Macbeth Act V

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MacbethAct V Important Quotes
Soo Ji Kang Natalie Rabb Rhett Martincevic Solange
Levy Eun Jin Sun
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Agenda

• Act V Quiz
• Important Quotes and their Significance
• Scene Summaries (1-8)
• Enactment of Act V
• Discussion/Quick Write

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Important Quotes

• Look like the innocent flower, But be the
  serpent under it.(1.5.76-78).
• Is this a dagger which I see before me, the
  handle toward my hand?
• (2.1.44-45).

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Important Quotes

• Come, you spiritsThat tend on mortal thoughts,
  unsex me here... (1.5.47-48)

• Fair is foul, and foul is fair... (1.1.12)

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Important Quotes

• We have scorched the snake, not killed
  it.(3.2.15).
• It will have blood they say blood will have
  blood (3.4.151).

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Quotes Continued(4 more quote slides)

• Out damned spot, out I say!
• (5.1.37)
• I have lived long enough. My way of life is
  falln into the sere, the yellow leaf...
• (5.3.26-27).

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Quotes Continued

• Will all great Neptunes ocean wash this blood
  clean from my hand?(2.2.78-79).
• Despair thy charm and let the angel whom thou
  still hast served tell thee Macduff was from his
  mothers womb untimely ripped (5.8.17-20).

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More Quotes

• Duncan is in his grave. After lifes fitful
  fever he sleeps well (3.2.25-26).
• But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound
  in to saucy doubts and fears (3.4.26-27).

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More Quotes (almost there)

• Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...And all our
  yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty
  death. Out, out brief candle!(5.5.22, 25-27).
• Besides, this DuncanHath borne his faculties so
  meek, hath been so clear in his great
  office..(1.7.16-18).

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Quotes (last one!)

• Gods benison go with you, and with those that
  would make good of bad, and friends of foes!(
  2.4.55-56).
• Wisdom! To leave his wife, to leave his
  babies..He loves us not..(4.2.8-10).

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Scene 1

• Lady MB is caught sleepwalking by the doctor and
  a gentlewoman.
• She repeatedly tries to wash a spot of blood
  off her hands
• Come out damned spot!Why should we be scared?
  No one will put the guilt on us. (5.1.37)
• The doctor tells the gentlewoman that her
  conscience is burdened and people with guilty
  minds confess their secrets to their pillows as
  they sleep, but he doesnt know why.

Lady Macbeth by Henry Fuseli
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Scene 2 3

• A group of Scottish thanes discuss the military
  situation the English army, led by Malcolm,
  approaches and the Scottish army and will meet
  them at Birnam Wood.
• At this point Macbeth is boasting proudly that he
  has nothing to fear from the English army or
  Malcolm.
• However, when he calls his servant Seyton, who
  confirms that an army of ten thousand is
  approaching, Macbeth begins to doubt himself.

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Scene 4 5

• Malcolm reveals his plan to use tree branches to
  disguise the approach of the army to Dunsinane
  Castle.
• After a womans cry is heard, Macbeth finds out
  that the queens is dead.
• A messenger enters with new that the trees of
  Birnam Wood are coming towards Dunsinane.
• Realizing that the prophesies are coming true, he
  decides that the best he can do it die in battle.

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Scenes 6 7

• Malcolm orders the English soldiers to throw down
  their branches, and show themselves as they are.
• Macbeth strikes all those around him and kills
  Old Siwards son.
• However on the other side of the battle,
  Macbeths army surrendered the castle.

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Scene 8

• When Macduff finally encounters Macbeth, Macbeth
  is not scared and insists that he is invincible
  because of the witches prophecy. However Macduff
  tells Macbeth that he was not of woman born, but
  rather from his mothers womb (5.8.15).
• Macbeth suddenly fears for his life, but says he
  will die fighting not surrendering and they exit
  fighting
• After Malcolm and Siward capture the castle,
  Macduff emerges with Macbeths head in his hand
  and proclaims Malcolm king of Scotland.
• Malcolm declares that all his thanes will be made
  earls, call home their exiled friends , and
  invites them all to see him crowned at Scone.

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Congratulations!
Now it's time for a Quick Write!

• Now you have all mastered
• Act V!

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Quick Write

• How has Macbeth changed throughout the novel,
  especially in Act 5? Consider his intentions in
  the beginning of the play and his intentions in
  the end, his reasoning for all of his murders,
  and his reaction to his wifes death. How does
  this reflect his changing personality? Who drove
  Macbeth to do what he did, or was it really fate?
  How is this parallel to another story weve read
  in class?
• to another story we've read