ACT 5 STUDY QUESTIONS

5.1 

1. Gentlewomen has seen lady Macbeth sleepwalk. She doesn't want to lie and wants the speech to be justified so the engle woman doesn't get in trouble for saying something wrong that lady Macbeth didn't say.

2. Lady Macbeth reveals her guilty actions of murders she has done. Subconscious will let out the guilt she feels when she cannot let it out consciously. He thinks he knows what she has done but he will not speak of it because it is based in assumption. 

5.4

Malcom is telling his soldiers to camouflage themselves so that Macbeths army can't see how many of them there are. 

I don't think that it will effect Macbeths decision. 5.

5.5

"The cry of women" signifies the death of Lady Macbeth. He is saying he is essentially too far gone to turn back and that life is just meaningless blip in  the life  of your immortal soul. There is a moving forest according to the messenger and Macbeth thinks that the messenger is lying and he says he will die if he truly lies. He now understands what the witches were talking about when they said to fear "Birnahm does come to Dunisane. He is not ready to lie down and take it he says that "at least we can die with harness at our back."

5.6

5.7

5.8

1. Macduff was looking for Macbeth because he wanted to fight him and kill him. Macduff didn't want to fight any of his soldiers, just Macbeth. It would haunt him if he didn't kill him.

5.9

1.  Malcolm and Siward are able to enter the castle so easily because everyone's fighting outside.  Everything is chaotic- the fighting between the two armies, Macbeth's and the Norwegians, provides a cover for Malcolm and Siward to enter the castle.

5.10

5.11

1. Siward did not seem sad about the death of his son, but rather proud that he died a man and died fighting. Siward mentioned how he had many other sons and as long as his son died bravely he was happy.

2. Malcolm promises that the men who helped him will be earls or lords to the king. These will be the first earls of Scotland. Malcolm says that Lady Macbeth killed her self because of her obsession with killing and evilness. As far as believing this, I think its possible, but I think the guilt of all her evil acts came back and made her sick and haunted her which led to her death. Also Macbeth tells the doctor to cure her of her delusions, which could possibly mean that Macbeth has his wife killed as well, but for her own benefit.