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Macbeth Act 5 questions help please !!!

 

mak n #240663
Apr 01, 2012 12:04 PM

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Macbeth Act 5 questions help please !!!

Ive looked everywhere and I still dont understand these questions please help.

1.What is significant about Macbeth being tricked in a “double sense”
2.Macbeth is killed brutally. How does this parallel another event early in the play?
3.What prophesy was not fulfilled

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Aslan
Apr 01, 2012 12:18 PM

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1. By act 5 Macbeth realizes that the witches prophesies are riddles meant to be his undoing. This whole play centres around "equivocation" or as you say "double sense".


2. I suppose you are alluding to Duncan bing stabbed in his sleep.


3. Banquo's son does not become king.
 

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