care about his wife dying
  • No convenient time for death
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“She should have died hereafter”

24
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  • Light and dark imagery
  • Talking about life
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“Out, out, brief candle”

25
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  • Existential crisis
  • Life is meaningless - knows he might die
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“Signifying nothing.”

26
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  • Macbeth’s monologue
  • Alliteration
  • Not a good Christian - a Jacobean audience will dislike Macbeth after this monologue - Macbeth is saying that life is meaningless but Christians believed you live to serve God
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“And all our yesterdays have lighted fools/the way to dusty death.”

27
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  • Glimpse of former soldier
  • Rhyming couplet
  • Will fight to the end, won’t give up
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“Ring the alarum bell! Blow wind, come wrack;/At least we’ll die with harness on our back.”

28
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  • Blood imagery
  • Trumpet blasts - sound imagery
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“Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.”

29
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  • Nature imagery
  • Knows he is likely to lose the battle
  • Determination
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“I cannot fly,/But bear-like I must fight the course.”

30
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  • Macbeth’s name is cursed
  • Macbeth is the devil
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“The devil himself could not pronounce a title/More hateful to mine ear.”

31
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  • Characterisation of Macbeth
  • Describing Macbeth
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“Abhorrèd tyrant”

32
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  • Macbeth has new confidence
  • Nothing can defeat him - believes he is invincible
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“But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn”

33
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  • Macduff is avenging his family and saving Scotland
  • Macduff is very honourable
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“My wife and children’s ghost will haunt me still”

34
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  • Won’t commit suicide
  • Suicide is giving up?
  • Believes he can win and fight this out
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“Why should I play the Roman fool and die/on mine own sword?”

35
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  • Taunting Macduff with the death of his family
  • Blood imagery
  • Don’t want to shed anymore Macduff blood
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“My soul is too much charged/ with blood of thine already.”

36
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  • Metaphor
  • Macduff is fighting for his family and for Scotland
  • Actions speak louder than words
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“My voice is in my sword.”

37
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  • Macbeth is arrogant and overconfident
  • No-one can harm him - believes witches
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“I bear a charmèd life which must not yield/ to one of woman born”

38
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  • Harsh language and tone
  • Revelation that Macduff was not born of woman
  • line stands alone, increased impact
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“Untimely ripped.”

39
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  • Witches influence
  • Echo of witches
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“double sense”

40
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  • Macduff is not giving in
  • Wants a fight
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“Then yield thee coward”

41
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  • Everyone will know who you truly are
  • You will meet your end
  • beginning of play - thane of cawdor defeated
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“Here may you see the tyrant.”

42
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  • Neither one will give in
  • Both strong soldiers
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“And damned be him that first cries, ‘Hold, enough!’ “

43
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  • Shakespeare’s stage directions
  • Macbeth is dead
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“Macbeth slain”

44
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  • Sound imagery
  • Knave is dead, it’s over
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“And so his knell is knolled.”

45
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  • Gory sign of the times
  • Shakespeare’s stage directions
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“Enter Macduff, with Macbeth’s head”

46
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Spoken together - however contrasts to witches - spoken strongly and as a united force

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“Hail, King of Scotland.”

47
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Macbeth’s head - just like previous Thane of Cawdor

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“Th’usurper’s cursèd head.”

48
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  • Characterisation of the Macbeth’s
    Killed so many innocent people
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“Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen.”

49
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  • LM committed suicide
    Shakespeare’s comment on human condition - LM too weak to handle guilt? effects of treason
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“By self and violent hands/took off her life.”

50
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  • Hope for Scotland, order restored
  • Part of 2 rhyming couplets that will tie everything together and bring play to a close
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“That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace/We will perform in measure, time, and place.”

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