Scene I Macbeth comes to the witches and demands to know the truth about his prophecy. They call upon the 4 apparitions Beware of Macduff He will not be killed by a man born from a woman He is safe until the Birnam Wood moves to Dunsinane Hill. 8 kings appear and Banquo’s ghost walks at the end of the line carrying a mirror.

Scene I cont’d 2. Lennox tells Macbeth that Macduff has fled to England. 3. Macbeth decides to send murderers to kill Macduff’s wife and children.

“Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog” (IV.i).

Scene II Lady Macduff is angry that her husband fled and left her and her children defenseless, but does not flee when told to because she argues that she is innocent. Lady Macduff tells her son that his father is dead, but he doesn’t agree. Murderers come and kill Lady Macduff and her children

Scene III 1.Malcom tests Macduff’s loyalty to Scotland by falsely telling him that Malcom will be a horrible king because he is lustful, greedy, and violent. Macduff, after disagreeing at first, is scared for Scotland, and therefore passed the test. 2. Doctor enters and tells Macduff that King Edward has the power to cure anyone just by touching him or her. 3. Ross comes from Scotland and informs the men the horrors of Scotland . At first hesitant , he later confesses to Macduff that his wife and children are dead. 4. Crushed by the news, Macduff announces that he will use his anger to get revenge and kill Macbeth .

ACT V The final “act”

ACT V RECAP MACBETH’S STATE OF MIND: STATE OF SCOTLAND: “I cannot taint with fear!... The heart I bear shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear!” YET… “My way of life is fall ’n into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must NOT look to have.” STATE OF SCOTLAND: Army: “Those he commands move only in command, nothing in love. Thanes/Nobles: “March we on to give obedience to where it is truly owed.”

ACT V RECAP LADY MACBETH’S PECULIARITY “Out, damned spot, out I say!” “Here’s the smell of blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will NOT sweeten this little hand.” DOCTOR: “Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles… More needs she the DIVINE than the physician.”

ACT V RECAP SECOND SET OF PROPHECIES MALCOLM’S BRILLIANCE: Armed Head: “Beware Macduff. Beware the Thane of Fife” Bloody Baby: “None born of woman shall harm Macbeth” Prince with a Tree: “Never vanquish be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill come against him” MALCOLM’S BRILLIANCE: “Let every soldier hew him down a bough and bear ‘t before him. Thereby we shall we shadow the numbers of our host and make discovery err in report of us.

ACT V – MEANINGLESS DEATH OF LADY MACBETH Macbeth - “I have almost forgot the taste fears… Out, out brief candle. Life is 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.”

ACT V – THE FIGHTS YOUNG SIWARD’S DEATH VALOR - “The devil himself could not pronounce a title more hateful to mine ear!” “Had I as many sons as I have hairs, I would not wish them to a fairer death.” MACDUFF’S VENGENCE Why won’t Macbeth fight him at first? What surprising news do we receive about Macduff?

Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroes Aristotle wrote down these characteristics of a tragic hero for classical Greek tragedy plays. However, Shakespeare plays are often noted for their excellent portrayals of tragic heroes. Macbeth is an example of a principal Shakespeare character who is regarded as a tragic hero. Macbeth's fatal flaw, as seen by Aristotle, would be his lust for power (ambition).

Macbeth Unlike classical tragic heroes, however, Macbeth is well aware of his fatal flaw from the beginning - he constantly questions himself on why he continues to delay the fulfillment of his desires. This is slightly different from the Aristotliean classical tragedies such as Oedipus Rex where the hero is not aware of his flaw until the very end.

REVIEW ~ Big Picture Ideas & Connecting Themes ~ MACBETH claims, “[The Weird Sisters] have cowed my better part of man!… In a double sense, that keeps the word of promise to our ear and breaks it to our hope!” What does this mean? How is all of this tragic? How have Macbeth and Lady Macbeth changed since the beginning? What is Macbeth’s hamartia? What led to their downfalls?

REVIEW ~ Big Picture Ideas & Connecting Themes ~ One of the major themes of Macbeth is that “appearances can be deceiving.” What are some examples of where that is true from the play? GENDER ROLES: What are the different views of being “manly” throughout the play? Do they fit with today’s standards?

Unlocking Themes in Macbeth Ambition can subvert reason. When supernatural powers represent evil, they should be ignored. The natural order is disrupted by any upset in the proper order of human society.

Unlocking Themes in Macbeth Appearances do not always reflect reality. Despite prophecies of the future, people are responsible for their own actions. Attempts to control the future by overturning the natural order of society are futile.

Ambition can subvert reason “From this moment,the very firstlings of my shall be the firstlings of my hand.” Act IV, Scene 1 heart

Ambition can subvert reason “Thou wouldst be great; art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it.” Act I, Scene 5

When supernatural powers represent evil, they should be ignored. “But ‘tis strange! And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray’s in deepest consequence.” Act I, Scene 3

When supernatural powers represent evil, they should be ignored. “Accursed be the tongue that tells me so, for it hath cowed my better part of man! And be these juggling fiends no more believed.” Act V, Scene 8

The natural order is disrupted by any upset in the proper order of human society. “By the clock ‘tis day, and yet dark night strangles the traveling lamp. Is’t night’s predominance, or day’s shame, that darkness does the face of earth entomb when living light should kiss it?” Act II, Scene 4

The natural order is disrupted by any upset in the proper order of human society. “The obscure bird clamored the livelong night. Some say the earth was feverous and did shake.” Act II, Scene 3

Appearances do not always reflect reality. “There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face. He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust.” Act I, Scene 4

Appearances do not always reflect reality. “Our separated fortune shall keep us both the safer. Where we are, there’s in men’s smiles; the near in blood, the nearer bloody.” Act II, Scene 3 daggers

Despite prophecies of the future, people are responsible for their own actions. “If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear your favors nor your hate.” Act I, Scene 3

Despite prophecies of the future, people are responsible for their own actions. “I pull in resolution, and begin to doubt the equivocation of the fiend, that lies like truth.” Act V, Scene 5

Attempts to control the future by overturning the natural order of society are futile. “Duncan is in his grave; after life’s fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst: nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, can touch him further.” Act III, Scene2

Attempts to control the future by overturning the natural order of society are futile. “Here’s the smell of blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh,oh,oh!” Act V, Scene 1