Act 2 Scene 2

Question 1

LM says ‘had he not resembled my father… I had done’t’

Answer 1

-she isn’t completely cold blooded, foreshadowing her future feelings of guilt

Question 2

Macbeth says ‘I could not say amen’

Answer 2

-his attempt to pray has been rejected, meaning god will not bless him and he is cursed… LINKS TO ‘sleep no more’, a basic necessity has been stripped away from him

Question 3

Macbeth says ‘will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood?’

Answer 3

-Shakespeare uses blood to symbolise guilt and water to symbolise purity, the metaphor of Neptune’s ocean suggests that no amount of ‘water’ will ever remove the sacrilegious ‘stain’ of regicide

Question 4

Macbeth hears a ‘knocking’

Answer 4

• parallels the ‘knocking’ of Macbeth’s heart in scene 1.3

- Macbeth wishes the knocking would wake Duncan; Macbeth is showing remorse

Question 5

LM says ‘a little water clears us of this deed’

Answer 5

-naive, thinking water can wash away he guilt