1. Macbeth
Act V

2. Scene 1

3. Watching Lady Macbeth
A lady-in-waiting and a doctor discuss Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking
Lady Macbeth enters walking in her sleep

4. “Out, Out Damned Spot” Lady Macbeth rubs her hands repeatedly
She is trying to rid them of the blood she imagines stains them

5. Suspicions Aroused
From Lady Macbeth’s words, the onlooker infer that she and Macbeth murdered Duncan
The doctor is afraid to speak about his suspicions

6. Sleepwalking
Theme: Link between unnatural acts and unusual events in nature
Doctor calls Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking a “perturbation of nature”
She is sleepwalking because she is disturbed inside

7. Motif: Sleeplessness
Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking illustrates the motif of sleeplessness
Represents her guilty conscious in Duncan’s murder

8. Revealing Murders Lady Macbeth reveals the following in her speech
“Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?”
Duncan’s murder
“The Thane of Fife had a wife, where is she now?”
Murder of Lady Macduff and family
“I tell you yet again, Banquo’s buried”
Banquo’s murder

9. Scene 2

10. Waiting in the Woods
In Birnam Wood, the Scottish lords prepare to join forces with the approaching English army
They will fight Macbeth
The Lord’s discuss Macbeth’s state of mind

11. Scene 3

12. Feeling Invincible Macbeth feels confident that he is invincible
Due to witches’ prophecies
Servant brings him news of the approaching army

13. Witches Prophecies Macbeth refers to two of the witches’ prophecies
No man born of woman can kill him
Safe until Birnam Wood comes to high Dunsinane Hill
Forgets about first prophecy
Beware Macduff, the Thane of Fife

14. Imagery
After King Duncan’s murder, Lady Macbeth chided her husband for wearing a “heart so white”
Macbeth rebukes his servant with similar imagery
Cream-faced loon
Whey face
Lily-livered boy
Linen cheeks
Masks his own fears
Reveals his estrangement from his nobles

15. Irony Lines 46-54 refer to “disease”
Macbeth is referring to his rebellious thanes and England
He recommends purging the land
Irony: Macbeth is the disease that plagues the land
He is calling for his own death

16. Scene 4

17. Prediction Number Three
Malcolm orders the soldiers gathered near Birnam Wood to camouflage themselves
They break off tree branches to hold in front of them
It appears as if Birnam Wood is moving toward Dunsinane Castle

18. Scene 5

19. Death of Lady Macbeth Seyton enters with the news Lady Macbeth is dead
“The queen, my lord, is dead.”
Macbeth replies:
She should have died hereafter;/There would have been a time for such a word
Death is inevitable
He is too self-absorbed at the moment to grieve her death

20. Soliloquy Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
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,
Signifying nothing." (lines 19-28)

21. Realization Macbeth now realizes the pointlessness of his ambition
He realizes the insignificance of his struggles
Uses metaphors for life
Walking shadow
A poor player
Tale told by an idiot
Relates to theme of appearances can be deceiving

22. Tricked by the Witches
A messenger brings news that Birnam Wood is approaching Dunsinane Castle
Macbeth realizes that the witches have tricked him
He took the prophecies literally
He is likely to be defeated

23. Admirable Qualities Macbeth knows he is doomed
He remains a courageous soldier
Ready to die in battle

24. Scene 6

25. Attacking the Castle
Upon reaching the front of Macbeth’s castle, Malcolm orders his troops to throw down their camouflage
They attack
Siward and his son are in the lead
Followed by Malcolm and Macduff

26. Scene 7

27. The Battle Begins On the field of battle, Macbeth kills young Siward
Macbeth exits with Macduff in pursuit
Old Siward informs Malcolm that Macbeth’s castle has fallen
Barely defended by dissatisfied subjects

28. Imagery
“They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly,/But bear-like I must fight the course.” (lines 1-2)
Bear Baiting imagery
Macbeth feels trapped like the bear

29. Believing in the Prophecy
Macbeth still believes the prophecy that no man born of woman can harm him
False hope
All men are born of women
Again takes the prophecy literally

30. Scene 8

31. Confrontation Macduff confronts Macbeth
Macbeth refuses to fight him at first
Warns Macduff that no man born of woman can harm him
Macduff reveals he was not “born of woman”
He was untimely ripped from his mother’s womb
Caesarian section

32. Final Battle Macbeth still refuses to fight
Macduff goads him by vowing to place him in a cage and display him as a tyrant
The fight begins
Continues off stage

33. Death of Macbeth Macduff returns with the head of Macbeth
Mirrors Macbeth’s killing of Macdonwald
Also a traitor

34. Long Live King Malcolm Macduff proclaims Malcolm King of Scotland
Malcolm promises to restore peace and order to the land