Act
5 – Key Quotes
Directions:
1.
Read
each quote below.2. Find the quote in your own version of Macbeth and read it again.
3. Be prepared to share your thoughts and answers when we return to class on Monday.
Out
damned spot! Out I say! - One, two. Why then, 'tis
time
to do 't. Hell is murky! (dirty) Nonsense, my lord, nonsense. A
solder,
and
afraid? What need we fear who knows it, when none
can
call our power to account? - Yet who would have
thought
the old man to have had so much blood in him.
(181,
77)
2. How has she changed since Act 2, scene 2 when she said, “A little water clears of us this deed”?
The
spirits that know
all
mortal consequences have pronounced me thus,
“Fear
not Macbeth. No man that's born of woman
Shall
e'er have power upon thee.”
(191,
82)
2. What does it show about Macbeth's personality that might have helped him in battle when he was a loyal fighter for Duncan, but now might be considered a fatal flaw?
I
have almost forgot the taste of fears.
… I
have supped full with horrors.
Direness,
familiar to my slaughterous thoughts
Cannot
once start me.
(201,
86)
1.
What
does this show about how Macbeth has changed? What has he lost that
makes him more a beast than a man?
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