Act 2 Flashcards
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.
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.
Dramatic Irony about lady macbeth wanting to kill Duncan
Most Kind Hostess
Banquo admits to Macbeth that he cant stop thinking about the witches. Macbeth then shuts down the conversation.
“I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters: To you they have showed some truth.”
“I think not of them”
Banquo wants a clear conscience
Allegiance cleared
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
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,
Saying that the dagger was false in his sick brain - Soliloquy
A dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat oppressed brain.
If Macbeth keeps talking to himself he will lose the courage to kill Duncan - soliloquy
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.
A rhyming couplet. Funeral bells signal Duncans death
Hear it not Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven, or to hell
Lady Macbeth says that the drink that made the guards sleep made her brave
That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold
Lady macbeth says that she would have killed Duncan herself if he didnt look like her father.
Had he not resembled my father as slept, I had done’t.
Macbeth expresses his regret in killing Duncan and Lady Macbeth tells him to man up.
“This is a sorry sight”
“A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.”
Lady Macbeth tell Macbeth to stop thinking about what he has done.
Consider it not so deeply.
Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth that they’ll go crazy if they keep talking about the murder
These deeds must not be thought after these ways; so, it will make us mad.
Macbeth expresses that he wont be able to sleep anymore because he has committed such a bad crime.
Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep.
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.
“I am afraid to think what I have done; look on’t again I dare not.”
“Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers”
During a soliloquy Macbeth says how all of the water couldn’t was of the blood from his hands.
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?
In contrast to what Macbeth says Lady Macbeth says a small bit of water will was off the blood.
A little water clears us of this deed:
Macbeth wishes he could wake Duncan and wishes he was alive.
Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!
Lennox says to Macbeth how the night Duncan was killed there was natural disasters - earthquake
The night has been unruly.
Macduff is so upset by Duncan’s death he cant even say it.
O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee!
links the king to god
Most sacrilegious murder
Macduff changes his tone when Lady Macbeth comes in as it would be too much of a shock for a women
O gentle lady, tis not for you to hear what i can speak.
Macbeth says to the group he wishes he had died before discovering Duncan was dead so he could have lived and died happily.
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.
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?
“O, yet i do repent me of my fury, that i did kill them”
“Wherefore did you so?”
Macbeth gives poetic imagery of Duncan that perceives him to be innocent and godlike
His silver skin laced with his golden blood
Lady Macbeth pretends to faint to distract form Macbeth’s rambling
Help me hence, ho!
Malcolm ( Duncan’s son ) knows the murderer is someone in the castle.
To show an unfelt sorrow is an office which the false man does easy. Ill to England.
Ross describes how heaven is upset by the actions of people.
The heavens as troubled with mans act, threaten his bloody stage
The old man says how the killing of a king is unnatural
‘Tis unnatural, even like the deed that’s done.
Ross shows that he respects Macduff
Here comes the good Macduff
Macduff shows that people suspect Malcolm and Donalbain killed Duncan and that’s why they fled the country.
Malcolm and Donalbain, the King’s two sons, are stolen away and fled; which puts upon them suspicion of the deed.
