Shakespear’s play of MacBeth is a long slow story about a knight who slowly rises to royalty after an encounter with witches, then falls into horror as the days continue. Many of today's generations have been through a school's slow, unguided process of reading this very play. Chapter five of the play is the prime example of the slow destruction that MacBeth goes through. The destruction told within the words of this chapter are set with a theme that is then left to the reader to decipher. Firstly the foreground of the play starts off with Lady Macbeth being found out as a sleepwalker and sleeptalker. Word of a few servants saying these actions were odd, the actions of walking around in her sleep acting as if she was trying to wash away something on her hands. Even her talking with the previously mentioned actions also greatly alludes to her, and her husbands, outrageous deeds, and her untold guilt. She is caught in a nightmare she created, hoping the water she once said would wash away the crime, will finally wash away the guilt and pain she had endured while her husband has recovered from the sleepless nights. …show more content…
The scene is quickly thrown into chaos in a matter of minutes. While Macbeth thinks he is safe due to the witches promise that no man born from a woman's womb would be able to take him down, the other part of the prophecy becomes true as the forest starts moving towards him. This forest comes to him, is a great disguise that Malcolm's troops pull off. Anxiety starts to fill Macbeth, as his wife's cry is heard in the distance. However Macbeth is so swallowed neck deep in his own endeavors that he doesn't even mourn the news of his now dead