How do the interactions in act 5.2 and 5.3 further develop the character of macbeth?

Answer 1

Act V Scene 2 is a conversation among a number of Scottish Lords who have joined up with Malcolm. They do talk about Macbeth, but their remarks tell us more about them and why they left Scotland than about Macbeth himself. The suggestion is, however, that an increasing number of Scotsmen are unsatisfied with him as a king at this point. Scene 3 is more revealing, because we see Macbeth needlessly abusing one of his innocent servants, we hear him acknowledge that he is cursed (confirming the reports in the previous scene), putting on his armour and then taking it off, and dismissing the Doctor. His behaviour is so rude and erratic that the Doctor wants nothing better than to get out of there. But at the same time we see that Macbeth has acknowledged that all hope of any pleasure in life has gone, and yet he still hopes to find a cure for his wife's problems. He will lose the last vestiges of humanity when he hears of her death, the last human being for whom he has any feelings.