MACBETHMACBETHACT 2ACT 2

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Sara ChesleyKiley Delaney

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Megan Nicholson

CHARACTERSCHARACTERS

Macbeth

• Husband to Lady Macbeth and is easily swayed by her

• He needs to prove himself to her but he himself is also very ambitious

• He is very stressed and guilty about killing Duncan and is hallucinating

• Macbeth kills Duncan’s servants and his story causes Macduff to be suspicious of him

Lady Macbeth

• Wife to Macbeth• Urges Macbeth to kill Duncan and doesn’t

understand Macbeth’s hesitation or guilt• She ends up having to fetch the bloody daggers

from Duncan’s room and place them in the grooms room to frame them, because Macbeth couldn’t bear to look

• At the discovery of Duncan’s murder she faints, or pretends to, to draw attention away from Macbeth showing her cunningness

Banquo• Dreams of the witches, is disturbed and wants to

talk to Macbeth about them• Prophesied that his children will be kings but

takes no action on this prophecy• Fleance is one of his sons• He is tense, for he carries his sword in Macbeth’s

home• He is the first one to say that he will fight against

the hidden design of treasonous malice when Duncan is found dead, showing his loyalty

Fleance• Son of Banquo • Prophesized that he will be king

Donalbain • Younger son of king Duncan and brother to

Malcolm, flees to Ireland to seek refuge after their fathers murder, fearing that he might be next.

Malcolm

• Elder son of king Duncan, he uses deception only to insure his personal safety, and when he feels he and his brother are in danger because of their dads murder, he flees to England, which gives off the impression that he is weak.

Macduff

• First to discover Duncan was murdered and was hysterical

• He is the one who bluntly tells Duncan’s sons (Donalbain and Malcolm) that their father was murdered

• He is also the first to notice Lady Macbeth fainted• Suspicious of Macbeth• He is fairly observant

Ross

• Macduff’s cousin, in his scene he is talking to the Old Man about the kings murder, once the man talks about all the things that happened that night, Ross comes to the conclusion that nature is angry over the kings murder.

Lennox• One of Duncan’s nobles, he does not do much

but he is very much an observer throughout the play.

Porter• Opens the gate for Macduff and Lennox• His rants and jokes lighten the mood in

Scene 3

PLOT PLOT OVERVIEWOVERVIEW

Scene 1

• Banquo and his son Fleance are on their way to bed when they encounter Macbeth.

• Macbeth and Banquo exchange small conversation about the king and of Banquo’s dream of the three weird sisters.

• They agree to discuses the topic of the witches at a later date.

• Banquo and Fleance leave to go to bed.• Macbeth goes to King Duncan’s chamber to kill him in

his sleep.

Scene 2

• Macbeth walks in with his hands bloody to find his wife, Lady Macbeth drunk.

• Since Macbeth has finally done the killing his wife now sees him more of a man.

• Lady Macbeth dismisses Macbeth’s guilt for killing King Duncan.

• They agree to never speak of the murder again.• Lady Macbeth takes the bloody daggers from Macbeth

and leaves to put them in the servants’ rooms.

Scene 3• Macduff and Lennox enter Macbeth’s castle.• Macbeth directs Macduff where the King is resting.• Macduff yells about the murder.• Lennox and Macbeth check on the king, then come

back to Macduff who is now with Lady Macbeth.• Malcolm and Donalbain learn about their fathers

death.• After discussing what matters need to be taken,

Donalbain plans to flee to Ireland and Malcolm plans to flee south to England.

Scene 4• Ross and the Old Man discuss about the bizarre

happenings that occurred over the past few days. • Macduff enters and informs that Macbeth will be

king.• Macduff proposes the idea that the servants may

have been paid to kill the king.• Donalbain and Malcolm look suspicious, since

they have fled.• The scene ends with Macduff leaving for Fife and

Ross leaving for Scone.

IMPORTANT IMPORTANT QUOTESQUOTES

Scene 11. “My bosom franchis’d and allegiance clear, I

shall be counsell’d.” (Act 2, Scene 1, Line 28-29)

• Banquo speaking to Macbeth.• Referring to Banquo’s loyalty to Macbeth and

the king. • Significant because Macbeth knows that he

can count on Banquo when the time comes. • Audiences can take that Banquo is loyal and

may help Macbeth later in the story.

Scene 12. “Is this a dagger which I see before me… A

dagger of the mind, a false creation.” (Act 2, Scene 1, Line 33-38)

• Macbeth talking to himself.• Referring to the hallucination he is having of a

dagger. • Significant because he feels guilt and this is a

theme of the story.• Members of an audience can draw that

Macbeth is worried and not sure about killing the king.

Scene 13. “I go, and it is done; the bell invites me. Hear it not,

Duncan; for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven, or to hell.” (Act 2, Scene 1, Line 63-65)

• Macbeth speaking to himself. • Referring to the king’s recent death.• Significant because Macbeth was worried and felt

guilt before, but he does the deed regardless and mentions that a funeral bell will take the king to heaven or hell.

• Audience members can take that Macbeth has killed Duncan although he felt guilt before.

Scene 21. “I am afraid they have awake’d, and ‘tis not done;

the attempt and not the deed confounds us… Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t.” (Act 2, Scene 2, Line 10-14)

• Lady Macbeth speaking to herself.• Referring to killing the king, and how Lady Macbeth

seems to wish she could have done it herself. • Significant because Lady Macbeth is worried and does

not think very well of her husband, Macbeth. • Audiences can draw that Lady Macbeth does not trust

her husband with the deed, and wanted to kill the king herself.

Scene 22. “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood

clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” (Act 2, Scene 2, Line 60-63)

• Macbeth talking to himself. • Referring to Macbeth’s bloody hands from killing the

king. • Significant because blood is a common image in the

story, and Macbeth is still shocked at what he has done.

• Members of an audience understand how strongly this is affecting Macbeth.

Scene 23. “To know my deed ‘twere best not know

myself.” (Act 2, Scene 2, Line 73)• Macbeth to Lady Macbeth.• Referring to the damnable deed of him killing of

the king.• Significant because once again, Macbeth feels

guilt and does not wish to think about what he has done.

• Audiences can draw that Macbeth does not recognize himself after becoming a murderer.

Scene 31. “The night has been unruly. Where we lay, our chimneys were blown

down and, as they say, lamentings heard i' th' air, strange screams of death, and prophesying with accents terrible of dire combustion and confused events new hatched to the woeful time. The obscure bird clamored the livelong night. Some say the Earth was feverous and did shake.” (Act 2, Scene 3, Line 54-56)

• This quote was spoken by Lennox to McBeth. At the time, the audience would be unsure of what is happening, and wouldn’t necessarily know that the king has died, therefore they wouldn’t be able to take much from the quote until they have confirmation of the kings death. This quote is crucial to the play, it’s the first we hear of the kings death. The speaker is referring to the terrible things that had happened last night, which was the murder of their king.

2. “Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time; for, from this instant, there’s nothing serious in mortality, all is but toys. Renown and grace is dead, the wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.” (Act 2, Scene 3, Line 92-97)

• This quote was spoken by Macbeth. I think it really shows his character. He was truly loyal to the king, and wanted nothing bad to happen to him. He says he wished he could have died before the king so that he could have lived a blessed life. Through the whole quote, MacBeth was referring to the king’s death, and how upset he was about it. This quote is significant to the play, because it shows who Macbeth was loyal to, and what he stood for. Overall his character seems untrustworthy and unloyal, but clearly he was loyal to the king. Other than proving how much Macbeth though of the king, this quote doesn’t tell that much to the audience. They don’t find out about any secrets, or other exciting events in the play.

Scene 3

3. “Oh, yet I do repent me of my fury, that I did kill them.” (Act 2, Scene 3, Line 107-108)

• The person who spoke this quote was MacBeth to Donablin, Malcom, Lennox, and Macduff. The audience had just found out that it was supposedly the guards who had murdered the king. MacBeth is telling the men that he has killed the guards who murdered the king. After this quote, the audience went from originally thinking that MacBeth was a pretty good character, who was loyal and trustworthy, but after he just murdered the guards, they will realize how cruel MacBeth can be. This quote also makes MacBeth seem rather impulsive. After finding the guards with bloody swords, he was so angry that he killed the gaurds, and not long after, regretted what he had done. This quote really tells the audience a lot about McBeth and lets them predict he may not be a trustworthy character, and that character development is significant to the play.

Scene 3

1.“They were suborned. Malcolm and Donalbain, the king’s two sons, are stol'n away and fled, which puts upon them suspicion of the deed.” (Act 2, Scene 4, Line 24-27)

• This quote is spoken by Macduff, to Ross and the Old Man. What Macduff is saying is that h doesn’t believe that the servants were the ones who killed the king. He believes it was the king’s two sons, Malcom and Donalbain, because they ran away that night. Now the audience has a different perspective on the murder, and may have a different idea of who murdered the king. This quote is very significant to the play because it gives a more realistic option of the king’s potential murderers. It makes a lot more sense that the two brothers would kill the king, considering one of them may have the chance to take his spot as king.

Scene 4

2. “He is already named and gone to Scone to be invested.” (Act 2, Scene 4, Line 31-32)

• Macduff has just said this to Ross and the Old Man. He is talking about how now that the king is dead, and the brothers are gone, Macbeth will become king. This is very significant to the play because it makes this murder seem like more of an ambitious scheme to become king. Macbeth was the first person to say that the king had died, and he was very quick to blame and kill the guards. This quote will give the audience one more potential murderer to think about, and add even more suspense to the play.

Scene 4

3. “Ah, good father, thou seest the heavens, as troubled with man’s act, threatens his bloody stage. By th' clock ’tis day, and yet dark night strangles the travelling 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?” (Act 2, Scene 4, Lines 4-9)

• This quote is spoken by Ross to the old man. Ross is refering to how depressing this whole situation is, and how darkness seems to be overpowering everything else. Although this quote does not add much to any character or realese any exciting information about the plot, it is still significant. The imagery in the whole play is blood and darkness, and this quote about how the darkness is so overpowering really adds to that and makes the imagery so much stronger. It leaves the audience with a feeling of depression and hopelessness.

Scene 4

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