act 5 study questions

Scene 1

1) What do the nurse (gentlewoman) and the doctor see?
lady macbeth sleepwalking and murmuring aboutt the bad things Macbeth has done
2) What does Lady Macbeth mean when she says, “Out, damned spot! Out, I say!...will these hands never be clean.” 
She sees the guilt and blood on her hands and is trying to wash it out.
3) What is wrong with Lady Macbeth at this point of the play?
she is overwhelmed by what macbeth has done and how he acts

Scene 2

1) What happens in this scene? What new characters are introduced? Why?
solders known as angus, caithness, they are shown to see there view of this situation.
2) What is the significance of the scene?
tells us about who's leading this army and what evil deeds macbeth is doing
3) What is meant when Caithness says, “Some say he’d mad; others that lesser hate him do call it valiant fury”?
those who like him feel thats he's mad, while those who don't feel he's purely insane.
Scene 3

1) How would you describe Macbeth’s attitude and mood in this scene?
Macbeth is completely confused since the witches stated he couldn't be harmed. to respond to this uprise he calls for his own army.
2) Why isn’t Macbeth afraid? Do his soldier’s seem afraid? Why or why not?
 Macbeth believes he's protected by what the witches said he can't be harmed by people born from woman. the solders feel worried that he's too cocky and that he's lost it.

Scene 4
1) What does Malcolm order the soldiers to do?
to hide most the solders in the trees so macbeth will get fake info on what his spies say.

Scene 5
1) What is meant when Macbeth says, “She should have died here-after”?
that se should've died after battle so Macbeth could mourn for her2) What is the significant of the following quote, “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is told no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing.” That life acts kinda like a mysterious illusion and people fill it with feelings and take most of the meaning away from it.

Scene 6

1) What is important about this scene?
It shows his solders prepare for battle

Scene 7

1) Who does Macbeth kill in this scene? What is significant about this death?
he kills swards son which reassures he is invincible due to the fact that he was born of a girl and died.

Scene 8

1) What happens in this scene?
2) Why does Macbeth lose heart in the fight against Macduff?
3) Who is named king at the end of the play?

Macbeth act 4 questions

4.1

1) What are the four visions that Macbeth sees?

A bloody kid, a kid now holding a tree in his hand and wearing a crown, 8 ghost kings along with banquo, lastly an armed head
2) Which visions does he misread or misunderstand and why?

 The armed head and bloody child
3) What news does Lennox bring Macbeth?

That Macduff has fled to England

4) What does Macbeth decide from Lennox’s news?

that he will head to his castle and kill all of Macduffs family
5) How might this scene be a possible climax for the play?
 It shows Macbeth's true colors to others and how his down fall has been fated.

4.2

1) Why does Shakespeare include a scene with Lady Macduff and her son?

Shows lady Macduff's feelings for her husband.
2) What is important about this scene?

reveals what happens to them for later knowledge
3) List one motif or symbol from this scene? Birds are mentioned

4.3

1) Why has Macduff come to England?

To talk with Malcome about macbeth
2) What is Malcolm’s fear in lines 10-19?

He worries that he will be given to macbeth from Macduff
3) Who does the lamb represent in these lines?

Macduff
4) What is significant in the lines “Angles are bright still, though the brightest 

fell./Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,/ yet grace must still look so.” Both Malcom and Macbeth were englands brightes angels, now Macbeth is compared to Satan and both have fallen.

5) What is significant in the line, “Bleed, bleed, pour country!”

 Describes how Scotland is dying slowly under Macbeth's rule and the treacherous tyranny.
6) What does Malcolm call Macbeth? What list of adjectives does he use?

A tyrant, murderous, liar, leech, and guilty of every sin.
7) How has Malcolm changed since Act II?

He finds himself scared and unworthy boy who isn't fit for being king from fear of being a terrible leader.
8) What is the atmosphere of this scene? Why is this important?

It goes from having a plan to take out Mavbeth and put a virtuous leader back on the rightful throne, but now Malcome doesn't want the throne so there plan will lead to nothing.
9) What news does the doctor bring? How is this symbolic to the scene, especially to Malcolm?

He says Macbeth has gods healing hands and was chosen. symbolic and ironic since Macbeth wasn't really chosen, and Malcome who is chosen lacks the confidence and compliments macbeths great leading.
10) How many men did England lend Macduff?

10,000
11) What does Macduff mean when he says, “But I must also feel it as a man.”

He must do whats necessarily despite losing his son and wife.