What is the mood in the Macbeth play when lady Macbeth died?

Answer 1

Original Post:He is absolutely cold! He does not care about her death what so ever. He is about to go in to battle against King Duncan's son when it is alluded that Lady Macbeth kills herself (although it never directly says this due to the fact that suicide was a radical subject during the times of Shakespeare). He says that it would have been better if she had died at another time. There is no love or compassion, just a complete power hungry Macbeth. Comments:Suicide was not a radical subject during Shakespeare's time: a great many of his characters in tragedies commit suicide including Romeo, Juliet, Cassius, Brutus, Cleopatra, Goneril, Othello and Timon. Horatio in Hamlet seriously considers it, and Hamlet considers it somewhat less seriously. Actually Malcolm says that it was suspected that Lady Macbeth committed suicide.

It is also completely incorrect to say that Macbeth is "power hungry" at this stage of the play. His reaction to the news of Lady Macbeth's death is to go into the chilling soliloquy "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. 'Tis a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Far from wanting power for himself, he already has power for himself, and he doesn't want it any more. He doesn't want anything any more. His life is empty, meaningless.

Answer 2

Shrug of his soldiers

Macbeth was emotionless, he says something like ''she would have died hereafter''. At this point in the play, he has lost everything, and nothing means much to him any more.

Answer 3

No. He responds to the news of her death with the enigmatic "She should have died hereafter." What does he mean by that? He would have preferred to have dealt with this piece of news later, perhaps, that he had too much on his plate at this time. Or maybe that her death was untimely and that she was too young. Perhaps he is thinking that she must have committed suicide since she was not sick or dying.

In any case, he follows this ambiguous comment with one of the greatest and most terrifying of Shakespeare's soliloquys: "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. 'Tis a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

Macbeth isn't sad. He's beyond sad. His life has become a meaningless torment to him. He cannot feel sad.

Answer 4

He barely reacts. Now, he has descended so far into evil that he barely feels any emotions at all anymore.

Answer 5

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