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Passage Analysis of Macbeth
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Act 5, scene 5
Passage Analysis of Macbeth
Literary devices
Character development
Diction and Vocabulary
IRONY: Macbeth has become less affected by terror, according to the act of manliness he has accepted. He is now drained of all feeling so that he receives the death of his wife, who had actually taught him the concept of manliness.
SIMILE : "That lies like truth", Macbeth is saying that all the lies the witches has been telling him sounded like truth.
METAPHOR: Life is a poor player. (comparing life to a poor player)
At the very beginning of the play, Macbeth was nice and weak. After he had killed Duncan, he became distrustful and cruel.
Lady Macbeth used to be so powerful and strong. But later on, when she began to realize that Macbeth had gotten beyond her control and continuing crime, we can see her evidence of weakness.
Plot development
"She should have died hereafter", which means two things: eventually, she could be dead today or she should have died later because Macbeth is busy defending the castle now.
Falling Action
"A moving grove": When the messenger told Macbeth that Birnam Wood is heading towards Dunsinane.
Macbeth was willing on killing the messenger if he was lying, so we can see that the way he expresses is harsh.
Macbeth receives news that Lady Macbeth has killed herself. He had almost forgotten the taste of fear, and is not scared anymore. He finally realizes that all what the witches were saying is not true. A messenger comes by and tells Macbeth that the wood is moving. He is now aware of the sun. He decided to face the army and fight because he wants to die
like a King.
Important quotations
Themes/ main ideas
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The main ideas of this passage are to show that the witches are equivocators, and that Macbeth has forgotten the taste of fear, and is not scared anymore.
Themes : Ambition, Fate & Violence.
- " 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 ".
- “I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool’d to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in’t: I have supt full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me.”