Act 5 - Blood and Sleep

Act 5

• Act 5, Scene 1 : In this first scene, Lady Macbeth’s gentlewoman calls over a doctor to cure her of her weird night habits, She’s sleepwalking and sleep talking around the castle every night, and they don’t know why. Lady Macbeth is feeling very guilty about the murders and is hallucinating. By seeing blood everywhere, it indicates that she feels guilt and alludes to the fact that she will later on commit suicide for her actions.
• Lady Macbeth : «Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why, then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? 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.» (p.82, lines 38-43).
• Act 5, Scene 5 : In this scene, Lady Macbeth, supposedly, commits suicide because of all the guilt she feels surrounding the murders she has forced Macbeth to commit.
• Seyton : «The Queen, my lord, is dead.» (p.90, line 16).   
• Act 5, Scene 5 : In this scene, Macbeth does not have enough men to go to battle but is confident he can not be defeated. He does prepare himself to fight until he can not anymore.
• Macbeth: “ If thou speak'st false,

Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive,

Till famine cling thee: if thy speech be sooth,

I care not if thou dost for me as much.

I pull in resolution, and begin

To doubt the equivocation of the fiend

That lies like truth: 'Fear not, till Birnam wood

Do come to Dunsinane:' and now a wood

Comes toward Dunsinane. Arm, arm, and out!

If this which he avouches does appear,

There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here.

I gin to be aweary of the sun,

And wish the estate o' the world were now undone.

Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!

At least we'll die with harness on our back.” (p.91, line 38-52)

• Act 5, Scene 8 : The last scene of this play is where Macbeth is killed by his former friend Macduff. His head is chopped off and Macduff enters carrying it. This is somewhat ironic seeing that Macbeth once did the same to a man he had killed. This scene scene represents the death Macbeth could not escape.  

Enter Macduff, with Macbeth’s head. (p.96, between line 53 and 54)