Shakespeare in Singlish - Macbeth, Act 5

Act 5, Scene 1

In the castle, Lady Macbeth's waiting lady was telling the doctor about how Lady Macbeth has been sleepwalking when Lady Macbeth appeared holding a candle, and apparently sleepwalking.

DOCTOR
You see her eyes are open.

GENTLEWOMAN
Ay, but their sense is shut.

DOCTOR
What is it she does now? Look, how she rubs her hands.

GENTLEWOMAN
It is an accustomed action with her to seem thus washing her hands. I have
known her continue in this a quarter of an hour.

LADY MACBETH
Out, damned spot! Out, I say!—One, two. Why, then, ’tis time to do ’t. Hell is
murky!—Fie, my lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows
it, when none can call our power to account?—Yet who would have thought the
old man to have had so much blood in him.

(Translation)
Oui! come out leh dirty spot! Out, I command you! One, two.
Ok, it's time to do it then. Hell is murky!
Rubbish lah, my lord, rubbish!
You are a soldier leh, how can be afraid?
Why so scared, when nobody can lay the guilt upon us?
But then hor, this old man really got a lot of blood hor.

LADY MACBETH
Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten
this little hand. Oh, Oh, Oh!

(Translation)
Still got blood smell leh. All the perfumes from Arabia also not enough
to make this little hand smell good! Walau, walau, walau!

However the doctor could not do anything to cure Lady Macbeth of sleep walking, so he told her waiting lady to bring her to the priest instead.

Act 5, Scene 2

Macbeth was fortifying his castle at Dunsinane with heavy defenses in preparation of Malcolm and Macduff's army.

Act 5, Scene 3

As Macbeth prepared himself for war, he heard that his thanes have fled away from him to join the England force.

MACBETH
Bring it after me.
I will not be afraid of death and bane,
Till Birnam Forest come to Dunsinane.

(Translation)
Bring the armor and follow me.
I will not be afraid of death and defeat,
until Birnam Forest can walk to Dunsinane.

Act 5, Scene 4

Malcolm and his army have reached the Birnam Forest.

MALCOLM
Let every soldier hew him down a bough
And bear ’t before him. Thereby shall we shadow
The numbers of our host and make discovery
Err in report of us.

(Translation)
Tell every soldier to break off a branch
and hold in front of him. Then we can hide
there are actually how many of us here and then
Macbeth's spies will report inaccurate number of us.

Act 5, Scene 5

MACBETH
Hang out our banners on the outward walls.
The cry is still “They come!” Our castle’s strength
Will laugh a siege to scorn. Here let them lie
Till famine and the ague eat them up.
Were they not forced with those that should be ours,
We might have met them dareful, beard to beard,
And beat them backward home.

(Translation)
Go hang our flags on the outer walls.
Everyone go shout "Here they come!". Our castle is strong enough
to laugh off their seige lah. They can tan ku ku
until they die of hunger and disease.
KNN, if not because our people go and join them,
we could have fight them face to face
and beat them until they go balek kampong.

Macbeth was then told that Lady Macbeth has died.

MACBETH
She should have died hereafter.
There would have been a time for such a word.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time

(Translation)
Aiyah, anyway she will die sooner or later.
This news is bound to come someday.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.
The days creep slowly along until the end of time.

Another messenger brought an even graver news. He saw the Birnam Forest moving.

MACBETH
Arm, arm, and out!
If this which he avouches does appear,
There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here.
I 'gin to be aweary of the sun,
And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.

(Translation)
Oui! Prepare for war!
If what he said is true,
then no use running away or staying here liao.
I also sianz of living liao,
now I want to see the whole world plunged into chaos.

Act 5, Scene 6

Malcolm's army arrived at the castle gate and threw away the tree branches.

MACDUFF
Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath,
Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.

(Translation)
Blow all our trumpets.
They will loudly announce the news of blood and death.

Act 5, Scene 7

Macbeth's army has fallen but he kept on fighting.

MACBETH
What’s he
That was not born of woman? Such a one
Am I to fear, or none.

(Translation)
Who? Who is not born from a woman one?
I only afraid of him nia, the rest I don't care.

Then the castle has been surrendered without a fight, and Malcolm entered the castle. Meanwhile on the battlefield, Macduff finally found Macbeth.

MACBETH
Of all men else I have avoided thee.
But get thee back. My soul is too much charged
With blood of thine already.

(Translation)
Walau, of all the people I've already tried to avoid you liao.
Go away lah.
I'm already guilty of killing your whole family liao.

MACDUFF
Despair thy charm,
And let the angel whom thou still hast served
Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb
Untimely ripped.

(Translation)
Forget about your charm lah,
Those evil spirit you serve can tell you lah,
I was not born naturally one, my mother's womb was cut to deliver me earlier.

Though shocked by his words, Macbeth refused to surrender and continued the fight. In the end, he was killed by Macduff. Macduff then brought Macbeth's head to see the victorious Malcolm and pronounced him king of Scotland.