| Who calls the doctor for Lady Macbeth? | her gentlewoman (servant) |
| What is wrong with Lady Macbeth? | she is sleepwalking |
| Why is Lady Macbeth sleepwalking? | she is quilty |
| What events are Lady Macbeth talking about during her sleepwalk? | the murders of Duncan, Banquo, and Lady Macduff |
| What is Lady Macbeth doing when she is sleepwalking? | washing her hands |
| Why is Lady Macbeth washing her hands? | to get rid of the blood (guilt) |
| What does Lady Macbeth want Macbeth want to stop doing? | killing people |
| What can Lady Macbeth still smell? What does she say about the smell? | she can still smell the guilt and all the perfumes in Arabia cannot get rid of the small |
| Can the doctor help Lady Macbeth? If not, why? | no because it is not medical – it is a problem with her conscience not her body |
| What is Lady Macbeth afraid of? | the dark |
| What does Lady Macbeth need beside her bed? | a lighted candle |
| What does the doctor tell the gentlewoman to do? Why? | remove sharp objects away from lady macbeth so she would not kill herself |
| What does the gentlewoman know? | Macbeth was involved in the murder of Duncan, Banquo, and Lady Macduff |
| What is the gentlewoman afraid of? Why? | being killed or hanged because she knows about the murders |
| Why are the soldiers following Macbeth? | they are following him because he commands them not love him |
| What are Macbeth’s soldiers going to do? | leave Macbeth and join England |
| What do the soldiers call/describe Macbeth? | a tyrant, dwarf, thief |
| What do the soldiers mean when they said Macbeth cannot buckle his distempered cause? | he cannot control his army |
| What do Macbeth’s soldiers mean when they call him a dwarf thief? | he is unfit to be king and stole the crown |
| Who is Macbeth being mean and aggressive to? | his servant |
| what does Macbeth call his servant? | whey face |
| What does Macbeth say about getting old? | when getting old you need friends, love, honor, obedience |
| Instead of getting the things when getting old, what does Macbeth have instead? | curses that are not loud but deep |
| Why does the doctor come to Macbeth? | to tell him he cannot cure Lady Macbeth because he cannot cure thoughts |
| Where is the English army? | birnam wood |
| What does Malcolm order the soldiers to do? Why? | cut down a tree and carry it in front of them- it would hide the size of their army- birnam wood would move up dunsinane hill |
| Who dies? How? | Lady Macbeth- she kills herself |
| why does Macbeth insist on disregarding the advancing armies? | because of the witches’ prophecies |
| What does Macbeth say about our tomorrows? | each tomorrow is the same |
| What does Macbeth say about yesterdays? | it leads us to our death |
| Life is a poor actor who does what? | goes on stage for an hour and then leaves and no one remembers the actor (life is meaningless) |
| Life is what kind of tale and told by whom? | a meaningless story told by an idiot |
| What does out, out brief candle mean? | life is short |
| What was Macbeth think when he said, “Out, out brief candle” | he wants to die |
| What led Macbeth wanting to die and life is meaningless? | Lady Macbeth’s death |
| Who does Macbeth kill? | Young Siward |
| What does Macduff say to the heavens? | he wants to kill Macbeth for justice or his wife and children’s ghosts will haunt him forever |
| What does Macbeth find out about Macduff? | he was not born from a woman (C section) |
| Who dies in the end? | Macbeth |
| How does Macbeth die? | Macduff kills him and cuts his head off |
| Who is now king? | Malcolm |
Macbeth || Act V Notes
November 25, 2019