Macbeth Storyboard - Act 5 Scene 1
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- Slide: 1
- A Slumbery Agitation
- A great perturbation in nature,−−to receive at once the benefit of sleep, and do the effects of watching−− In this slumbery agitation, besides her walking and other actual performances, what, have you heard her say?
- That, sir, which I will not say.
- The gentlewoman calls over the doctor and explains that Lady Macbeth has been sleepwalking. The doctor asks about what Lady Macbeth has said but the gentlewoman refuses to tell.
- Slide: 2
- Lady Macbeth Enters
- Why, it stood by her: she has light by her continually; 'tis her command.
- How came she by that light?
- Lady Macbeth enters the room with a candle. The doctor and gentlewoman observe her from a hidden place.
- Slide: 3
- Out, damn spot!
- It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands: I have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour.
- What is it she does now? Look how she rubs her hands.
- Out, damned spot! out, I say!
- As the doctor and gentlewoman continue to observe Lady Macbeth, they see her rubbing her hands as if she were washing them. Lady Macbeth then talks about the blood on her hands and how she has to wash it off. This concerns the doctor and gentlewoman.
- Lady macbeth is talking while shes sleeping walking while the doctor and Gentlewomen watch her movements
- Slide: 4
- The Secret
- Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so pale:−−I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he cannot come out on's grave.
- Is this true?
- The doctor isn't completely convinced that Lady Macbeth did something bad just from her rubbing her hands. However, when Lady Macbeth reveals that she was involved in the Banquo's murder, the doctor is shocked.
- Slide: 5
- To Bed, To bed
- Will she go now to bed?
- Directly.
- Lady Macbeth leaves and the doctor and gentlewoman are left to think about what they have just heard.
- Slide: 6
- Troubled Thoughts
- Look after her; Remove from her the means of all annoyance, And still keep eyes upon her:−−so, good−night: My mind she has mated, and amazed my sight: I think, but dare not speak.
- Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles. More needs she the divine than the physician.−− God, God, forgive us all!−−
- The doctor is deeply troubled by what he has learned about Lady Macbeth. He doesn’t want to be caught up in trouble and decides that he shouldn’t reveal Lady Macbeth’s secret. He then tells the gentlewoman to take care of Lady Macbeth and make sure she doesn't hurt herself.
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