Macbeth Act2 Quotes Flashcards
Act 2 Scene1:
Banquo-> Fleance
Banquo couldn’t _____?
“And yet I would not sleep”
Act 2 Scene1:
Banquo-> Macbeth
Banquo’s dream
“I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters:
To you that have show’ some truth,”
Act2 Scene1:
Macbeth-> Banquo
Lies about witches
“I think not of them,”
Act2 Scene1:
Macbeth soliloquy
“Is this a dagger which I see before me
The handle toward my hand?”
Act2Scene1:
Macbeth’s silioquy
“Or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?”
Act2Scene2:
Lady Macbeth silioquy
Shows human nature
“Had he not resembled
My father as he slept I had done’t”
Act2Scene2
Macbeth-> Lady Macbeth
Panicking about being possessed
“Amen stuck in my throat”
Act2Scene2
Lady Macbeth-> Macbeth
Tells him to stop panicking
“It will make us mad,”
Act2Scene2
Macbeth-> Lady Macbeth
“Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more!
Macbeth doth murder sleep’,”
Act2Scene2:
Lady Macbeth calls Macbeth useless
'’Infirm of purpose!”
Act2Scene2:
Macbeth says he doesn’t expect to ever stop feeling guilty
“Will all of Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand?”
Act2Scene2:
Lady macbeth takes Macbeth’s guilt metaphor literally
“A little water clears us of this deed,”
Act2Scene2:
Macbeth plays dumb about Duncan sleeping
“Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldn’t!”
Act2Scene2:
Lennox tells Macbeth about how the natural world has been disrupted
“The night has been unruly: where we lay
Our chimneys were blown down,”
Act2Scene2:
Macbeth laments Duncan’s death in front of everybody
“Had I but died an hour before this chance I had liv’e a blessed time,”
Act2Scene2:
Macbeth confesses to murdering chamberlains
“O! Yet I do repent me of my fury
That I did kill them,”
Act2Scene2:
Donalbain tells Malcolm that they can’t feel safe in Scotland anymore
“There’s daggers in men’s smiles,”
Act2Scene2:
Old man tells Ross that the natural world was in chaos
“A falcon, towering in her pride of place
Was by a mousing owl hawk’d at and kill’d,”
Act2Scene2:
Ross agrees with old man telling him his experience in the natural world’s turmoil
“And Duncan’s horses
Turn’d wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out”
Act2Scene2:
Ross curses ambition to Macduff
“Thrift less ambition, that wilt ravin up
Thine own life’s means!”
Act2Scene2:
Macbeth hopes Ross good luck for the future
“Lest our old robes sit easier than our new!”
