ACT 5 SCENE 8

Enter MACBETH
MACBETH
Why should I play the Roman fool and die
On mine own sword? Whiles I see lives, the
gashes Do better upon them.
Play the roman fool - The Romans that Macbeth
refers to considered suicide to be an honourable way
out of an impossible situation. The gashes Do
better upon them. - Macbeth likes to see blood.
There is extended blood imagery in the duologue.
Enter MACDUFF
MACDUFF
Turn, hellhound, turn!
Macduff's choice of "Hell-hound" is recalling his
earlier description of Macbeth as a "Hell-kite swoops"
(Act IV, Scene 3), meaning that he is killing his
belongs in a foul way confirms the true nature of the
tyrant king. (like he has come hell) - Also he is not
really a hellhound (dog) so it is imagery.

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MACBETH
Of all men else I have avoided thee.
But get thee back. My soul is too much charged
With blood of thine already.
Of all men else I have avoided thee. -
Macbeth has avoided Macduff in the fight, not
because he is afraid of him but he thinks he is
invincible, but he feels guilty towards Macduff, and
does not want to kill Macduff to add to the death of his
wife and children. Shakespeare added this to regains
our sympathy for Macbeth, he is a great a criminal,
but he is also human. My soul is too much
charged With blood of thine already. - Macbeth is
saying that the murders of Macduffs wife and children
are on his conscience, so he doesn't want to shed
Macduff's blood.
MACDUFF
I have no words.
My voice is in my sword. Thou bloodier villain
Than terms can give thee out!
My voice is in my sword.- Metaphor
Thou bloodier villain Than terms can give thee
out!- Macduff thinks macbeth is too evil for words.
They fight

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MACBETH
Thou losest labor.
As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air With thy
keen sword impress as make me bleed.
Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests;
I bear a charmd life, which must not yield To
one of woman born.
As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air With thy
keen sword impress as make me bleed simile
I bear a charmd life, which must not yield To
one of woman born. - Imagery macbeth leads a
royal life which cannot be taken by someone born
from a women.

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MACDUFF
Despair thy charm,
And let the angel whom thou still hast served
Tell thee, Macduff was from his mothers womb
Untimely ripped.
let the angel whom thou still hast served Tell
thee - Reference to devils and angels.
Macduff was from his mothers womb untimely
ripped. - Macduff was born through caesarean.


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MACBETH
Accursd be that tongue that tells me so,
For it hath cowed my better part of man!
And be these juggling fiends no more believed,
That palter with us in a double sense,
That keep the word of promise to our ear, And
break it to our hope. Ill not fight with thee.
For it hath cowed my better part of man! -
Macduff has made Macbeth lose his courage.
Ill not fight with thee. - Macbeth Refuses to fight.


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MACDUFF
Then yield thee, coward,
And live to be the show and gaze o' th' time.
Well have thee, as our rarer monsters are,
Painted on a pole, and underwrit,Here may
you see the tyrant.
Then yield thee, coward - He is telling Macbeth to
surrender or fight him.
Monsters - Super natural it also mean strange
animals.
Painted on a pole - They are painting their
enemies blood on a pole for everyone to see how
many wins they have.


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MACBETH
I will not yield,
To kiss the ground before young Malcolms
feet, And to be baited with the rabbles curse.
Though Birnam Wood be come to Dunsinane,
And thou opposed, being of no woman born,
Yet I will try the last. Before my body
I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff, And
damned be him that first cries, Hold, enough!
I will not yield, To kiss the ground before young
Malcolms feet, And to be baited with the rabbles
curse.- What Macbeth is trying to say is he is not
going to back down and He is not going to apologize
for what he has done because it is already done. -
And that he does not what Malcolm to be king of
Scotland.
And to be baited with the rabbles curse -
Macbeth didnt want to be taunted by the common
people.
Birnam Wood be come to Dunsinane - Relate an
activity back to the prophesy.
Lay on, Macduff, And damned be him that first
cries, Hold, enough! - Internal rhyme with lay on
and hold, enough
Exeunt, fighting. Alarums. They enter fighting,
and MACBETH slain. Retreat. Flourish. Enter,
with drum and
colours MALCOLM, SIWARD, ROSS,THANES
, and SOLDIERS