its urgent..culd ne 1 plz giv me an explanation if macbeth act 5 scene 1??
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Act V � Scene.i\n\nSummary\n\nLady Macbeth suffers from a psychological disorder and she sleepwalks and talks in fits and starts, remembering events from the murders of Duncan and also references to Banquo and Lady Macduff.  Her doctor and maid overhear her incriminating words.\n\n \n\nInterpretation\n\nThe audience are now witness to a dramatic change in Lady Macbeth from the early scenes of the play. She is now truly mad and her mind flits from one subject to the next.  She can still see the blood on her hands and however much she washes, she cannot get rid of the stain.\n\n�Out damned spot: out I say. The Thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now? What will these hands never be clean? ��������.  Here�s the smell of blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand�.\n\n \n\nIt is sad to see this once confident woman turned into a gibbering creature, muttering incoherently.  Those who attend her, the doctor and maid, are clearly suspicious of her and the part she played in the recent murders. The doctor is unable to bring about a cure and suggests that some divine intervention is required, and she would be better seeing a priest.  Shakespeare creates a black atmosphere through the words and the fact that this scene is played in complete darkness with the exception of one candle, which Lady Macbeth keeps close by her.  She is now concerned about her immortal soul and hopes that she can find rest in another world, for at present she undergoes a sleepless existence.
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Hamlet Act 3 only goes to Scene 4 (The Queens Closet).  You are missing Scene 5.
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1. At the end of which Act...? Act III? Romeo of course does not wish to leave Verona, but he must in order to survive. Both are miserably unhappy. As Juliet learns she must be wed to Paris, she becomes angry and rebels against her father. In the end, she feels like everyone has turned on her--even the Nurse. She goes to seek help from the only person she trusts--Friar Lawrence. Not sure that this answers your question, though.\n\n2. Romeo feels responsible for Mercutio's death because Mercutio was stabbed under his arm (Act III, Scene i). He was trying to prevent Mercutio and Tybalt from fighting, as he has recently married Juliet (Tybalt's cousin). His guilt and rage over this accident lead him to attack and kill Tybalt, which ultimately leads to his banishment from Verona.\n\n3. Shakespeare uses the images of darkness and light quite frequently. When Romeo first meets Juliet, he compares her to a star in the sky or a jewel in the ear of an African (Act I, Scene v). He also compares her to a dove amidst crows. Later, on the balcony, he compares her to the sun (Act II, Scene ii). Juliet hopes that when Romeo dies, he will become the stars in the sky, so that "all the world will fall in love with night." (not sure of the exact spot but I think it's Act III, Scene ii).
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Deeds, not words shall speak me. \nJohn Fletcher\nEnglish dramatist (1579 - 1625) \n\nHe's saying that he will speak with action, not just by words themselves. Many people blow hot air, few go out and do something about it.
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It is a mystery story. You are trying to put together the pieces of this supposed haunting. I haven't read the book, but I saw the play. It was awful.
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You have to be specific about the part you're not understanding. The most important part of this scene is Hal's soliloquy at the very end. It's written in blank verse showing us that Hal is capable of kingly qualities. (In the entire play, the royalty etc. talk in blank verse while the tavern people talk in prose. Hal had also been talking in prose with his friends right before this soliloquy). The soliloquy shows us his Machiavellian traits - he's capable of manipulation and knows exactly what he wants to achieve by hanging out with Falstaff etc. In the soliloquy, he also uses metaphors like sun and clouds which further show us that he is capable of becoming the king. I can give further explanations if you tell me what exactly you are having trouble with.
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Study hard, study more and keep on studying!!! lol, it would prevent this story to happen from the begining!
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Tybalt's death turns the play to a tragedy.\n\nThings are going great for Romeo. He's just married Juliet, the love of his life. Everything is perfect until about an hour or so after his wedding to Juliet, when he kills Tybalt.\n\nPer the Prince's decree in Act I, Scene i, anyone caught engaging in a civil brawl will be put to death. Romeo should be killed. Instead, Prince Escalus exiles him. Here's where everything starts going wrong.\n\nJuliet gets sad and wants to kill herself. Her daddy wants her to marry Count Paris. Everything sucks. So she goes to see Friar Lawrence, who gives her the potion which will make her appear dead.\n\nUnfortunately, Romeo does not receive the Friar's message that Juliet is just faking her death. He thinks she has really died. He goes to her tomb and quaffs the poison. When Juliet wakes up, she finds Romeo dead. Despite Friar Lawrence's protest, she refuses to leave and stabs herself with the dagger.\n\nThe play is a tragedy because it has an unhappy ending and because the heroes (Romeo and Juliet) are brought down by their fatal flaws (their immaturity and impatience).
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King Lear is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.   The whole play is about lack of compromise.  \n\nGoneril poisoned her sister Regan and then killed herself.  These sites should be quite helpful to you.  Best of luck with your work.
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Juliet ~ "Yond light is not day-light, I know it, I :  It is some meteor that the sun exhales, To be to thee this night a torch-bearer, and light thee on thy way to Mantua:  Therefore stay yet; thou need'st not to be gone."  Act 3, Scene 5\nMercutio ~ Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, ‘tis enough. / Where is my page?  Go, villain, fetch a surgeon.”\nTybalt ~ “Romeo, the hate I bear thee can afford / No better term than this: thou art a villain.”\nBenvolio ~ "Tell me in sadness, who is it that you love?" Act 1, Scene 1\nFriar Laurence ~ "So smile the heavens upon this holy act, That after hours with sorrow chide us not!" Act 3, Scene 6\nBalthasar ~ "I do beseech you sir, have patience:   your looks are pale and wild, and do import some misadventure."\nNurse ~ "Merry, farewell!  I pray you, sir, what saucy merchant was this, that was so full of his ropery?"\nServant ~ "God gi' god-den  I pray, sir, can you read?"\n\nThe quotes should be self-explanatory~if not, re-read the acts to gain the descriptive portion of your question.
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*conflict- many instances of conflicts in this play. Montagues vs. capulets, mercutio vs. tybalt, romeo vs. paris and many more!!!!!\n     *climax- the point of the story where everything is exciting, everything is glorious, great, or magnificent! everything goes downhill from there. i think theclimax is either in the balcony scene or the party.\n     *falling action- secret wedding and after.\n     *resolution- either romeo and juliet's death, romeo's banishment, when romeo buys the poison (?), or when Juliet makes plans with friar lawerence (?)\n     *i know this isn't muc, but it's a starting point!!!!! my class just finished the romeo and juliet unit, so this stuff is fresh in my mind. i'm REALLY sry that i can't figure out the resolution, but if you've read the play thru, you should be able to choose one of these answers!!!!! good luck with your project and grades!!!!!
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Well, I don't know if it's a motif, exactly, but you've got the theme right away of the Witches, who have their own agenda in the whole picture, and pop up now and then; the motif of "prophecies". Although Macbeth wants to believe they're all true, he scoffs at the idea that he would be defeated by one who was not born of woman. Lady Macbeth is actually more vicious and ambitious than he. By trying to avoid the various warnings re: Banquo et al, they bring about their own doom.\n\nI think Act 2, brings out more that Macbeth's "underlings" actually posess more leadership than he.\n\nHope that helps a little bit.
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I dunno if this'll help, but I thought I'd give it a try . . .\nI just read through Macbeth with my lil' bro a little while ago, and I'm rereading Othello now, and it's funny that you ask about the inevitability of prohecies and the first prophecy he gets, because even though there are no prophecies in Othello, Iago does say something about deals with the devil.\nI don't have the book on me, so I can't give a direct quote, but, Iago compares himself to a devil and says that the reason he tells the truth in the beginning of his evil scheme to bring about Othello's downfall is because a demon (or in Hamlet's case a witch) will give you bits of the truth in order to lure you into dealing with them.  That way you will think that they aren't evil, because an evil being would lie.  Does that make sense? \nSo when he saw the first prophecy come true without any action on his part, he thought it would be okay to help the rest of them along, because it was his destiny and not evil magic.  I think the irony is that whether or not he killed Duncan the prophecy should have come true.  Or maybe it was foretold that he would kill Duncan, and the witches just neglected to tell him that part, and knowing that he would, let Lady MacB goad him into it.\nI never read "The Bottle Imp", but it sounds interesting, I think I'll give it a try.\nHope that helps!
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Ok, I will help - but I will not give you the answers, that's not help.  If the Shakespearean-era language is difficult to get through, I suggest checking out a noted version of the play (Penguin Publishing has some excellent, quite affordable paperback versions) to help you understand who's saying what.  You might also try to find a full production of the play or a video version. (Zeffirelli's is visually stunning, but leaves out a lot of the by-play.  The newer version with DiCaprio & what's-her-name is visually odd, but leaves in more of the dialogue.  Most libraries also will have the odd BBC or Canadian production in their media library, and these are usually complete dialogue without anything too extreme in the way of visuals.)\n\n1. Think about social conventions of the time - Juliet is a young, unmarried but highly marriageable woman.  Also, think about any parents' natural reaction if they were to find their daughter in the company of any young man - especially if that young man was a member of a family you hated.\n\n2 & 4 are very closely related.  Think about modern divorce rates in marriages that are made quickly - then think about a society where annulments were possible but difficult and divorce as such was not really an option.\n\n3. Reread the scene, and think about Juliet being a young woman besotted, while the nurse is somewhat of a doddering old lady who tends to ramble on and on and on (and some of her lines do amount to Elizabethan toilet humour, by the way).\n\n5.  Think about the purpose of a foil.  Mercutio & Nurse are both close to the main characters, and marginally involved/possibly condoning their behaviours.  Pick out a few key points in the act and you should have no trouble getting 8 to 10 sentences.  For example, do these characters encourage this lovelorn behaviour between the main characters? How? Why?\n\nPersonal sidenote/pet peeve about this play: Why does everyone perform the Queen Mab speech as though it's a huge dramatic foreshadowing?  It is, even the densest people grasp that after seeing the play once - but keep in mind Mercutio's playful, sarcastic character - why on earth would he of a sudden burst into this long prophetic rant?  I've gotten a few people to read it as a mocking, sarcastic sort of monologue, and have been far more pleased with it...
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You may want to mention that Banquo highlights the change in Macbeth's personality.  They were friends and then Macbeth had him murdered.  Macbeth became power-hungry. Banquo was also curious--remember the witches predictions about Banquo being the father of leaders.  Banquo's ghost is symbolic of Macbeth's conscience.  You may also want to note the name play that Shakespeare used:  Banquo was killed when he was to be present at a banquet.  Get it?  Banquo Banquet.  Same as his son; he tells his son Fleance to Flee. Fleance-Flee.  Shakespeare does that a lot.
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OMG my class read this play recently... crap lol. i totally forgot, and my teacher took up everyones notes to grade. they would have really helped. This play was a real pain in the rear.  Although i do remember that Brutus was well respected in the Roman community, but he does wrong things, but for the right reason, of course (like the death of caesar). he thought that caesar was a threat to rome.
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Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.elook.org/literature/shakespeare/romeo-and-juliet/\n\nI have found 12 summaries for you to look at, click the link below. I have included a short extract to give you a taste of what the reviews have to offer and they’re FREE..!!!\n\nNotes:  Act 1 Scene 2.\n\nIn this brief scene, the audience learns more about Juliet, the heroine of the play who has not yet been introduced on the stage. She is young girl of fourteen and obviously Capulet's pride and joy. The father says of Juliet that "the earth has swallowed all hopes but she." When Paris asks Capulet for her hand in marriage, he hesitates at first; then he says that he will agree if the idea pleases Juliet. In the thirteenth century, when noble marriages were usually arranged by the family, it is a loving father who wants to please his child. His concern for Juliet is similar to the concern for Romeo revealed by Lady Montague in the first scene. Even though these families hate one another, they dearly love their children.  More…….\n\nhttp://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/romeo5.asp\n\n\nhttp://summarycentral.tripod.com/romeoandjuliet.htm\n\nhttp://www.freebooknotes.com/book.php3?id=363\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=Romeo+And+Juliet+\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=Romeo+And+Juliet+\n\nhttp://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xRomeoJul.html#Romeo\n\nhttp://drb.lifestreamcenter.net/Lessons/RomJul/index.htm\n\nhttp://www.clicknotes.com/\n\nAn analysis of the play by Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.theatrehistory.com/british/romeoandjuliet001.html\n\nhttp://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xRomeoJul.html#Characters\n\nhttp://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barrons/romeojl11.asp\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.