Blog 17: Act V Study Guide Questions

Answer the following Act V questions based on your reading from the past two days. You may work with a partner, but your responses should be original. Complete sentences and use of textual support is required [at least two quotations]. Posted: Fri., 1.15.10, beginning of class

Act V, scene ii

1. What does Angus say about the men that Macbeth commands?

2. How is the "plant" metaphor started in Act I, sc. iv, by Duncan, continued in this scene?

Act V, scene iii

1. What are Macbeth's troops doing? Why does he remain so confident?

2. How does Macbeth acknowledge that Scotland is suffering?

Act V, scene iv

1. Who is Siward? What is his opinion of the king?

2. What tactical strategy does Malcom implement? What is its purpose and why is it significant to the play?

Act V, scene v

1. How does the sound of the woman's cry affect Macbeth?

2. Who dies in this scene? What are the main ideas of Macbeth's soliloquy after this event?

3. What does Macbeth now recognize about the prophecies? How does his realization relate to the play's central theme?