Macbeth Quotations Act 2

Question 1

Act2 Scene1: Banquo: he is thinking about the witches. The proffesy is swigging on his shoulders and he is tired and can’t sleep.

Answer 1

“A heavy summons lies like lead upon me,
And yet I wound not sleep. Merciful powers,
Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature
Gives way to in repose!”

Question 2

Act2 Scene1: Banquo: he caries a weapon in his friends castle he should feel safe

Answer 2

“sword”

Question 3

Act2 Scene1: Banquo: description of how generous Duncan is in his gifts

Answer 3

“Sent forth great largess to your offices.
This diamond he greets your wife withal”

Question 4

Act2 Scene1: Banquo: a description of lady Macbeth from Duncan (dramatic irony) she will kill Duncan

Answer 4

“most kind hostess”

Question 5

Act2 Scene1: Banquo: Banquo can’t stop thinking about the witches and their words he said that they told the truth to Mac about becoming thane of Cawdor

Answer 5

“I dreamt last night of the three Weird Sisters:
To you they have showed some truth.”

Question 6

Act2 Scene1: Macbeth: he lies to Banquo saying he doesn’t think about the witches but he sent a letter to lady Mac straight away

Answer 6

“I think not of them”

Question 7

Act2 Scene1: Banquo: he wants a clear mind

Answer 7

“allegiance clear,”

Question 8

Act2 Scene1: Macbeth: is put into a manipulative trance by the witches as they place a dagger in front of him

Answer 8

“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.

Question 9

Act2 Scene1: Macbeth: saying to himself that this must be all in her head caused by (stress/fear/madness)

Answer 9

“or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?”

Question 10

Act2 Scene1: Macbeth: now he sees blood on the dagger that wasn’t there before

Answer 10

“gouts of blood,
Which was not so before. “

Question 11

Act2 Scene1: Macbeth: that a murder must take place after seeing the blood on the dagger

Answer 11

“bloody business”

Question 12

Act2 Scene1: Macbeth: he doesn’t want the world to know what he plans to do

Answer 12

“Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps”

Question 13

Act2 Scene1: Macbeth: if he keeps talking like this he will talk himself out of killing Duncan

Answer 13

“Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.”

Question 14

Act2 Scene1: Macbeth: a bell rings to signal Duncan’s death (a rhyming couplet)

Answer 14

“Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven, or to hell.”

Question 15

Act2 Scene2: lady Macbeth: after drinking the alcohol she gave to the watch gards she is feeling brave

Answer 15

“That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold.”

Question 16

Act2 Scene2: lady Macbeth: she would have killed Duncan herself if he didn’t look like her dad

Answer 16

“Had he not resembled
My father as he slept, I had done’t”

Question 17

Act2 Scene2: Macbeth: he is regretting killing Duncan as he has blood on his hands now

Answer 17

“This is a sorry sight.”

Question 18

Act2 Scene2: lady Macbeth: L Mac wants Mac to stay focused on the bigger pic and not regret what he has done.

Answer 18

“A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.”

Question 19

Act2 Scene2: lady Macbeth: tells Mac he needs to stop overthinking

Answer 19

“Consider it not so deeply.”

Question 20

Act2 Scene2: lady Macbeth: (foreshadowing) that lady Macbeth will lose her mind

Answer 20

“These deeds must not be thought
After these ways; so, it will make us mad.”

Question 21

Act2 Scene2: Macbeth: imagery of a lack of sleep this indicates a guilty conscience

Answer 21

“Methought I heard a voice cry ‘sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep’- the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care,”

Question 22

Act2 Scene2: Macbeth: he won’t go back to the murder to plant the daggers he is full of regret from what he has done

Answer 22

“I am afraid to think what I have done;
Look on’t again I dare not.”

Question 23

Act2 Scene: lady Macbeth: she thinks he is useless and takes control of the situation and finishes the job

Answer 23

“Infirm of purpose!”

Question 24

Act2 Scene2: Macbeth: he is full of guilt and will never wash the guilt from his hands

Answer 24

“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand?”

Question 25

Act2 Scene2: lady Macbeth: she thinks a little water can wash the blood from her hands

Answer 25

“At the south entry: retire we to our chamber;
A little water clears us of this deed:”

Question 26

Act2 Scene2: Macbeth: he is feeling very regretful after killing Duncan and he wishes the knocking would wake him

Answer 26

“Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!”

Question 27

Act2 Scene3: Lennox: (pathetic fallacy) when nature is mirroring human events

Answer 27

“The night has been unruly:”

Question 28

Act2 Scene3: Macduff: has discovered the murder of Duncan

Answer 28

“O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart
Cannot conceive nor name thee!”

Question 29

Act2 Scene3: Macduff: this is ungodly as the king was seen as gods representation on earth

Answer 29

“Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope”

Question 30

Act2 Scene3: Macduff: he won’t tell lady Macbeth know what he saw as it isn’t ladylike (dramatic irony) as she helped kill him.

Answer 30

“O gentle lady,
Tis not for you to hear what I can speak:”

Question 31

Act2 Scene3: Macbeth if he died before Duncan than he would have lived a happy life

Answer 31

“Had I but died an hour before this chance,
I had lived a blessed time; for, from this instant,”

Question 32

Act2 Scene3: Macbeth: wishes to kill the watch gardens on the spot (ironic since mac was the one that killed Duncan

Answer 32

“O, yet I do repent me of my fury,
That I did kill them.”

Question 33

Act2 Scene3: Macduff: questions mac for killing the watch gards

Answer 33

“Wherefore did you so?”

Question 34

Act2 Scene3 Macbeth: description of how Duncan was killed

Answer 34

“His silver skin laced with his golden blood;”

Question 35

Act2 Scene3: Malcolm: some one here is responsible for thee Gaithersburg death and they don’t believe these people.

Answer 35

“To show an unfelt sorrow is an office”

Question 36

Act2 Scene3: Donalbain: is also not trusting anyone and feels unsafe.

Answer 36

“Where we are,
There’s daggers in men’s smiles: the near in blood,”

Question 37

Act2 Scene4: Ross: heaven is upset by the actions of men. This is cos god’s representation on earth the king was killed.

Answer 37

“the heavens, as troubled with man’s act,
Threaten his bloody stage:”

Question 38

Act2 Scene4: old man: a falcon was killed by an owl. What’s happening in nature isn’t right = what’s happened to Duncan isn’t right

Answer 38

“Tis unnatural,
Even like the deed that’s done. On Tuesday last,
A falcon, towering in her pried of place,
Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. “

Question 39

Act2 Scene4: Ross: Ross respects Macduff and talks of his good character

Answer 39

“Here comes good Macduff.”

Question 40

Act2 Scene4: by running away it makes Malcolm and Donalbain look guilty of the father’s death.

Answer 40

“Malcolm and Donalbain, the King’s two sons,
Are stolen away and fled; which puts upon them
Suspicion of the deed.”