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Macbeth Act 5, Overview (Scene 2 (Macbeth (Reoccurring description of him…

- - - - Contrast from an evil woman who committed herself to the powers of darkness and hell in act 1
      - Fears darkness now, whereas it wa her ally in the past
    - - Once the powerful support pf her husband now she is isolated and powerless in her own insanity
    - - She has repressed most of her fears and guilt in her waking life; they haunt her in her sleeping life
      - Quote contrasts with her words to Macbeth "What's done is done"
    - - Symbolism- trying to cleanse the guilt
      - A plaintive cry recognising the impossibility of undoing past crimes "all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand"
      - Irony. compared to how she reacted when she sought to control Macbeth after the murder of Duncan "A little water clears us of this deed"
      - She fluctuates from dominant wife to despairing woman in her speech
    - - Punishment fior having denied calling the forces of darkness to "unsex" her
      - Recurring motif that sleep is for the innocent
  - - - No hope in removing the cause of her discomfort "This disease is beyond my practice"
      - Her insanity is merely perlude to her death in Scene 5
    - - Amazed the rumours he had heard were true
      - Concludes "Unnatural deeds / Do breed unnaturalness of events"
- - - - Description ruins in paralel to his wife in the previous scene
    - - Previous scenes: Desribed himself as being dressed in 'borrowed robes'
      - Here: His title described as hanging "loose about him, like a giants rob / upon a dwarfish thief"
      - Clothing imagery is a recurring theme in the play, here it implies that Macbeth is unfit for kingship and should be removed from the throne
    - - Only mercenaries stand with Macbeth
- - - - No comfort for Lady Macbeth
      - Asks doctor for a remedy for Sotland's situation. Irony: He doesn't understand why Scotland is falling apart "..doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease and purge it to a sound and pristine health"
    - - He realises he is coming to the end of his resources, nobody is freely loyal to him and his behaviour has begun to prevent him to consider his situation calmly and realistically. "I have lived long enough: my way of life / Is fallen into the sere, yellow leaf"
      - Murders had not brought neither him or lady Macbeth happiness
      - Is aware he has lost "honour, love, obedience, troops of friends"
      - "I am sick at heart"
      - Ironic and contrasting to his speech before and after
    - - Not feared of death and destruction
- - - - Prophecy (Act 4 Scene 1) : "Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane Hill Shall come against him"
      - Nature used as a weapon to restore order against Macbeth
    - - Contrast to Macbeth in previous scene: Shouting, boasting and disorganised. Scottish have Allied against him