act 5 notes Flashcards

1
Q

how many scenes does act 5 have

A

8 scenes

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2
Q

what is a taper

A

candle

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3
Q

what are the 3 things that lady macbeth confesses in her sleep

A

duncan’s murder
lady macduff’s murder
banquo’s murder

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4
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“why it stood by her. She has light by her continually. Tis her command”
her?
FL?

A

lady macbeth

irony because she has no light in her. no good

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5
Q

“yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him”
speaker?
old man?

A

lady macbeth

duncan

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6
Q

“the thane of fife had a wife… What will theese hands ne’er be clean?”
speaker?
talking about what

A

lady macbeth talking about the murder of macduff’s family

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7
Q

“Here’s the smell of the blood still. all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”
speaker
signifigance?

A

lady macbeth

reversal of roles. when macbeth kills duncan she says that water shall wash the blood

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8
Q

“I tell you yet again, banquo’s buried. He cannot come out on’s grave”

A

lady macbeth

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9
Q

“remove her from the means of all annoyance”
speaker?
meaning?

A

doctor, thinking lady macbeth might commit suicide

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10
Q

who are the scottish rebels

A

Menteith, caithness, angus, lennox

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11
Q

what imagery is this quote

he cannot buckle his distempered cuse within the belt of rule”

A

clothing

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12
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“hang loos about him, like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief”
giant?
thief?

A

giant-duncan

thief- macbeth

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13
Q

“meet we the medicine of the sickly weal”
medicine?
speaker?
weal?

A

caithness says this
medicine-malcolm
weal-macbeth

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14
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to dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds”
speaker?
flower?
weeds?

A

lennox
flower- malcolm
weeds-macbeth

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15
Q

“bring me no more reports. let them fly all!”

A

macbeth

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16
Q

“I have lived long enought”

meaning?

A

macbeth

he is ready to die.

17
Q

“cure her of that! canst thou not minister to a mind diseased?
speaker?
FL?

A

macbeth to doctor

irony, macbeth knows that he did this to her and that she will not heal

18
Q

perilous stuff=

A

guilt

19
Q

“bring it after me”
speaker?
it?

A

macbeth about his armor

20
Q

“let every solidier hew him down a bough and bear’t befre him”

A

malcom

21
Q

what did malcolm tell the soldiers to do in thewoods

A

cut down a bough to hide behind. this ended up being the birnam woods moving towards macbeth

22
Q

“and none serve with him but constrained things, whose hearts are absent too”

meaning?

A

malcolm

saying that macbeth’s men have no heart to fight as they are scared of macbeth

23
Q

“she should have died hereafter there would have been a time for such a word”
speaker?
meaning?

A

macbeth doesn’t have time to mourn the death of his wife

24
Q

“out out brief cnadle. 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”
speaker?
what are they metaphors to

A

macbeth

life

25
Q

“i ‘gin to be aweary of the sun”

A

macbeth

giving up on life

26
Q

mabeth kills who

A

young siward

27
Q

“:my soul is too much charged wiht blood of thine already”
speaker?to who?
meaning?

A

macbeth to macduff

saying he has already slain his family, he does not want to slay macduff

28
Q

how is macduff not born normally

A

he was a premature baby and born cesarean

29
Q

“for it hath cowed by better part of man”
speaker?
meaning?

A

macbeth syaing the witches made him fearful

30
Q

“some must go off; and yet, by these i see, so great a day as this is cheaply bought”
speaker
how is this ironic

A

siward, his son is dead

31
Q

why is siward proud of his son

A

fought in a brave manner
honorable / soldier’s death
died facing forward not running away

32
Q

“he worth no more. they say he parted well and paid his score

A

siward about his son

33
Q

3 things that malcolm shall do

A

thanes will become earls
mb’s exiled people or self exiled people are going to be called home
macbeth’s men and killers will be punished