| Banquo has “cursed thoughts”- what are these thoughts about? | -3 witches-MB is going to be a king-Potential Death |
| What plan do Banquo and Macbeth make? | If Banquo stays with MB, there will be a reward for Banquo |
| How does Banquo’s ambition differ from Macbeth’s? (So I lose none…I shall be counseled) | He cares about having a clear conscience |
| How does the ringing of the bell work into MacBeth and Lady Macbeth’s plan? | The bell encourages MB to kill King D |
| Items personified in Macbeth’s soliloquy | -Eye-Dream-Murder |
| Macbeth: Imagination or hallucination? Forced by the “bloody business” or encouraged by it? | Imagination and Mb is encouraged by it. He isn’t physically drawn towards murder but wants glory and wealth so he’s mentally drawn towards murder |
| What has Lady macbeth done when we first see her? | got that guards drunk |
| “Had he not resembled/ My father as he slept, I had done’t” LMB- why doesn’t she kill Duncan? What does this reveal in her? | Because she resembles her fatherShe has feeling and kindness. Emotion |
| “This is a sorry sight.” MB/ “A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.” LMB – How do their reactions to murdering Duncan differ? | Macbeth has a bad feeling about it and LMB doesn’t care she says it is not a big deal |
| MB cannot “Amen” – why? | Because he just killed someone |
| What mistake does MB make in staging the murder? | He brought the dagger home |
| How does Lady MB fix the staging in murder? | Paints the servants faces with the blood of him |
| Blood on his hands- how to get it off? What symbols are established? | -no water can wash it off-he would turn a clean sea red |
| “My hands are of your color, but I shame/ to wear so white” LMB – what does this mean? | That she is just as much in this a he is and just to go wash your hands off, its not a big deal |
| “Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou/ couldst!” MB – What is he saying? | That he wishes he could wake up Duncan and take this back |
| Porter pretends to be opening up gates of hell for 3 characters | FarmerEquivocator Tailor |
| What is the purpose of this scene? | comic relief |
| Lennox describes the previous night- what was it like? | stormy windy rainy |
| “And yes dark night strangle the traveling lamp:/ Is ‘t night’s predominance, or the day’s shame, / That darkness does the face of earth entomb, / When living light should kiss it?” What is happening? What is the significance? | ironic because she plotted the murder and knows about it |
| What are Malcolm and Donalbain planning? Why? | -running away to avoid death-if they don’t leave they will be blamed-they are fleeing to England and Ireland |
| “And yes dark night strangle the traveling lamp:/ Is ‘t night’s predominance, or the day’s shame,/ That darkness does the face of earth entomb, / When living light should kiss it?’ What is happening? What is the significance? | sun never came updisturbances and nature |
| 3 unnatural events | -owl ate a falcon-horse broke loose and ate each other-sun never came up |
| Malcolm and Donalbain flee- what does this make everyone suspect? | Blamed for father’s death |
| Wht has the result been for Macbeth? | GOING TO BECOME KING |
| “God’s benison go with you, and with those/ That would make good of bad, and friends of foes!” What does this remind us of? | Romeo and Juliet. Montagues and Capulets agree to become friends |
Macbeth Act II
September 16, 2019