![]() ![]() Time: The morning after Duncan was killedĮvents: A Porter goes to answer the knocking at the gate, grumbling a lot about random stuff because he’s drunk (comic relief). Scene 3Ĭharacters: A Porter, Macduff, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Lenox, Banquo, Donalbain, Malcolm. I’m just as guilty as you but I would be ashamed to be so cowardly. “My hands are of your colour but I shame to wear a heart so white” – Lady Macbeth. ![]() Only a child would be afraid of scary pictures. The sleeping and the dead can’t hurt you any more than an image can. ‘Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil.” Lady Macbeth 53. ![]() Quotes: “The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures. Then they hear knocking on the door so pretend that they have been in their bedroom the whole time. He then talks about how he heard a voice saying “Macbeth murdered sleep (aka Duncan) and therefore Macbeth will sleep no more!” Lady Macbeth tells him to return the bloody daggers to the guards and Macbeth says he can’t do it, so she tells him to stop being a coward/sissy and she does it herself. He says that at one point the guards cried “God bless us” and “Amen” and Macbeth was disturbed because he couldn’t say it back. He returns feeling very dirty and greatly disturbed by his actions. Time: Right after Macbeth murders Duncan.Įvents: Macbeth goes off to murder Duncan, using the daggers which belonged to Duncan’s guards (whom Lady Macbeth drugged up). Location: A courtyard in Macbeth’s castle. This dagger seems to be an image of death and I would argue is what convinces him to kill Duncan. This quote, as well as the sentences after it, are about a dagger that Macbeth is imagining. Quote(s): “Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand…Or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?” – Macbeth. M speaks to the audience about dagger – real or imaginary? Banquo had a dream about the witches so they talk about them for a bit. He, his son and Macbeth are all walking around the castle and B and M bump into each other. Time: Around 1 in the morning (the day after the big drama in Act 1 scenes 6/7)Įvents: Banquo can’t sleep. In the line of p 82 ‘Lest our robes sit easier than our new.’ Suggesting the new titles bestowed upon Macbeth to not befitting.Characters: Banquo, Fleance (his son), Macbeth. He talks about the unrest of nature, similarly to the unrest in the kingdom after Duncan’s sad passing.Ĭlothing. The old man represents nature and the village. Through Macduff’s defiance, loyalty is severely questioned. Macduff refuses to go to scone to watch the crowning of Macbeth due to his suspicions. Macduff and Ross are suspicious and have conferred about if Macbeth is the man he claims to be. He goes home to Fife, choosing not to see the coronation. Macduff discusses Macbeth being made King. Overcompensating for the deed he committed. He says his murder of the servants is out of his ‘love’ of Duncan. They run away as not to be killed.Īppearances hide reality. He and the other thanes gain suspicion after Macbeth kills the servants.ĭuncan’s sons are suspicious too. He comes running in and tells Macbeth and Lady Macbeth of the horrid death. Macduff is one of the many citizens horrified by the death of Duncan. Malcolm and Donalbain, realizing they’re in danger, decide to flee. Macbeth kills the two guards and Macduff seems suspicious of this. Macduff arrives and discovers the King’s death. Doing erratic things (like bringing the weapon back home), and struggling to come to terms with the crime he has committed.īlood is on his hand, despite his wife’s belief ‘little water will clear us of this deed’ But we see there is still some empathy in her when she states ‘Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done‘ t. She plants it so the guards will be blamed for the king’s death. She gets angry that Macbeth would come back with the incriminating evidence. Lady Macbeth is rapidly becoming more organized and calm about the murder. She takes them and plants them on the guards whom she’s already drugged. Lady Macbeth comforts him but then tells him off for bringing the daggers back. Macbeth returns from killing the King, feeling guilty. Visions used to show Macbeth’s guilt for what he is planning to do. Macbeth uses his vision, and the prophecy he heard to justify the cost of murder. Using the prophecy to justify his gruesome thoughts.įate and free will. Believing in the visions of the sword he sees. Convincing Banquo to stay with him despite his own morals. Macbeth goes as far as to test Banquo’s trust in the statement ‘If you shall cleave to my consent, when ‘tis, it shall make honor for you’. Macbeth hallucinates, seeing a dagger in front of him.īanquo and Macbeth grow more fearful and suspicious of each other. ![]()
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