Act 2 Events
Who stated that they were dreaming of the "Weird Sisters?"
Banquo
Whose ghost appears to Macbeth?
Banquo
Who was instructed to come and wake the king (2 ppl)?
Macduff and Lennox
"I have thee not, and yet I see thee still./ Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible/ To feeling as to sight?"
Effects of Fear & Guilt
"And I, the mistress of your charm/ The close contriver of all harms,"
Couplet
Why was Lady Macbeth unable to kill Duncan herself?
He looked like her father
How does Macbeth ruin his own plan to kill Banquo and his son?
Hires a third murderer without telling the others
Who finds Duncan's dead body?
Macduff
"Sit, worthy friends. My lord is often thus/ And hath been from his youth. Pray you, keep seat./ The fit is momentary; upon a thought/ He will again be well"
Appearance v.s. Reality
MURDERER: "My lord, his throat is cut. That I did for him."
MACBETH: "Thou art the best o’ th’ cutthroats"
Which of the sons leave to Ireland?
Donalbain
What went wrong with the murderers that allowed Fleance to flee?
The torch was put out
Who was drunkenly pretending that he was allowing sinners into hell?
Porter/Gatekeeper
"By th’ clock ’tis da/ And yet dark night strangles 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?"
Light v.s. Dark
"Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell/ That summons thee to heaven or to hell." (not the couplet)
Foreshadowing
How does Macbeth deviate from their original plan?
1. Took the daggers back
2. Kills the guards
Who goes to England to support Malcolm?
Macduff
Who was mad at the three witches (Not Macbeth)?
Hecate
"Had he not resembled/ My father as he slept, I had done ’t."
Reversal of values
"The night has been unruly. Where we lay,/ Our chimneys were blown down and, as they say,"
Pathetic Fallacy
What is Macbeth's fatal vision?
1. Floating Dagger
2. Starts to Bleed
3. Leads him to Duncan
What is the significance of:“upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,/And put a barren scepter in my gripe”?
Macbeth doesn't have any current heirs
Who was speaking to a lord at the end of Act 3 about how Macduff skipped the coronation?
Lennox
"I am in blood/ Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more,/ Returning were as tedious as go o’er./ Strange things I have in head that will to hand,/ Which must be acted ere they may be scanned."
Effects of Ambition
"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." (not allusion)
Hyperbole