Act 5 Scene 1

Lady Macbeth is going mad due to her guilt. She is observed in her chamber by her maid and a doctor. They are growing suspicious about what she is saying. MACBETH NOT THERE. The loyalty between them is broken.

Ambition has divided them, and there has been a role reversal.

Lady Macbeth is now gripped by guilt and insanity, not ambition.

The spot is a symbol and metaphor for her guilt.

Commanding the spot out (juxtapose that with commanding M and the spirits earlier). Reference to hell – she is aware of her wrongdoing and has a conscience. Repetition of fear. (contrast with I shall not be tainted with fear).

“will these hands ne’er be clean”?

The word choice of clean is associated with purity, she knows she is damned. Link to Shakespeare’s message r.e. regicide.

Repetition of blood and references to blood.

“all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand” Hyperbole and word choice of little – she is vulnerable, diminished.

Ambition and power corrupt you.

“plague” “disease” metaphors . Just as a disease/plague is deadly, difficult to stop, has sweeping effects and contaminates those around so Macbeth and LM’s actions have done the same.

Lm: “what’s done cannot be undone” links Macbeth

Cyclical structure is present because all that Macbeth warns of occurs later.

Act 5 Scene 3

Macbeth is absolutely determined not to give up. Compare this Macbeth to the one at the beginning.  

“Give me mine armour. How does your patient, doctor?” Care of his wife is second to his care for battle. Word choice of patient – compare to “my dearest (superlative).

Macbeth is stoic : “I will not be afraid of death and bane”

Act 5 scene 4

 The battle prep with Malcolm etc.

Act 5 is fragmented as the scenes alternate between Macbeth and the impending invaders. This shows that his power is waning/ weakening.

Act 5 Scene 5 Macbeth finds out his wife has died.”She have died thereafter” has a double interpretation, one showing him to be callous, the other kinder.

“tomorrow…Out, out brief candle.

Just as a candle is…

This is Macbeth’s views on life.

Life buts a walking shadow . Just as a shadow…is consumed by darkness.

 

Macbeth tells his messenger : “liar and slave!” Macbeth is incorrect – IRONY.

Act 5 scene 6

Siward refers to Macbeth as a “tyrant”. (repetition)

Act 5 scene 7 : Macbeth refers to himself as a “bear” , not regal.

Siward: “abhorred tyrant”

“dead butcher and his fiend like queen” fiend

fiːnd/

noun

noun: fiend; plural noun: fiends

1.    1.

an evil spirit or demon.

 

 

 

In front of the Radley gate, Tim Johnson had made up what was left of his mind.

He had finally turned himself around, to pursue his original course up our street. He

made two steps forward, then stopped and raised his head. We saw his body go

rigid.

  With movement so swift they seemed simultaneous, Atticus’ hand yanked a

ball-tipped lever as he brought the gun to his shoulder.

  The rifle cracked. Tim Johnson leaped, flopped over and crumpled on the sidewalk

in a brown-and-white heap.  He didn’t know what hit him.

 

 

How does the writer use language here to describe Tim Johnson?

You could include the writer’s choice of:

•words and phrases

•Language features and techniques

•Sentence forms

 

The writer uses language to describe Tim Johnson as inhuman and not significant. We see this when he described as a “heap”. The word choice of heap has suggestions of being rubbish, of insignificance and of being something that is discarded and uncared for and unwanted. Also a heap suggests that he is hard to distinguish and his features are not obvious or noted. This suggests that he is not valued or look at carefully, that he is an unwanted pile of rubbish. Also the writer uses a list which is anticlimactic showing that he has lost power and significance. The list begins with his leaping, the word choice of leaping suggests strength but also of trying to get away from something, and perhaps suggests fear however the list ends with Johnson “crumpled”. The word choice of “crumpled” has suggestions of being weak, again of not being fully visible and of being seriously diminished. Furthermore it suggests weakness and of being beyond help. It creates a tone of pity, also coupled with him being described as a “heap” which furthers the tone of pity as he language is used to describe him as not being human and fully seen/visible.

This is slightly contrasted with the description that he had made up what was left of his mind, this implies that he has lost a lot of his mind and so is diminished. It suggests he in in a weak emotional state, whereas later he is in a weak physical state. 

 

The writer describes the journey as very uncomfortable. She does this by using juxtaposing language. Rosabel describes the scene as having a “sickening smell of warm humanity”. The oxymoronic choice of “warm humanity” has connotations of a loving and jubilant atmosphere however it is highly contrasted by the “sickening smell”. The use of the juxtaposition highlights how, although she’s in the presence of other people and is not lonely, there is a sense of discomfort which is also highlighted by the fact that it was “oozing” out of everyone. The use of the uncontrollable word “oozing” emphasises how Rosabel cannot escape the situation. The use of ellipsis “…she felt almost stifled” causes the reader to pause which could be done to allude to the discomfort and unnerved feeling that Rosabel is experiencing. The contrasting description of outside the bus, “silver”, “fairy palaces” could be done to exaggerate the severity of the uncomfortable description of the bus journey which in turn has negative, dirty words such as “black, greasy”.

 

The juxtaposing colours of “black” and “silver”, “black” which has connotations of dirt and anger and “silver” which has connotations of a sparkly and joyous atmosphere, is done so the reader can feel “stifled” and the same discomfort that Rosabel feels.

The writer conveys the bus journey as very strange. She describes everyone as being the same and wearing the same “meaningless, staring face”. This unnerves the reader and Rosabel and illuminates the journey as emotionless and uncomfortable. The fact that no one is showing emotion presents the people as inhumane and this highlights the lack of care people in the 1900s had for the poor. This bus journey is described as very strange and mundane with no particular observations that stand out to Rosabel aside from the lack of care emitting from everyone.