Quotes: Act 2 Scene 3

Question 1

Macduff saying Duncan’s death went against God

Answer 1

Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope the lord’s anointed temple, and stole thence the life o’ the building!
Macduff

Question 2

What Macduff has to say is too horrible for a woman

Answer 2

O gentle lady,
tis not for you to hear what i can speak:
the repetition, in a woman’s ear,
would murder as it fell

Question 3

Macbeth saying that life was good before Duncan’s murder

Answer 3

Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time;
Macbeth

Question 4

Macbeth speaking of the unplanned murders of the chamberlains

Answer 4

O, yet I do repent me of my fury, that I did kill them

Question 5

Macbeth believed Duncan had golden blood

Answer 5

His silver skin laced with his golden blood

Question 6

Malcolm: False men can easily show sorrow

Answer 6

To show an unfelt sorrow is an office which the false man does easy

Question 7

Donalbain: quote contrasting Duncan “there is no art to find the mind’s construction in the face”

Answer 7

There’s daggers in men’s smiles; the near in blood, the nearer bloody