Lady Macbeth's Actions Relate To Her Statements In Act 2
ACT 5 Inquiry Questions
Sandra Nguyen
1. Describe in detail the change in Lady Macbeth. How do her actions relate to her statements in Act 2, scene 2, lines 81-91?
Lady Macbeth enters the play in Act 1, scene 5 were she is perceived as a powerful, controlling and an independent women. She is ruthless and tries to make sure Macbeth becomes king by planning the deed, and also getting her own hands dirty. While Macbeth feels guilty about the blood on his hands, she says, "My hands are of your colour, but I shame / To wear a heart so white,” (2.2.64-65). However, Lady Macbeth makes a complete 180 turns in Act 5 when guilt and repentance come to haunt her. She is sleepwalking and muttering about the horrible act of killing Duncan. The paranoid …show more content…
The soldiers disguise themselves in Burnam wood and carrying cut down trees as they march towards the castle. This proves the third apparition where “Mabeth shall never vanquished be until / Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill / Shall come against him,” (4.1.96.98). Macbeth believed that it would never happen because the trees would never pull their roots out of the ground and start walking. When Macbeth hears the news that Birnam Wood is making it’s way towards the castle, he realizes his …show more content…
And in the past it has brought fools closer to death. Out, candle! Life is a walking shadow; an illusion. It is like a poor actor that paces and worries for his hour of fame, then never seen again. Life is a book narrated by an idiot, full of sounds and emotions, but has no purpose.
6. How, and by whom, is the prophecy about Macbeth being defeated by one “not of woman born” fulfilled?
Macbeth believed that from his third prophecy, “none of women born / Shall harm Macbeth,” (4.1.82-830) he would never be vanquished because everyone is born from a women. Macbeth assumed that he was safe, but what he did not know was that, “Macduff was from his mother’s womb / Untimely ripped,” (5.8.15-16). Macduff’s mother had a caesarean section before she died.
7. What is Macduff’s trophy of this great battle?
Macduff only wants to fight Macbeth and “If thou beest slain, and with no stroke of mine, / My wife and children’s ghoasts will haunt [him] still,” 95.717-18). Macduff wants to avenge his family’s death and will put down his sword to whoever isn’t
Sandra Nguyen
1. Describe in detail the change in Lady Macbeth. How do her actions relate to her statements in Act 2, scene 2, lines 81-91?
Lady Macbeth enters the play in Act 1, scene 5 were she is perceived as a powerful, controlling and an independent women. She is ruthless and tries to make sure Macbeth becomes king by planning the deed, and also getting her own hands dirty. While Macbeth feels guilty about the blood on his hands, she says, "My hands are of your colour, but I shame / To wear a heart so white,” (2.2.64-65). However, Lady Macbeth makes a complete 180 turns in Act 5 when guilt and repentance come to haunt her. She is sleepwalking and muttering about the horrible act of killing Duncan. The paranoid …show more content…
The soldiers disguise themselves in Burnam wood and carrying cut down trees as they march towards the castle. This proves the third apparition where “Mabeth shall never vanquished be until / Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill / Shall come against him,” (4.1.96.98). Macbeth believed that it would never happen because the trees would never pull their roots out of the ground and start walking. When Macbeth hears the news that Birnam Wood is making it’s way towards the castle, he realizes his …show more content…
And in the past it has brought fools closer to death. Out, candle! Life is a walking shadow; an illusion. It is like a poor actor that paces and worries for his hour of fame, then never seen again. Life is a book narrated by an idiot, full of sounds and emotions, but has no purpose.
6. How, and by whom, is the prophecy about Macbeth being defeated by one “not of woman born” fulfilled?
Macbeth believed that from his third prophecy, “none of women born / Shall harm Macbeth,” (4.1.82-830) he would never be vanquished because everyone is born from a women. Macbeth assumed that he was safe, but what he did not know was that, “Macduff was from his mother’s womb / Untimely ripped,” (5.8.15-16). Macduff’s mother had a caesarean section before she died.
7. What is Macduff’s trophy of this great battle?
Macduff only wants to fight Macbeth and “If thou beest slain, and with no stroke of mine, / My wife and children’s ghoasts will haunt [him] still,” 95.717-18). Macduff wants to avenge his family’s death and will put down his sword to whoever isn’t