The Tragedy of Macbeth Act 5

THE
TRAGEDY OF
MACBETH
ACT 5
Major Characters and their
Characteristics in Act 5
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Malcolm
Macduff
MACBETH
Characteristics:
o Ambitious and Overconfident
o Pride
o Fearless
o Brave
o Despairing
MACBETH
Characteristics:
oAmbitious and Overconfident
“Bring me no more reports. Let them fly all.

Till Birnam Wood remove to Dunsinane…”
(Act 5, Scene 3, Lines 1-2)

MACBETH
Characteristics:
oOverconfident
“…I will not be afraid of death and destruction

until Birnam forest picks itself up and moves to
Dunsinane.”

MACBETH
Characteristics:
oOverconfident
“…Our castle’s strength/ Will laugh a siege to
scorn…”
“…Were they not forced with those that should be/

ours,/ We might have met them dareful, beard to
beard,/And beat them backward home.”
(Act 5, Scene 5, Lines 5-8 )
MACBETH
Characteristics:
oOverconfident
“But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to

scorn,/Brandished by man that’s of a woman
born.”

MACBETH
Characteristics:
oPride
“Why should I play the Roman fool and die/On

mine own sword? Whiles I see lives, the gashes/Do
better upon them.”

MACBETH
Characteristics:
oFearless
“I have almost forgot the taste of fears.”
(Act 5, Scene 5, Line 11)

MACBETH
Characteristics:
oBravery
“I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be

hacked./Give me my armor.”

MACBETH
Characteristics:
oBravery
“…I cannot taint with fear. What’s the boy Malcolm?/Was
he not born of woman? The spirits that know/ All mortal
consequences have pronounced me thus: /“Fear not,
Macbeth. No man that’s born of woman /Shall e'er have
power upon thee.” Then fly, false/ thanes,/ And mingle
with the English epicures/. The mind I sway by and the
heart I bear/ Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with
fear.”

MACBETH
Characteristics:
oDespairing
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

LADY MACBETH
Characteristics:
oGuilt-ridden
“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!—One,

two…”
(Act 5, Scene 1, Line 36)

LADY MACBETH
Characteristics:
oGuilt-ridden
“Here’s the smell of the blood still. All/the

perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this
little/hand. Oh, Oh, Oh! “

LADY MACBETH
Characteristics:
oGuilt-ridden
“To bed, to bed. There’s knocking at

the/gate. Come, come, come, come. Give me
your/ hand. What’s done cannot be
undone.—To bed, to/ bed, to bed!”

MALCOLM
Characteristics:
oWise and Strategic
“Let every soldier hew him down a bough/

And bear ’t before him. Thereby shall we
shadow /The numbers of our host and make
discovery/ Err in report of us. “

MALCOLM
Characteristics:
oWise and Strategic
“Now near enough. Your leafy screens throw

down, /And show like those you are…”

MACDUFF
Characteristics:
oDetermined
“That way the noise is. Tyrant, show thy

face!...”

MACDUFF
Characteristics:
oCourageous
“I have no words:
My voice is in my sword: thou bloodier villain
Than terms can give thee out!”

MACDUFF
Characteristics:
oBold
“Then yield thee, coward,

And live to be the show and gaze o' the time:
We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are,
Painted on a pole, and underwrit,
'Here may you see the tyrant.'”

Scenes of Unlocking
Difficulties
o Somnambulism of Lady Macbeth

o Prophecies:
a. “Macbeth would be killed by a man
who is not born of a woman.”
b. “Until Birnam Wood gets up and
moves to Dunsinane.”
oSoliloquy of Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, Lines 20-31)
She should have died hereafter.
There would have been a time for such a word.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Insights or Reflections
o The corrupting power of unchecked

ambition
o The difference between kingship and

tyranny
o Do not use other people as stepping stones

to Glory
o Contentment in life
THANK YOU!

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“Bring me no more reports. Let them fly all.

(Act 5, Scene 3, Lines 1-2)

“…I will not be afraid of death and destruction

(Act 5, Scene 3, Lines 73-74)

“…Were they not forced with those that should be/

“But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to

(Act 5, Scene 7, Lines 17-18)

“Why should I play the Roman fool and die/On

(Act 5, Scene 8, Lines 1-3)

“I have almost forgot the taste of fears.”

(Act 5, Scene 5, Line 11)

“I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be

(Act 5, Scene 3, Lines 38-39)

(Act 5, Scene 3, Lines 3-11)

(Act 5, Scene 5, Lines 20-31)

“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!—One,

(Act 5, Scene 1, Line 36)

“Here’s the smell of the blood still. All/the

(Act 5, Scene 1, Lines 53-55)

“To bed, to bed. There’s knocking at

(Act 5, Scene 1, Lines 69-72)

“Let every soldier hew him down a bough/

(Act 5, Scene 4, Lines 6-9)

“Now near enough. Your leafy screens throw

(Act 5, Scene 6, Lines 1-2)

“That way the noise is. Tyrant, show thy

(Act 5, Scene 7, Lines 19-28)

(Act 5, Scene 8, Lines 8-10)

“Then yield thee, coward,

(Act 5, Scene 8, Lines 27-31)

o Somnambulism of Lady Macbeth

o The corrupting power of unchecked

o The difference between kingship and

o Do not use other people as stepping stones

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