Up to this point things have gone well for the main character – now things will go rapidly downhill.Īct 3: Macbeth becomes King Banquo is murdered and Fleance escapes Macduff joins Malcolm in England.
#Act 5 scene 5 macbeth series#
Introduces the characters, setting, events and key ideas.Īct 1: Main characters are introduced the Witches make their predictions thoughts of murder start to form.Ī series of related events occur leading up to the key moment in the plot.Īct 2: Macbeth keeps changing his mind Lady Macbeth takes control King Duncan’s murder (key moment).
How this applies to Macbeth is shown in the table: Stages Freytag's pyramid shows how a drama is divided into five acts He named these stages: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and catastrophe.
Having carefully studied classical drama, he suggested there were five stages in a tragic dramatic structure. The idea of the five-act structure is a useful one, though, as it follows the model designed by Gustav Freytag, a German author from the 19th-century. However, it is important to note that Shakespeare himself almost certainly did not organise the play in this way and that this structure would have been added later during the editing process when the plays were turned into published text after being performed that way. The events of this play are organised into five acts, each containing a number of scenes. Others happen offstage (out of sight of the audience) for example, Duncan's murder. Sometimes events are described rather than shown (eg Macbeth becoming king). This is where events are revealed to the audience/reader in the order in which they have happened. In the case of Macbeth, the structure is strictly chronological. The structure of a text refers to the way in which events are organised inside the play as a whole.
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