As Nina completed reading the play, we studied how the play's concluding scene-the crowning of Malcolm- serves to restore order in society and in the universe which was disrupted by Macbeth's murder of the king in Act I . Nina discussed Lady Macbeth's suicide, and we contrasted Lady Macbeth's overpowering remorse in the final act with her unbridled avarice and ambition in the first act. Next ,we studied Macbeth's decision to fight to his death rather than surrender as he at last recognizes that the witches' prophesies were an evil deception that induced all of his subsequent murderous acts. During the second half of the session we watched the Kennedy Center's production of Act V of the play.