Act Four
In this act, we see Macbeth in most likely his worst condition. He has become so obsessed with maintaining his power, that he is now willing to finish anybody who steps in his way. For example in this scene, Macduff appears to be an enemy to Macbeth. So what does Macbeth do to neutralize the threat? He kills Macduff's family. It is always a positive trait for a king to kill anyone who gets in his way (not really), and Macbeth shows that he has this trait when he gives the order to kill Macduff's family. Unfortunately for him, this killing spree only angers Macduff, and leads him to confront Macbeth in the next Act.
Act Five
In the concluding act of Macbeth, our main character has successfully reached the level of paranoid psychomaniac, killing his way to king and not stopping once he got there. All signs of him being a human being are gone, as shown when he is told that his wife has died, and his reaction is that she would die soon anyway, so its really not that much of a loss. In this act, Macduff and the English are launching an attack against Macbeth and the remaining loyalists in Scotland. At this point, Macbeth believes he is invincible, but is clearly proved wrong when he gets his head chopped off by Macduff in the midst of a battle for the royal castle. Finally, Macbeth has gotten what he has deserved ever since he killed Duncan, and a rightful ruler was returned to the throne.
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Macbeth continued
Act One
"Two truths are told,
As happy prologues to the swelling act
Of the imperial theme." (1.3,130-132)
Act Two
Whence is that knocking?—
How is’t with me, when every noise appals me?
What hands are here! Ha, they pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
Act Three
"So is he mine, and in such bloody distance that every minute of his being thrusts against my near'st life. And though I could with barefaced power sweep him from my sight and bid my will avouch it, yet I must not, For certain friends that are both his and minde, whose loves I may not drop, but wail his fall who i myself struck down. "
Act Four
"Your castle is surpised, your wife and babes savagely slaughtered. To relate the manner were on the quarry of these murdered deer to add death to you."
Act Five
"She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word."
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