2. What is the Percentage of Macbeth's Moral Values compared to his sense of ambition?
Ambition: 80%.   Moral Values: 20%

3. Key quotes from the scene
“I will not yield, to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s Feet, And to be baited with the rabble’s curse” - Page 171

“Thou losest labour. As easy mayst thou the interchant air. With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed. Let thy blade on vulnerable crests” - Page 170

4. Any key character changes or development?
Macbeth:
Macduff:

5. What themes or ideas are presented through this?
Violence: Presented through the battle of Macbeth and Macduff
Ambition: Macbeth shows his ambition to rule as King by not surrendering and being ruled by Malcolm

-Macbeth’s head being carried by Macduff shows that Macbeth has been defeated

Shall harm Macbeth.”

Before the scene he was worried about losing his power and feeling guilty about killing people. After the scene he was reassured that he is invincible and his character becomes more confident and brave.

Themes - Greed can blind you of your morals. False hope can make a big impact on future events.

Act 2, Scene 1 - 2
2. What is the Percentage of Macbeth's Moral Values compared to his sense of ambition?
His morals remain greater than his ambition at this point.
3. Key quotes from the scene
“I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise”
(looking at his hands) “this is a sorry sight”
4. Any key character changes or development?
At this point in the play, Macbeth starts to give into his ambition
5. What themes or ideas are presented through this?
Ambition, sanity, masculinity, guilt.
6. Are there any significant symbols or imagery present in this scene?
The floating dagger in this scene symbolises his descent into madness.

2. What is the Percentage of Macbeth's Moral Values compared to his sense of ambition?
Moral Values: 60% Ambition: 40%

3. Key quotes from the scene
     1. “All hail Macbeth! That shalt be king hereafter”
     2. “Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear things that do sound so fair”
     3. “So foul and fair a day I have not seen”

4. Any key character changes or development?
The most important part of this scene is where Macbeth is told that he will be king. He starts to become unsure of himself and doesn’t know whether to trust witches or not.

5. What themes or ideas are presented through this?
 -Ambition: Macbeth was excited at the idea of becoming king

6. Are there any significant symbols or imagery present in this scene

 -witches 
-banquo

Macbeth’s ambition: 90%

Key quotes 
“Let grief convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it.”

“... your wife and babes savagely slaughter’d...”
"I doub some danger does approach you nearly. If you will take a homely man’s advice, be not found here”
"He has killed me, mother. Run away, I pray you!”

Key character changes/development 

Themes/ideas presented through this 

 

Significant symbols/imagery 

In this scene, the percentage of Macbeth’s moral values compared to his sense of ambition is much higher as he is overwhelmed and consumed by a feeling of guilt for killing Banquo. We can see this since he is shouting at a ghost no one else at the banquet can see. This might be the result of his inner conflict with himself because of the guilt he feels for murdering Banquo and still has strong moral values because he cares. This is unlike the way he feels later in the book when characters like Lady Macbeth die. He shows no empathy or doesn’t express sadness.

3.  Key quotes from the scene

“Avaunt, and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee.

Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold.

Thou hast no speculation in those eyes

Which thou dost glare with!”

This quote is referring to Macbeth shouting at the ghost and telling it to get out of his sight, to stay in its grave because there is no marrow in its bones, it’s blood is cold, and it’s looking at him with eyes that can’t see.

When the murderer tells Macbeth that he has killed Banquo, he says, “safe in a ditch he bides with twenty trenchèd gashes on his head, to which Macbeth replies, “thanks for that.”

4. Any key character changes or development?

In this scene, a character change or development that occurs is Macbeth expressing his internal guilt for the first time from murdering Banquo and possibly realising his mistakes. Macbeth looses character in a way, has no control, is hallucinating, and gets angry at the visions and ghost he sees.

5. What themes or ideas are presented through this scene
Inner guilt and conflict

This is a reoccurring theme which is seen every time Macbeth reflects on his actions and feels bad about the death of Duncan and Banquo.

Ambition is stronger then moral values

This theme can be seen since Macbeth committed those acts in the first place
Ambition is a blessing and a curse
Guilt in an individual can manifest into fear and paranoia

6. Symbols and motifs
Ghosts, Crown Jewels

Act 5 Scene 5 

2. What is the Percentage of Macbeth's Moral Values compared to his sense of ambition? 
Ambition 90% and moral 

 

3. Key quotes from the scene 

“She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow” 

“Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player  that struts and frets his hour upon the stage” 

“Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” 

 

4. Any key character changes or development? 

At this point in the novel Macbeth only views her death as something that was bound to happen. If Lady Macbeth were to die at the beginning before Macbeth’s spiral into madness then he would have been hurt and in misery. I think that now murder is a common act to Macbeth he doesn’t feel for it. 

 

5. What themes or ideas are presented through this? 

The idea present in Lady Macbeth’s death is that Macbeth views her passing as that life is meaningless. 

Here Macbeth for the first time feels a little bit regretful as he is too busy fighting to mourn over her death. He may also feel regret as if he didn’t carry out the murder then Lady Macbeth would not feel guilt and therefore it could have avoided her death. 

Another idea present here is the fact Macbeth is reaching into realisation about life and the importance of it. 

 

6. Are there any significant symbols or imagery present in this scene? 

Symbol it that life is compared to a candles flame. ‘Brief candle’ that could mean that her death came early 


Konrad - 

Q1:

Act 5, Scene 5, page 2

Q2:

Morals:Ambition 30:70 When lady Macbeth kills hers of, Macbeth doesn't really care and proceeds to say that everyone will die eventually and that she is insignificant. He didn't care that she killed herself and just explained that as the days go by, more and more people will die one way or another. “She would have died later anyway. That news was bound to come someday. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. The days creep slowly along until the end of time. And every day that’s already happened has taken fools that much closer to their deaths. Out, out, brief candle. Life is nothing more than an illusion. It’s like a poor actor who struts and worries for his hour on the stage and then is never heard from again. Life is a story told by an idiot, full of noise and emotional disturbance but devoid of meaning.”

Q3:

Macbeth -

Hang out our banners on the outward walls.

The cry is still “They come!” Our castle’s strength

Will laugh a siege to scorn. Here let them lie

Till famine and the ague eat them up.

Were they not forced with those that should be ours,

We might have met them dareful, beard to beard,

And beat them backward home.

What is that noise?

Seyton -

It is the cry of women, my good lord.

Macbeth -

I have almost forgot the taste of fears.

The time has been my senses would have cooled

To hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair

Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir

As life were in ’t. I have supped full with horrors.

Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts

Cannot once start me.

Wherefore was that cry?

Seyton - 

The queen, my lord, is dead.

Macbeth - 

She should have died hereafter.

There would have been a time for such a word.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

To the last syllable of recorded time,

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.