We first reviewed all of Nina's study guide answers to Act V and thereby continued our analysis of the relationship between certain metaphorical passages and the events and characters in the play. As Nina is still having some difficulty with this task, I provided additional instruction and analytical assistance. We first worked on Malcolm's use of day/night metaphor as a foreshadowing of better days ahead for Scotland and McDuff. We then carefully parsed and analyzed Macbeth's most famous soliloquy ,"Tomorrow and tomorrow ,and tomorrow" etc. We studied the use of repetition, alliteration, and assonance in these lines and the metaphorical significance of the passage as a statement of Macbeth's nihilism. I compared Macbeth's nihilism in Act V with his Christian moral stature in Act I when he laments he can no longer pray when he most needs God's grace. We then explored the nature of Macbeth's relationship with Lady Macbeth's and noted the significance of their having no children or heirs perhaps due to Macbeth's impotence which Lady Macbeth exploits in Act I in order to induce Macbeth to kill Duncan in order to prove his manhood. Last, I reviewed the blood, water, light, and dark motifs in various portions of the play and related the imagery to hamartia. We will have our final test on the play on Friday.