Macbeth - Act 5

• What character's name completes the quotation?"Tell thee __________ was from his mother’s wombUntimely ripped

  Macduff - Macduff was born by cesarean, so technically not "born of woman", meaning that the witches have ultimately tricked Macbeth.
• True or false? Macbeth watches Lady Macbeth with the doctor as she sleepwalks.

  False - Macbeth is said to have gone "into the field". He seems to have lost his humanity at this point, and is unconcerned about his wife's well-being
• What word completes the quotation?"My __________ is too much chargedwith blood of thine already"

  Soul - The reference to his "soul" suggests that Macbeth is aware that his actions will have damned him to hell, and perhaps still feels some guilt about them
• What object does Lady Macbeth carry as she sleepwalks?

  Candle
• What character is being described in this quotation?"this dead butcher"

  Macbeth - Malcolm's description of Macbeth as a "butcher" and Lady Macbeth as his "fiend-like queen" these summarise their actions and behaviour
• What character is being described in this quotation?"She should have died hereafter.There would have been a time for such a word.Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrowCreeps in this petty pace from day to day"

  Lady Macbeth - Macbeth's unfeeling reaction to his wife's death is a total contrast to how Macduff feels when he finds out about his family's deaths
• What is the name of the wood which seems to move towards Dunsinane?

  Birnam Wood - Macbeth interprets the witches' second set of prophecies to mean he is invincible; however, the witches "palter" in a "double sense" - they have misled him
• What word completes the quotation?"I will not be afraid of death and baneTill __________ Forest come to Dunsinane"

  Birnam - Macbeth's bragging shows that he still believes the witches
• What character is being described in this quotation?"Now does he feel his titleHang loose about him, like a giant’s robeUpon a dwarfish thief"

  Macbeth - Macbeth's enemies now know that he hasn't earned the title of king honourably. This metaphor suggests he is out of his depth.
• Macbeth tells Macduff he'll not fight with him. How does Macduff respond to this?

  He calls him a "coward" - Macduff's words echo those of Lady Macbeth when she talked Macbeth into committing regicide
• How does Act 5 begin?

  With Lady Macbeth sleep walking - There is a certain symmetry in the appearances of Lady Macbeth - we first see her in Act One, Scene 5, and we last see her in Act Five, Scene 1. Pay attention to how Shakespeare opens and closes an act
• How many soldiers assemble to defeat Macbeth?

  10,000
• True or false? The Doctor who attends Lady Macbeth's apartments is a woman

  Though the gender of the doctor is not stated, it was improbable it would be a woman. Doctors were not as educated as in modern society, but they would still have had to go to university, a place dominated by males.