Macbeth remembers the prophecy and decides to die while fighting. A messenger delivers the shocking news of the Birnam Wood moving toward Dunsinane.
Macbeth act 5 scene 5 full#
It jolts Macbeth and famously he soliloquised of the nature of life which is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury while signifying nothing.
Macbeth orders to hang banners on the outer walls and brags how the enemy will suffer outside and will be repealed by itself. Seyton delivers the message regarding the death of Lady Macbeth. Near Birnam wood, Malcolm says to Lord Siward that each soldier should cut down a bough from the wood of Birnam and keep it before him while moving closer to the battlefield so that there will be errors on the enemy part in calculating their numbers of soldiers. Macbeth reiterates his promised security. The doctor tells him about Lady Macbeth’s illness and Macbeth orders him to cure her of that. Seyton, his attendant confirms the report of the gathering army and Macbeth asks for his armour even though it’s not needed right then. He is overly confident of his invincibility because of the sure prophecy made by the three witches. Macbeth enters with the Doctor and servants. Angus speaks of his undeserving title which is now sustained only by fear, not love. In a country near Dunsinane Menteith, Angus, Lennox and few other Lords discuss the approaching English Army. Menteith addresses Macbeth as “the tyrant” and they talk about how he is preparing madly in Dunsinane for the battle. The Doctor and the gentlewoman witness her gradual descent into madness while she leaves for her bed. Her guilty conscience reveals secrets through her murmurs. Lady Macbeth enters with a candle while acting like washing her hands. The doctor wants to know what she talks then but the gentlewoman denies.
In Macbeth’s castle, a doctor and a gentlewoman are talking about Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking.
0 kommentar(er)
