Macbeth Act 5_1

Macbeth Act 5

1. Supernatural

   • "A great perturbation in nature"
     • Scene 1 line 9 Doctor
     • Acknowledgement of the supernatural. Links to Banquo - everyone has come to the realisation.
   • "The Thane of Fife had a wife"
     • Scene 1 Line 38 Lady Macbeth
     • Single rhyme connects her to the witches, however, weak rhyme to show her loss of power.
   • "To bed, to bed, to bed"
     • 3 evil rhyme
     • Scene 1 Line 60 Lady Macbeth
   • "When all that is within him does condemn itself for being there?"
     • Scene 2 Line 24-5 Menteith
     • Macbeth's own nature is in rebellion against himself.
   • "Turn, hell-hound, turn"
     • Macbeth associated with supernatural creatures from hell, animal imagery, brutality, monstrosity
     • Scene 8 Line 3 Macduff
   • "And let the angel whom thou still hast serv'd"
     • Forces of good and evil
     • Scene 8 Line 14 Macduff
   • "And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd"
     • Witches reference
     • Scene 8 Line 19 Macbeth

2. The weather

   • "To dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds"
     • Metaphor for washing away Macbeth's evil taint he has left on the land - his evil has tainted even the pureness of nature
     • Scene 2 Line 30 Lennox

3. Mystery

   • "I think but dare not speak"
     • Doctor knows what is going on, can decipher Lady Macbeth's crazy, but he won't say anything because it is treason.
     • Scene 1 Line 71 Doctor

4. Insanity

   • "Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and afeard"
     • Transformation from a strong character to mentally weak.
     • Scene 1 Line 32 Lady Macbeth
   • "Out, damned spot! Out I say."
     • Physical representation of her guilt and madness. Spot appearing on her hand that cannot be removed.
     • Scene 1 Line 31 Lady Macbeth
   • "She has light by her continually, 'tis her command"
     • Darkness which used to comfort and protect her, now has become something she fears and stays in the light.
     • Scene 1 Line 20 Gentlewoman

5. Murder

   • "One, two"
     • First Duncan and then Banquo
     • Scene 1 Line 31 Lady Macbeth
   • "His secret murders sticking on his hands"
     • Macbeth has been found out
     • Scene 2 Line 17 Angus