1. Macbeth Act 5 scene 6-9 (END) Date:
Objectives
Takes notes on the scene to settle down (1 slide)
Read Act 5 scene 6-9, taking notes in between.
Warm-up – note the quote and respond.
“Through Birnan wood be come to Dunsinan,
And thou opposed, being of no woman born,
Yet I will try the last. Before my body
I throw my warlike shield” (Macbeth)

2. Act 5 scene 6 and 7 - Note
Macbeth continues to be ignorant to the truth. A strong young warrior leads the first charge against Macbeth, and is defeated. This makes Macbeth extremely confident. Moments later we learn that Macbeth’s army has surrendered with little resistance.
(Open Act 5, scene 6-7)

3. Malcolm, Seyward, MacDuff. Macbeth, Young Seyward, MacDuff, Siward
Reading
Read Act 5 scene 6 and 7
Malcolm, Seyward, MacDuff.
Macbeth, Young Seyward, MacDuff, Siward
(Spelling of Seward’s name changes a lot)

4. Act 5 scene 8 - Note
This is the scene Macbeth is killed in. He enters with a false confidence. Although he has been warned of MacDuff, he faces him anyway believing that he is still ‘of woman born’. MacDuff tells him he was born prematurely, cut out from his mother (a Caesarean or C. Section). Macbeth refuses to fight at first but after being called a coward returns and fights to the end.

5. Reading Act 5 scene 8
Macbeth - MACDUFF,

6. Act 5 scene 9 - Note
There is a nice message in the last scene about honour and courage. Old Seyward is told his son was killed but the father says he does not need to mourn as the son faced his enemy head on. He died like a man.
There is a repeat of what happened earlier in the play – the thane of Cawdor, a traitor, is dead and titles are handed out. Malcolm did as much as his father and it was a mighty warrior, Macduff, who did the work.

7. The battle is a series of brief and noisy skirmishes
The battle is a series of brief and noisy skirmishes. Macbeth believes he is invincible – after he kills an English nobleman, young Siward, the audience wonders if this is true.
Macbeth’s castle falls. Some of Macbeth’s men fight for him, some against. Macduff seeks out Macbeth and tells him he is “Not of woman born” but rather was “from his mother’s womb untimely ripp’d”. They fight on and Macbeth is slain.
Macduff cuts off Macbeth’s head in an echo of the early scenes of the play. The wheel of fortune has come full circle. Macbeth the traitor has in his turn, just like the Thane of Cawdor, been beheaded.
The play ends with Malcolm thanking the nobles and inviting them to see him crowned at Scone…

8. Identify the speakers of these words from Act V Scenes VI, VII, VIII and IX.
“They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly.” Macbeth/Macduff/Siward
“The devil himself could not pronounce a title
More hateful to mine ear.” Macbeth/Macduff/Siward
“Turn hell-hound, turn.” Macbeth/Macduff/Siward
“I will not yield,
to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet…” Macbeth/Macduff/Siward
“…this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen…” Malcolm/Macduff/Siward

9. Cooldown
I think,
I know,
I wonder.