Act 4 & 5 Questions

1) The decision to murder MacDuffs family shows that MacBeth is a very cruel man and that he has no sympathy for anyone and that the greed at being at the top has taken over him.

2) The purpose of the scene with lady MacDuff and her son is to show the personality and the values that they have and also the hidden feelings that they had about MacDuff and it really came out in those parts.

3) Malcom test MacDuff by saying things like how if Malcom were to be the king and how corrupt that he would be and that was basically a test to MacDuff to see if he would get mad at Malcom to prove his loyalty and on how MacDuff would run the country the right way.

4) MacDuff receives the news of his loss by a messenger that came to see him and to tell him that his castle had been taken over and that his whole family had been slaughtered by MacBeth.

ACT 5

1) no to me this dosent come to me as a surprise because she seemed very crazy from the beginning. And I had the feeling that something was going to happen to her.

2) I think that the thing responsible for MacBeths death is his greed because he had let his greed and need for power take over him and has caused him to make some bad decisions which needed up angering many people and it ended up killing him.

3) I think that his opinion of them is very naive and very confused because he doesn't know if he wants them to be good people or bad.

4) he recorded it from the doctor telling him that she had just passed.

5) by finding him and then saying his last thing before he kills him.

6) that he was the best fit to go and become the king.