By: Mike, Justin and Kody Macbeth Act 5 scenes 8 & 9 By: Mike, Justin and Kody

Summary Scene 8 Macbeth is the only one defending Dunsinane while Scottish and English forces take over the castle. He goes out and faces Macduff. At first he is confident he’ll win until he learns that Macduff was born via C- section. After that, he knows he’ll die and refuses to fight. Macduff taunts him, they resume fighting and Macbeth loses his head.

Purpose (Scene 8) The purpose of this scene is to show and explain how Macbeth realizes he has been tricked by the witches. It also shows how he has failed due to his lust for power. This also brings suspense in the entire play.

How It Works This scene has a lot of figures of speech and literary devices. There is a classical allusion (Macbeth refusing to play the “Roman fool”), chalk full of wordplay, reveals new information (Macduff revealing to be “strip’d from the womb”), foreshadowing (Macbeth realizing he will die if he fought him and imagery.

Summary Scene 9 Malcolm and Siward arrive into Dunsinane. Siward doesn’t know his son is dead when they arrive. Ross meets the two and reveals to Siward that his son has been killed. He accepts the fact and deems it alright. Macduff meets Malcolm and Siward and presents the head of Macbeth. Malcolm is proclaimed king and gives his thanes and kinsmen the title of earl.

Purpose Scene 9 Scene nine reveals the last bit of ending information. Malcolm gets crowned king and the good guys win. This shows that in the end the tyrant always loses. This can relate to real life and wars.

How it works Scene 9 Scene nine does not have as much literary devices like scene eight. It does reveal information and Malcom delivers a speech at the end of the end of the scene once he is crowned king. “ We shall not spend a large expense of time before we reckon with your several loves, and make us even with you. My thanes and kinsmen, henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland in such an honour named. What’s more to do, which would be planted newly with the time, as calling home our exiled friends abroad that fled the snares of watchful tyranny, producing forth the cruel ministers of this dead butcher, and his fiend-like queen, who, as ‘tis thought, by self and violent hands took off her life; this, and what needful else that calls upon us, by the grace of Grace, we will perform in measure, time, and place: so thanks to all at once and to each one, whom we invite to see us crown’d at Scone.