Macbeth Quotations Act 2 Flashcards
Act2 Scene1: Banquo: he is thinking about the witches. The proffesy is swigging on his shoulders and he is tired and can’t sleep.
“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!”
Act2 Scene1: Banquo: he caries a weapon in his friends castle he should feel safe
“sword”
Act2 Scene1: Banquo: description of how generous Duncan is in his gifts
“Sent forth great largess to your offices.
This diamond he greets your wife withal”
Act2 Scene1: Banquo: a description of lady Macbeth from Duncan (dramatic irony) she will kill Duncan
“most kind hostess”
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
“I dreamt last night of the three Weird Sisters:
To you they have showed some truth.”
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
“I think not of them”
Act2 Scene1: Banquo: he wants a clear mind
“allegiance clear,”
Act2 Scene1: Macbeth: is put into a manipulative trance by the witches as they place a dagger in front of him
“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.
Act2 Scene1: Macbeth: saying to himself that this must be all in her head caused by (stress/fear/madness)
“or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?”
Act2 Scene1: Macbeth: now he sees blood on the dagger that wasn’t there before
“gouts of blood,
Which was not so before. “
Act2 Scene1: Macbeth: that a murder must take place after seeing the blood on the dagger
“bloody business”
Act2 Scene1: Macbeth: he doesn’t want the world to know what he plans to do
“Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps”
Act2 Scene1: Macbeth: if he keeps talking like this he will talk himself out of killing Duncan
“Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.”
Act2 Scene1: Macbeth: a bell rings to signal Duncan’s death (a rhyming couplet)
“Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven, or to hell.”
Act2 Scene2: lady Macbeth: after drinking the alcohol she gave to the watch gards she is feeling brave
“That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold.”
Act2 Scene2: lady Macbeth: she would have killed Duncan herself if he didn’t look like her dad
“Had he not resembled
My father as he slept, I had done’t”
Act2 Scene2: Macbeth: he is regretting killing Duncan as he has blood on his hands now
“This is a sorry sight.”
Act2 Scene2: lady Macbeth: L Mac wants Mac to stay focused on the bigger pic and not regret what he has done.
“A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.”
Act2 Scene2: lady Macbeth: tells Mac he needs to stop overthinking
“Consider it not so deeply.”
Act2 Scene2: lady Macbeth: (foreshadowing) that lady Macbeth will lose her mind
“These deeds must not be thought
After these ways; so, it will make us mad.”
Act2 Scene2: Macbeth: imagery of a lack of sleep this indicates a guilty conscience
“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,”
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
“I am afraid to think what I have done;
Look on’t again I dare not.”
Act2 Scene: lady Macbeth: she thinks he is useless and takes control of the situation and finishes the job
“Infirm of purpose!”
Act2 Scene2: Macbeth: he is full of guilt and will never wash the guilt from his hands
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand?”
Act2 Scene2: lady Macbeth: she thinks a little water can wash the blood from her hands
“At the south entry: retire we to our chamber;
A little water clears us of this deed:”
Act2 Scene2: Macbeth: he is feeling very regretful after killing Duncan and he wishes the knocking would wake him
“Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!”
Act2 Scene3: Lennox: (pathetic fallacy) when nature is mirroring human events
“The night has been unruly:”
Act2 Scene3: Macduff: has discovered the murder of Duncan
“O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart
Cannot conceive nor name thee!”
Act2 Scene3: Macduff: this is ungodly as the king was seen as gods representation on earth
“Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope”
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.
“O gentle lady,
Tis not for you to hear what I can speak:”
Act2 Scene3: Macbeth if he died before Duncan than he would have lived a happy life
“Had I but died an hour before this chance,
I had lived a blessed time; for, from this instant,”
Act2 Scene3: Macbeth: wishes to kill the watch gardens on the spot (ironic since mac was the one that killed Duncan
“O, yet I do repent me of my fury,
That I did kill them.”
Act2 Scene3: Macduff: questions mac for killing the watch gards
“Wherefore did you so?”
Act2 Scene3 Macbeth: description of how Duncan was killed
“His silver skin laced with his golden blood;”
Act2 Scene3: Malcolm: some one here is responsible for thee Gaithersburg death and they don’t believe these people.
“To show an unfelt sorrow is an office”
Act2 Scene3: Donalbain: is also not trusting anyone and feels unsafe.
“Where we are,
There’s daggers in men’s smiles: the near in blood,”
Act2 Scene4: Ross: heaven is upset by the actions of men. This is cos god’s representation on earth the king was killed.
“the heavens, as troubled with man’s act,
Threaten his bloody stage:”
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
“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. “
Act2 Scene4: Ross: Ross respects Macduff and talks of his good character
“Here comes good Macduff.”
Act2 Scene4: by running away it makes Malcolm and Donalbain look guilty of the father’s death.
“Malcolm and Donalbain, the King’s two sons,
Are stolen away and fled; which puts upon them
Suspicion of the deed.”
