Macbeth: Act 5

          After killing King Duncan, lady Macbeth and Macbeth were crown as the new rulers of Scotland.   Lady Macbeth push toward the idea of murder has put them at the top but at what cost? In the play, Lady Macbeth has started the questioning her and her husband's actions. Not only has she started questioning but Macbeth's insanity has also took a toll on her mental/emotional state. Shakespeare wanted the audience to understand that Lady Macbeth started to regret her decision intensely, that she can't keep it in. By having her sleep walk and sleep talk (and other actions) connect to the quote "Sleep no more...Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more" ( act 2 scene 2 page 3). Macbeth said this quote after the bloody action that occurred that night.  Macbeth's quote finally reveal in act 5 scene 1, when lady Macbeth was sleep walking/talking. Macbeth quote tells that no murder crime or crimes on equal/beyond that deed level will never disappear from the human mind. Instead the memory of your action will creep and craw around the mind, forcing the person to remember repeatedly like a broken disk or a time loop as the Supernatural show's episode, Mystery Spot.  And these reminders crack the mind decreases the human's brain strength, which causes the human to go insane or depression. In Lady Macbeth case, she started to lose sanity. 

          I Believe the play's, Macbeth, climax was in scene one. Before act 5, the audience wouldn't guess that Lady Macbeth started sleep walking. Sure they might seen that she changed ever since the murder but out of all the possible ways the deed could affect her, sleep walking was at the bottom in the past. Also, after scene one everything soon began falling to the resolution. For instance, the doctor of course had to tell the husband that her wife needed God and that the doctor presence help end Macbeth's conversation to one of his subjects about important info. And because her didn't care for the info, Macduff and his army was able to attack swiftly and so on.

          Even though Shakespeare usually gives his tragic heroes an impressive dying speech, he didn't wrote Macbeths. Instead he gave Macbeth one speech in act 5 scene 5 that closest to the death speech. When Seyton leaves to investigate the scream, Macbeth was left alone. During his alone time, Macbeth started think about his past. the reason this factor is important is because most dying speeches involved the hero's life. and in Macbeth case, it was when his former self, " I almost forgotten what fear feels  like. there was a time when I would have been terrified by a shriek in night...". The reason about reviewing one's life in a dying speech is so important is because there're legend that before someone dies, they see they life flash before their eyes. Another factor a dying speech has would be his point of view of life or what he learned or sharing his personal opinion,          ( Seyton came back and gave Macbeth the news about his wife)  " life is nothing more  than an illusion". Before killing king Duncan, Macbeth had never thought that was life in such away, but after facing everything, he came to terms to this understanding. Lastly, this also have the audience a understanding about his mindset at this point which helps the readers connect or understand him.

          At first Macbeth 's quote ," life is a tale/ Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury./ Signifying nothing", irritated me since I believe no one's story isn't important. But as I soon kept on thinking, I soon kind of agree with him. I don't think life is told by an idiot, since everyone is a expert of living because they all lived. There might be lazy, slow, rude, and etc. people in the world but even they can learn a few things. Plus what right do people have the right to judge, only God has the power to judge. Sure, it's okay to have an opinion, but you can't classify that person by that opinion but only if you truly know that person. But I do agree that life is filled with sound and fury, but also love, sadness, happiness, and etc. Life can't be sum up with two or there words; life can't be sum up in infinity words because life means different to everyone. Because of that logic above, I soon understand that what life meant for Macbeth, an endless pain that can never stop. But I can't never agree with the last part, "...Signifying nothing", life isn't meaningless. Life holds many wonders for many people, just because there's a moment that horrible doesn't define one's life as nothing. Life isn't suppose to be easy, life is filled with both amazing and horrifying moments, and form each moment teaches the living something valuable. God didn't create life because he thought it was meaningless but because he believe it was valuable, and God wouldn't have created you if he didn't think life isn't worth it.