| What has Lady Macbeth doing while sleepwalking? | takes out paper from her closet, folds it, writes on it, reads it, and seals it up; she also seems as if she is washing her hands |
| What does Lady Macbeth request is always next to her? | a light(candle) |
| Why does Lady Macbeth need light next to her? | to shine light in the darkness and guilt of her world |
| What does Lady Macbeth say while sleepwalking? | that soldiers(Macbeth) should not be afraid because no one can lay guilt upon them(they’ve killed everyone who possibly could); there is an old man(Duncan) with a lot of blood in him; she says that the Thane of Fife(Macduff) had a wife; that she will never be guilt-free and that Macbeth needs to stop acting startled; her hands still smell like blood and always will; she tells herself to not be frightened because Banquo is buried; she hears a knocking at the gate and says “What’s done cannot be undone” |
| What does the doctor say about sleepwalkers? | some of them are able to learn from their mistakes and die holily |
| What does the doctor think about Lady Macbeth? | that she is possessed and that she needs a priest to help her |
| Who is missing from the battle? | Donalbain |
| Where are the soldiers meeting? | Birnam Wood |
| What does Caithness say about Macbeth? | some say he’s insane; other say it’s valiant fury; but he’s definitely out of control |
| What does Angus say about Macbeth’s soldiers? | that they are fighting because they have to not out of love of Macbeth |
| What does Mentheith say about Macbeth? | inside he condemns himself for all he’s done |
| What do they refer to Malcolm as? | the doctor who will cure our sick country(Scotland); the medicine of the sickly weal |
| What does Macbeth command the messengers to do? | stop giving him reports because he still believes in the prophecies |
| What does Macbeth say about his life? | he has lived long enough; he doesn’t have all the aspects of old age; he has people who honor him with words, but not hearts |
| Does Macbeth decide to fight? | yes; with an army behind him |
| What does Malcolm tell the soldiers to do at Birnam Wood? | to break the branches and hold them in front of them so Macbeth doesn’t know how many of them there are |
| What prophecy aligns with Malcolm’s orders at Birnam Wood? | it looks like the forest has gotten up and moved |
| How does Siward align with Macbeth? | says the only way to fix this problem is through violence |
| What is Macbeth’s plan in battle? | to fortify the castle so well that the soldiers can’t get in and end up starving |
| What does Macbeth say about fear? | he forgets what it feels like, because all the crimes he’s committed has caused him to become inhumane and unable to feel emotion |
| Who dies before battle? | Lady Macbeth |
| What is Macbeth’s reaction to Lady Macbeth’s death? | he is emotionless; says that she would have eventually died; says that life is an illusion of an actor who worries about performing and then is never heard of again |
| Who specifically says that the forest looks like it’s moving? | messenger |
| Who will lead the first battle on the English side? | Siward and his son |
| Who does Macbeth kill first in battle? | Siward’s son |
| Why is Macduff fighting in the war? | only to kill Macbeth; not the stupid soldiers |
| What do Siward & Malcolm say about Macbeth’s soldiers? | they are fighting on both sides and that they are trying not hurt them |
| What aligns Macduff with the prophecies? | his mother had a C-section(he technically was not born from a woman) |
| Who kills Macbeth? | Macduff |
| Who wins the battle? | the English(rebels) |
| What do Siward’s son’s wounds prove? | they are in the front; he died fighting not running away |
| What does Macduff carry after the battle? | Macbeth’s head |
| What does Malcolm, as King, name the thanes and kinsman? | earls |
| How did Lady Macbeth die? | she committed suicide |
| “Since his Majesty went into the field, I have seen her rise up from her bed…” | gentlewoman; explaining what she sees Lady Macbeth doing while sleepwalking |
| “A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching” | doctor; seeming(awake) vs. being(asleep) |
| “She has light by her continually. ‘Tis her command” | gentlewoman; light to shine in her dark world |
| “…action with her to seem thus washing her hands” | gentlewoman; Lady Macbeth is washing away her guilt, but can’t(she does it everyday for 15 min) |
| “Hell is murky” | Lady Macbeth |
| “The Thane of Fife had a wife” | Lady Macbeth; refers to Lady Macduff |
| “No more o’ that, my lord, no more o’ that. You mar all with this starting” | Lady Macbeth; saying that Macbeth will let others suspect with all his fear |
| “You have known what you should not” | doctor |
| “Heaven knows what she has known” | gentlewoman |
| “…smell of blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia…” | Lady Macbeth; saying that she is guilty and nothing can take that away |
| “The heart is sorely charged.” | doctor |
| “I would not have such a heart in my boson for the dignity of the whole body” | gentlewoman |
| “Yet I have known those which have walked in their sleep, who have died holily in their beds” | doctor |
| “…he cannot come out on’s grave” | Lady Macbeth |
| “There’s knocking at the gate” | Lady Macbeth |
| “What’s done cannot be undone” | Lady Macbeth |
| “Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles” | doctor; unnatural things bring about more unnatural things |
| “More needs she the divine that the physician” | doctor; says Lady Macbeth needs a priest more than a doctor |
| “To dew the sovereign flowers and drown the weeds” | Lennox; responsibility as a society is to help water people and to pull out the bad people |
| “I cannot taint with fear” | Macbeth; doesn’t care until prophecies come true |
| “The mind I sway by and the heart I bear shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear” | Macbeth; his courage will not waver by fear |
| “Go prick thy face and over-red thy fear, thou lily-livered boy” | Macbeth; to servant who tells him about the soldiers |
| “Seyton-I am sick heart” | Macbeth |
| “My way of life is fall’n into the sere, the yellow leaf” | Macbeth |
| “Honor, love, obedience, friends…but in stead curses” | Macbeth |
| “I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked. Give me my armor” | Macbeth |
| “To a mind diseased…memory a rooted sorrow…written troubles” | Macbeth to doctor |
| “Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff” | Macbeth to doctor |
| “Must minister to himself” | doctor to Macbeth |
| “Cast the water of my land, find her disease, and purge it to a sound and pristine health” | Macbeth to doctor |
| “I will not be afraid of death and bane till Birnam Forest come to Dunsinane” | Macbeth |
| “Were I from Dunsinane away and clear, profit again should hardly draw me here” | doctor; he does not want to be in Dunsinane |
| “I hope the days are near at hand that chambers will be safe” | Malcolm |
| “Let every soldier hew him down a bough and bear ‘t before him” | Malcolm to soldiers |
| “And none serve him but constrained things whose hearts are absent too” | Malcolm; Macbeth’s soldier fight by they are commanded to, not out of love |
| “Let our just censures attend the true even, and put we on industrious soldiership” | Macduff |
| “But certain issue strokes must arbitrate; towards which advance the war” | Siward; aligns him with Macbeth(violence to solve problems) |
| “Our castle’s strength will laugh a siege to scorn” | Macbeth |
| “Were they not forced with those that should be ours, we might have met them dareful, and bear them backward home” | Macbeth |
| “I have almost forgot the taste of fears…senses would have cooled to here a night-shriek…I have supped full with horrors…[fear] cannot once start me” | Macbeth; he has committed so many crimes that he does not feel fear |
| “The Queen, my lord, is dead” | Seyton |
| “She should have died hereafter” | Macbeth |
| “Last syllable of recorded time…yesterday’s have lighted fools the way to dusty death” | Macbeth |
| “That frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more” | Macbeth; compares life to a actor who fears going on stage and then is never found again |
| “I looked toward Birnam, and anon methought the Wood began to move” | messenger |
| “I ‘gin to be aweary of the sun and wish th’ estate o’ th’ world were now undone” | Macbeth; fear |
| “At least well die with harness on our back” | Macbeth; die fighting |
| “Let us be beaten if we cannot fight” | Siward |
| “Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death” | Macduff |
| “Tied me to a stake” | Macbeth |
| “Such a one am I to fear, or none” | Macbeth |
| “Thou liest, abhorred, tyrant. With my sword I’ll prove the lie thou speak’st” | Young Siward |
| “Weapons light to scorn brandished by man that’s of a woman born” | Macbeth |
| “If thou best slain, and with no stroke of mine, my wife and children’s ghosts will haunt me still” | Macduff |
| “Let me find him Fortune, and more I beg not” | Macduff |
| “The tyrants people on both sides do fight” | Siward; says that Macbeth’s soldiers are betraying him |
| “We have met with foes that strike beside us” | Malcolm |
| “My soul is too much charged with blood of thine already” | Macbeth |
| “I bear a charmed life” | Macbeth |
| “Was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped” | Macduff; saying he was not born from a woman |
| “Juggling fiends no more believed that plater with us in a double sense, that keep the word of promis to our ear and bear it to our hope” | Macbeth |
| “We’ll have thee as our rarer monsters are, painted upon a pole and underwit ‘here may you see the tyrant'” | Macduff |
| “Your son, has paid a soldiers debt. He only lived but till he was a man” | Ross |
| “They said he parted well and paid his score, and so, God be with him” | Siward |
| “I see thee compasses with thy kingdom’s pearl, whose voices I desire aloud with mine” | Macduff |
| “This, and what needful else that calls upon us, by the grace of grace, we will perform in measure time and place” | Malcolm |
Macbeth Act 5
November 8, 2019