Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Act V: Macbeth

In Act 5 Macbeth is beheaded by Macduff, Lady Macbeth kills herself after she confess's to having something to do with the death of duncan and of Banquo while sleep walking, and Malcolm ends up becoming King after all.
In the beginning we find out that Lady Macbeth has been sleep walking and telling about the murders her and Macbeth have talked about. A docter comes to visit her and the housekeeper or whatever tells him about the sleep walking. When she was sleep walking she said "Wash your hands; put on your nightgown; look not so pale! I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried, He cannot come out on's grave." At first I truly didn't know that she had known about the death of Banquo. Then she talks about how her hands smells of blood, just like what Macbeth was doing when he saw Banquo's ghost, but she literally told it all. Then they tell Macbeth she has died they don't say until the end that she has killed herself. Malcolm says, "Who, as tis thought, byself and violent hands, Took her life."
Then when the armys start to surround the castle Macbeth doesn't think to much about them because of what the witchs had said about only a someone who was not born of a women can kill him, and he only needs to worry when the trees touch the castle. So when the armys cut off branches of the trees to hide their numbers, he really starts to worry then but he ends up killing this young boy, He starts to not worry so much he starts to think about what the witchs say about them not to be born of a woman. But he ends up getting killed by Macduff who was a C- Section baby. Macbeth says, "I bear a charmed life, which must not yeild, To one of woman born." Macduff says, "Macduff was from his mother's womb Untimely ripped."
Finally after Macduff walks in with Macbeth's head in his hands, Malcolm gives his speech and it is over. Leaving everyone wondering how did Banquo's son's become King.

1 comment:

D a n a said...

Nice work on these Macbeth posts. You use your direct evidence very well.

You should move onto the sonnet project now.