Macbeth Act 4-5 Model Answers

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English Year 8

Macbeth Act 4-5 Model answers

Act 4

1. Example Answer: No, I don’t because he was responsible for his own choices and controlled his fate by murdering his friend and betraying his king.

2. Example answer: Yes he would because he risked his life for his country and chose to come back for his people to save them from the harsh rule of Macbeth plus that his father was a loyal king whom he admired. Also, he was determined to go back and get revenge for his father and claim his throne.

3. Example answer: Macduff- He took a sensible position from the beginning knowing that there is something wrong about Duncan’s murder; he sacrificed his life and left his family behind to help Malcolm set the army and go back to free Scotland.

4. Macbeth comes.

5. He is demanding, trying to take charge. He is no longer intimidated by them.

6. They showed him an armed head, a bloody child, a crowned child with a tree in its hand, and, finally, eight kings followed by Banquo's ghost. Respectively, they showed/told Macbeth to beware of Macduff, that he would not be harmed by anyone "born of woman," that he would not be vanquished until Birnam Wood would come to Dunsinane, and that Banquo's descendants would be kings.

7. He is damned and a fool to have believed them.

8. He is in England helping Malcolm.

9. Macduff is not loyal to Macbeth, and Macbeth is angry. He wanted him to come back so that he could kill him too.

10. He implies that since there are more of them than honest people, they should get together and hang the honest folks. They are foolish to leave themselves in jeopardy when they could overcome the honest people.

11. The devil was, of course, at one time the brightest angel. The point is that things aren't what they seem. One can't judge the book by its cover, so-to-speak.

12. Malcolm has just told him what a horrid king he (Malcolm) would be if he were on the throne instead of Macbeth. Given a choice, then, between Malcolm and Macbeth, he gravely fears for his country's future. He is mourning for the state of his country and his people suffering.

13. Ross brings news of Macduff's family's murders.

Act 5

1. Example answer: It is a reasonable ending because they all got what they deserved: Macbeth and Lady Macbeth paid their lives for their actions and Malcolm was appointed the throne which was his right.

2. Example answer: He was a brave warrior showing dignity in defeat as he refused to surrender and fought till the last minute accepting his fate.

3. Example answer: Yes, it is because he chose to be evil when he had the chance to be the hero; however, he was chosen to believe that it is fate by following his wife and believing blindly in the witches’ prophecies.

4. Example answer: They were both insane. Their dark thoughts took over their minds hence controlling their actions. Macbeth started seeing visions of Banquo’s ghost which represented his fears and Lady Macbeth lost her sanity by sleep walking and imagining washing blood off of her hands which she felt couldn’t take off. I find Macbeth more sympathetic because when he learnt of his wife’s death he was sorrowful and was feeling guilty but he had no chance to purify himself from his sins and change to a better person.

5. Duncan: Fair king/ loved and respected by everyone.

Macbeth: Tyrant/ Cruel and merciless

Macduff: Wise and brave

Malcolm: Smart/ Courageous/ powerful/ strategic

Banquo: Wise/ not manipulated easily/ has faith/ loyal

Best king: Opinion

There are other possibilities to the above question.

6. Positive: Malcolm- claiming the throne because it is his right

Negative: Macbeth- killing Duncan to claim something that is not his

7. Not to let greed take over your thoughts. Be ambitious but not greedy. Loyalty is important. Fight for your country. Know that all negative actions have consequences. Earn power and title don’t gain it.

8. She is sleepwalking and talking about the murders. The doctor decides his best move is to not mention that he heard anything, and he tells the woman to keep an eye on Lady Macbeth.

9. He wants the doctor to ease her suffering, to give her something to make her oblivious to her weighty troubles.

10. He has his men cut off tree branches and use them as camouflage.

11. Macbeth's armies are there in body only, not in spirit, and there should not be any serious opposition.

12. He takes it very calmly, saying she would have died sooner or later, anyway. He wished he had more time to grieve for her properly; lost hope and compared life to an actor who is performing for a play.

13. He's going to fight to the bitter end and take down the whole universe with him, if necessary.

14. Young Siward fights Macbeth and is slain.

15. Macbeth doesn't want to fight Macduff; he has already killed Macduff's family.

16. He knows this is his end when Macduff tells him he was taken from his mother's womb instead of being "born of woman."

17. Macduff fights him and beheads him.

18. Malcolm will be king.