Act 2 Scene 2 MACBETH Flashcards
Summary (1)
-Lady Macbeeth’s nerves are on edge as she waits for Macbeth to return from committign the mruder . Her mood is bold , and she boasts about how she has drugged the guardw .
-Macbeth enters , carrying two blodstained daggers . He is obsessed by the noise of laughter and crying that he has heard .
-Macbeth’s guilt torments him ,. Lady Macbeth attempts to lessen and rationalise his fears .
Summary (2)
-She then crtiicises Macbeth for failing to leave the dagger son the guards . She has to go back herslef and lant the weapons on them - Macbeth is too frightened .
-A knocking at the gate means they must quicly go to bed and pretned to be suprised when Duncan’s body is discovered .
Why is this scene important (1)
-Up until this point , Macbegth had options - now ther eis no going back .
-SHakespeare demonstrates the scale of the terrrifying guilt that cuases a great warrior like Macbeth to be reduced to abject fear .
Why is this scene important (2) ?
-Lady Macbeth’s character , by contrast , is shown by SHakespere as steely and determined ,- where Macbeth flounders , Lady Macbeth persevere s.
Key character LADY MACBETH
-Despite some anxiety early on , Lady Macbeth is entirely in cotnrol of herslef and her husband . She planned the execution , and now it is her readiness of mind and strnegth of purpose that compensate for Macbeth’s failure to act decisively once the murder is committed .
Key character LADY MACBETH (2)
-Shakespreare shows Lady Macbeth foucsed on the need to keep to the plan of ction - ordering Macbeth to go bac and palce the daggers beside the guards so as to incriminae them .
-Macbeth however , is too terrified to return . He is much mroe concerned with the spiritual and moral implications of what he has done ; the deem damnation , inf act , that he has brought upon himdlf .
Key quotation ; OCEANS OF GUILT
-In Macbeth’s ‘Will all great neptune’s ocean’ speech , SHakespeare expands he langguage into the grandiosie of ‘multitudionous seas incarnadine ‘ , and then just as suddenly deflates it into the ismply ‘ green one , red ‘.
-Shakespeare uses sophisticated vocabulary to show thay Macbeth is clouding his actions .
-The return to simple vocabulary brings Macbeth (and audience ) , more immediately to the truth - he has killed the innocent KIng Duncan .
Lady Macbeth is unsettled
‘Harp peace ‘ when seeing owl , on edge unerved .
-Lady Macbeth finaly showing some human emotion or possibly excusing herself on why she did not kill DUncan because it looked lik e’my father as he sept’
-As soon as Macbeth comes she hides her worries .
Agitated Macbeth
Macbeth hs little hope ‘ h could not sa amen ‘ litte hope for Macbeth .
‘Sleep no more Macbeth does mruder slepa ‘ Macbeth is worries , highlighting his guilt , no sleep , no peace , turulence this will HAUNT HIM in the future .
-Lady Macbeth telling him to FORGET these worries and h will be okay , she is putting on strength to COMPOSE MB .
-All M remeers is the witches rhyes ‘glamis hath murder sleep’ highliting his dependance .
How does Lady Macbeht compsoe Macbeth
-tis the yee of childhood that fers the pianted devil ‘ - she is emasculnating him to compose him .
‘will all great Neptune’s oceand wash this blood clen from my hand ‘ METAPHOR - blood has becoe a symobol of guilt , even a GOD cannot washe away his deeds .
'’my hands are of our colour , but I shame ot wer a hear so white ‘LADY MACBETH INVERTING MORALITY - being violent is a good tign .
Macbeth’s regret
wake duncan , i would thou couldst , macbeth regrets killign Ducna iwshing ot ring him back alive , shwos that he is brianashed luttle ibt sympathy
MR BRUFF
-It is clear that the witches have pushed Mb;s amition .
-he sees errors of his ways and falls from his posiiotn .
-He goes against all decency and morals by kilijng his king
-also kills many more people
indiscriminately in order to keep his
ill-gotten gains and in this light
murder of Ducnan oddtage
IS VERY SIGNIFICAANT , as the audicene would not fel a threa dof sympathy toward Macbeth ,as it is something so traiotirus cannot be seen .
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-mACBETH BUTH THE DAGGER SIWTH IHSM , HE IS FEELING GUILT AS WELLA S REMORE AND SADNESS OFH WHA THE HAS DONE .
also kills many more people
indiscriminately in order to keep his
ill-gotten gains and awy from light
Fell l ittle smpathy for LM as she couldnt kill him cuz he looke dlike her dad, confidence in btoh LM and Mb is abscene which is a majori character arx .
-Lmb trouble hark pecace
while mB is like ina trance
he appears not to
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care whether he is caught or not and
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indulges in self-reproach while lady
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macbeth desperately tries to bring him
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round
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one of the most famous ironies of the
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play is introduced here lady macbeth
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urges her husband to wash the blood from
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his hands telling him a little water
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clears up us of this deed
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this is an extended metaphor we see in
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the rest of the play in many ways where
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the images of blood and water are used
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to show the murderous deeds which are
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impossible to wash away
lady macbeth herself returns to this
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image when she is close to insane
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there is a real contrast between both
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characters in this scene while both are
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on edge and appear painfully human it’s
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laid him at best practical side which is
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called into operation
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mcbeth’s remorse at the killing has left
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him in a state where he could easily be
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detected he’s brought the daggers with
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him from the room a metaphor perhaps of
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his guilt which requires lady macbeth to
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return them thus exposing her to the
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crime and a vision that later in the
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play haunts her dreams
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the knocking at the gate is symbolic in
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a number of ways the audience as well as
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the characters have been in this grim
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ghoulish dark environment for a number
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of scenes we’ve been exposed to best
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fevered ramblings and laid him at best
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cold calculations
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the knocking symbolizes the reality
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outside of the castle gates there’s a
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world out there not immediately poisoned
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by these deeds
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it’s also a symbol extended in the
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following scene of the knocking at the
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gates of hell
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in act one when lady macbeth dedicates
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herself to evil and an effect is
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possessed by demons her castle becomes a
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type of hell
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she leads duncan by the hound into his
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hell and never he never emerges
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the stars over the castle don’t shine
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and as we’ll see in later scenes the
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murder of duncan disrupts the balance in
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nature
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the knocking wakes macbeth and lady
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macbeth from the dark and murderous
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revelry in which they’ve held the
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audience and it suddenly makes the deed
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they’ve committed shocking raw and real
