Act V

Vocabulary
1. abhorred - to regard with extreme repugnance
2. arbitrate - to act as arbiter upon
3. avouch - to declare as a matter of fact or as a thing that can be proved
4. brandish - to shake or wave menacingly
5. breach - infraction or violation of a law, obligation, tie, or standard
6. cling - to hold together
7. constrain - to force by imposed stricture, restriction, or limitation
8. dismal - showing or causing gloom or depression
9. epicure - one devoted to sensual pleasure
10. equivocation - to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive
11. fiend - a person of great wickedness or maliciousness
12. harbinger - a person sent ahead to provide lodgings
13. interchange - to change places mutually
14. mortify - to destroy the strength, vitality, or functioning of
15. murky - characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like
      that caused by overhanging fog or smoke
16. perilous - full of or involving peril
17. perturbation - the action of perturbing
18. pristine - belonging to the earliest period or state
19. prowess - distinguished bravery
20. purgative - purging or tending to purge
21. purge - to clear of guilt
22. rhubarb - a heated dispute or controversy
23. sheath - a case for a blade
24. siege - a seat of distinction
25. slumber - to sleep lightly
26. speculative - involving, based on, or constituting intellectual speculation
27. stake - a pointed piece of wood or other material driven or to be driven
      into the ground as a marker or support
28. tarry - to delay or be tardy in acting or doing
29. upbraid - to criticize severely
30. usurper - to seize and hold
31. whey - the watery part of milk that is separated from the coagulable part
      or curd especially in the process of making cheese and that is rich in lactose,
      minerals, and vitamins and contains lactalbumin and traces of fat
 
 
 

What do you know about sleepwalking syndrome? What could have caused such disorder? Do research on line and find the answer. In Lady Macbeth's case, what could have caused such a disorder in her?
What I know about the sleepwalking syndrome is that most people go through it when they have suffered many problems or tramatic experiences in life.  I know that some people go to a therapist to ask for help while others think solving the problem will cure them.
I think what caused Lady Macbeth to sleepwalk was all the killing that was around her.  She started to feel bad for all the trouble that has been comitted.  In my opinion lady Mackbeths wrong doing came back to haunt her in the form of sleepwalking.
For some, the episodes of sleepwalking occur less than once per month and do not result in harm to the patient or others. Others experince episodes more than once per month, but not nightly, and do not result in harm to the patient or others. In its most severe form, the episodes occur almost nightly or are associated with physical injury.

Medieval Warfare
Read the web site on medieval warfare and read about the subject. Write 250 -word report telling your readers what you know about the subject.

Throughout researching on medievel warfare I have learned that medieval warfare is generally perceived as battles between hosts of knights in armor charging each other with various different weapons.  The clanging of weapons on armor, the shouting of the knights, chivalrous surrenders, the celebration of the winners, and the general lack of casualties due to the heavy armor worn by all seems to be the most important aspect of the whole event.
Another fact that I have learned about medievel warfare is that many people have the wrong perception about it.  Throughout out research I have found that many books on medievel warfare state false facts.

Act 5, Scene 1: Lady Macbeth's waiting-gentlewoman tells a doctor that Lady Macbeth is sleep-walking.  Lady Macbeth walks and talks in her sleep, revealing guilty secrets.

Act 5, Scene 2: The Scottish forces that are against Macbeth are on the march. The Scottish leaders comment on Macbeth's desperate rage.

Act 5, Scene 3: Macbeth hears that his thanes are abandoning him, he also hears that the English army is close and will be approaching soon, and that his wife is soul-sick, but he tries to convince himself that he has nothing to fear, and prepares to fight.

Act 5, Scene 4: The forces opposed to Macbeth enter Birnam wood, and Malcolm gives the order for every soldier to cut a tree branch and hold it before him.

Act 5, Scene 5: Macbeth expresses his defiance of the forces marching against him, then hears a cry of women and receives the news of his wife's death.  A messenger reports that Birnam woods is coming to Dunsinane; Macbeth goes out to meet his fate.

Act 5, Scene 6: The English and Scottish forces, which are led by Malcolm, begin their attack upon Dunsinane.

Act 5, Scene 7: Macbeth fights Young Siward to the death.  Malcolm and Siward take possession of Dunsinane.

Act 5, Scene 8: Macduff and Macbeth do battle. Macbeth boasts that he cannot be harmed by "one of woman born," but Macduff replies that he was "from his mother's womb / Untimely ripp'd." They fight on and Macduff kills Macbeth. . . . Malcolm, Siward and the rest enter. Siward receives the news of his son's heroic death. . . . Macduff enters with the head of Macbeth. Malcolm is hailed king of Scotland, whereupon he rewards his followers and invites all to see him crowned.