07/02/2021

TEXTUAL ANALYSIS - ACT V SCENE 5:

In Act V scene 5, Macbeth turns and sees the army arrive. Suddenly, a woman screams. Seyton investigates and returns with the news that Lady Macbeth is dead. Macbeth makes a speech on the lie.

One of the most important topics in this little soliloquy is the consensus of time, how people can change time, and him as change for the worse, because it can't be anymore. In fact, in these lines the sense, the sense of taste, but also the sense of hearing appears to everyone. In the punctual passive he satiated to the maximum of horrors.

The most important part of the whole game is when Sayton informs Macbeth that Lady Macbeth is dead.

Shakespeare says that the life of a human being is limited by the segment he is given to live, it is comparable (through metaphors) to the piece of theatre that an actor has to play on stage. "And of which then nothing is heard anymore", because if I compare my life to the piece that the actor has to interpret on stage, it is clear that when he has finished his line, nothing is heard of him, so our life is a short segment, which when it comes to an end, no one will hear more of our life. In Macbeth's reaction the observer, or the reader, understands Macbeth's reflection of life. The personification of the shadow. The reflection of Macbeth's life is totally conditioned by the image of horrors.