Key Quotes for ACT 2

Question 1

‘friend’

‘I ___ not of them’

Answer 1

‘think’

Macbeth addresses Banquo as ‘friend’

Macbeth then lies to Banquo by saying he doesn’t think of the witches therefore he is not a true friend

Question 2

‘A ___ of the mind, a false creation’

Answer 2

‘dagger’

foreshadowing

‘false creation’ shows Macbeth’s intrusive thought and desperation

Question 3

‘Nature seems ___’

Answer 3

‘dead’

refers to the silence of the night

Macbeth might be referring to human nature

Question 4

‘curtaind’ ___’

Answer 4

‘sleep’

double meaning for literal bed curtains and the idea of the night being veiled “hidden from consciousness”

Question 5

‘These ___ must not be thought’

Answer 5

‘deeds’

ironic as later in the play Lady Macbeth is the one that thinks of Duncan’s death and loses sleep from it

Question 6

‘strange ___ of death’

Answer 6

‘screams’

pathetic fallacy

consequences of Macbeth messing up the natural order

Lennox talks about the weather in a way that may foreshadowed an unknown terror

Question 7

‘There’s daggers in men’s ___’

Answer 7

‘smiles’

Donalbain is saying that the men who smile at him and Malcolm are concealing their daggers, wanting their blood

Question 8

‘the nearer in blood, the nearer ___’

Answer 8

‘bloody’

the closer together Malcolm and Donalbain are the likelier they are to be murdered or accused of killing Duncan