 Studying Macbeth, here's how you can analyse that five scene five. The scene starts in Macbeth's castle in High Dunstanane Hill. Here he's saying that he wants the banners to be hung and he speaks in Iron Bit Pentameter showing that he feels really confident about the war. He's actually hanging the banners in order to announce that he is waiting for the rebel troops. Yet the same directions indicate that women in another part of his castle are wailing and crying as if somebody has died. Macbeth is confused and Satan, his chief servant who is going to also fight alongside him, confirms that there are women who are grieving about somebody's death. The stage directions show that Satan is leaving. Then he comes back and he announces to Macbeth the Queen My Lord is dead. In other words, he has found out that Lady Macbeth has died really suddenly. Macbeth's response is surprising. He says she should have died hereafter. In other words, what he's saying is she should have chosen a better time to die. Here we can see that Macbeth and his relationship with his wife has changed. He's now really irritated with her death. He sees it as an inconvenience. Yet her death triggers him to consider his life and Shakespeare uses repetition of the words tomorrow to show that Macbeth is now contemplating and reflecting on his own life. Macbeth then says all our yesterdays have lighted fools. Here we can see that time is personified. He's basically saying that as he reflects on his past actions, he now starts to see some of the mistakes he has made. Macbeth then uses this really powerful metaphor where he compares how brief his life is to a candle in the wind. He uses more metaphors to compare his life to a shadow and a poor player that fruits and struts his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. In other words, what Macbeth is now starting to do is experience what we call a cathartic moment. He is wondering whether he has actually made a mistake becoming king and betraying King Duncan. A messenger then enters to report to Macbeth and he seems really distressed by what he has seen. He tells Macbeth I looked towards Burnham and anon me thought the wood began to move. What he's saying here is he's worried because he thinks he saw Burnham wood walking towards them. Macbeth first refuses to believe what the messenger says and he threatens to hang him if this is not true. Yet privately Macbeth says he begins to doubt the equivocation of the fiend. Here we can see that he's starting to wonder if the apparitions as well as the witches misled him by speaking in half truths and whether he's gonna actually die. He further reflects on the third apparition and what it said about Great Burnham Wood and High Donsonane Hill and he wonders whether they will betray him and lead to his own downfall. Yet he speaks in these exclamatory sentences to show that he is ready to fight either way.