Act 2

Question 1

We see that Banquo is worried about what the witches have said. He calls on god to stop thoughts of killing Duncan so his sons will become king.

Answer 1

A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, and yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers, restrain me the cursed thoughts that nature gives way to in response.

Question 2

Dramatic Irony about lady macbeth wanting to kill Duncan

Answer 2

Most Kind Hostess

Question 3

Banquo admits to Macbeth that he cant stop thinking about the witches. Macbeth then shuts down the conversation.

Answer 3

“I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters: To you they have showed some truth.”
“I think not of them”

Question 4

Banquo wants a clear conscience

Answer 4

Allegiance cleared

Question 5

In a soliloquy Macbeth sees a dagger that he can not grab, a metaphor for not being able to kill Duncan with a clear conscience. Soliloquy

Answer 5

Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still,

Question 6

Saying that the dagger was false in his sick brain - Soliloquy

Answer 6

A dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat oppressed brain.

Question 7

If Macbeth keeps talking to himself he will lose the courage to kill Duncan - soliloquy

Answer 7

Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.

Question 8

A rhyming couplet. Funeral bells signal Duncans death

Answer 8

Hear it not Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven, or to hell

Question 9

Lady Macbeth says that the drink that made the guards sleep made her brave

Answer 9

That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold

Question 10

Lady macbeth says that she would have killed Duncan herself if he didnt look like her father.

Answer 10

Had he not resembled my father as slept, I had done’t.

Question 11

Macbeth expresses his regret in killing Duncan and Lady Macbeth tells him to man up.

Answer 11

“This is a sorry sight”
“A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.”

Question 12

Lady Macbeth tell Macbeth to stop thinking about what he has done.

Answer 12

Consider it not so deeply.

Question 13

Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth that they’ll go crazy if they keep talking about the murder

Answer 13

These deeds must not be thought after these ways; so, it will make us mad.

Question 14

Macbeth expresses that he wont be able to sleep anymore because he has committed such a bad crime.

Answer 14

Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep.

Question 15

Macbeth wont put the daggers in the guards hands because he doesn’t want to look at what he has done. Lady Macbeth does it herself.

Answer 15

“I am afraid to think what I have done; look on’t again I dare not.”
“Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers”

Question 16

During a soliloquy Macbeth says how all of the water couldn’t was of the blood from his hands.

Answer 16

Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?

Question 17

In contrast to what Macbeth says Lady Macbeth says a small bit of water will was off the blood.

Answer 17

A little water clears us of this deed:

Question 18

Macbeth wishes he could wake Duncan and wishes he was alive.

Answer 18

Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!

Question 19

Lennox says to Macbeth how the night Duncan was killed there was natural disasters - earthquake

Answer 19

The night has been unruly.

Question 20

Macduff is so upset by Duncan’s death he cant even say it.

Answer 20

O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee!

Question 21

links the king to god

Answer 21

Most sacrilegious murder

Question 22

Macduff changes his tone when Lady Macbeth comes in as it would be too much of a shock for a women

Answer 22

O gentle lady, tis not for you to hear what i can speak.

Question 23

Macbeth says to the group he wishes he had died before discovering Duncan was dead so he could have lived and died happily.

Answer 23

Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time, for, from this instant, there’s nothing serious in mortality.

Question 24

Macbeth says he was so angry with Duncan’s murder that he killed the guards. This makes others suspicious of Macbeth and Macduff asks him why?

Answer 24

“O, yet i do repent me of my fury, that i did kill them”
“Wherefore did you so?”

Question 25

Macbeth gives poetic imagery of Duncan that perceives him to be innocent and godlike

Answer 25

His silver skin laced with his golden blood

Question 26

Lady Macbeth pretends to faint to distract form Macbeth’s rambling

Answer 26

Help me hence, ho!

Question 27

Malcolm ( Duncan’s son ) knows the murderer is someone in the castle.

Answer 27

To show an unfelt sorrow is an office which the false man does easy. Ill to England.

Question 29

Ross describes how heaven is upset by the actions of people.

Answer 29

The heavens as troubled with mans act, threaten his bloody stage

Question 30

The old man says how the killing of a king is unnatural

Answer 30

‘Tis unnatural, even like the deed that’s done.

Question 31

Ross shows that he respects Macduff

Answer 31

Here comes the good Macduff

Question 32

Macduff shows that people suspect Malcolm and Donalbain killed Duncan and that’s why they fled the country.

Answer 32

Malcolm and Donalbain, the King’s two sons, are stolen away and fled; which puts upon them suspicion of the deed.