Macbeth Questions Act 5: How does Lady Macbeth’s behaviour affect the way the audience sees her
How does Lady Macbeth’s behaviour in Act 5, scene 1 affect the way the audience sees her?
Angus says that Macbeth’s royal title is “…like a giant’s robe/Upon a dwarfish thief” (Act 5, scene 2, lines 21-22). Explain, in your own words, what this means, and whether it is a fair description of Macbeth. Can you find other references in the play to the wearing of clothes, as a metaphor or simile (as here) for something else?
