Friday 10th March 2023
Act 2 Scene 3
● “The night has been unruly:”= Lennox, Macbeth has gone against nature
● “Lamentings heard i' the air; strange screams of death,”= Lennox, Death,
Lamentings=Sadness
● “'Twas a rough night.”= Macbeth, understatement, Dramatic Irony
● Exclamation marks throughout Macduff’s paragraph where he tells the others of
Duncan’s death- tells the actor to act shocked.
● “Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, And look on death itself!”= Macduff,
metaphor, their sleep is fake, Duncan’s is real and eternal; dead
● “O gentle lady,”=Macduff, Dramatic irony
● “The repetition, in a woman's ear, Would murder as it fell.”= Macduff, underestimates
LM
● “Woe, alas! What, in our house?”= LM, acting innocent
● “Had I but died an hour before this chance,”= Macbeth, dramatic
● “this instant, There 's nothing serious in mortality:”= Macbeth, Nihilism(nothing
important), comes true for him
● “All is but toys:”= Macbeth, we’re all toys, nothing matters
● “Those of his chamber, as it seem'd, had done 't: Their hands and faces were an
badged with blood;”= Lennox, LM did this
● “O, yet I do repent me of my fury, That I did kill them.”= Macbeth, cover up- no
consequence
● “And his gash'd stabs look'd like a breach in nature”= Macbeth,brutal murder,
Duncan stabbed multiple times
● “their daggers Unmannerly breech'd with gore:”= Macbeth, scene of devastation
● “Help me hence, ho!”= LM, fakes fainting
● “And question this most bloody piece of work, To know it further.”= Banquo,
suspicious
● “Fears and scruples shake us: In the great hand of God I stand; and thence Against
the undivulged pretence I fight Of treasonous malice.”= Banquo, true to the King,
heroic
● “And so do I.”= Macduff, ominous, foreshadowing
● “There's daggers in men's smiles:”= Donalbain, metaphor, imagery- can’t trust
anyone, A+R (Appearance and reality)
Act 2 Scene 3
● “The night has been unruly:”= Lennox, Macbeth has gone against nature
● “Lamentings heard i' the air; strange screams of death,”= Lennox, Death,
Lamentings=Sadness
● “'Twas a rough night.”= Macbeth, understatement, Dramatic Irony
● Exclamation marks throughout Macduff’s paragraph where he tells the others of
Duncan’s death- tells the actor to act shocked.
● “Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, And look on death itself!”= Macduff,
metaphor, their sleep is fake, Duncan’s is real and eternal; dead
● “O gentle lady,”=Macduff, Dramatic irony
● “The repetition, in a woman's ear, Would murder as it fell.”= Macduff, underestimates
LM
● “Woe, alas! What, in our house?”= LM, acting innocent
● “Had I but died an hour before this chance,”= Macbeth, dramatic
● “this instant, There 's nothing serious in mortality:”= Macbeth, Nihilism(nothing
important), comes true for him
● “All is but toys:”= Macbeth, we’re all toys, nothing matters
● “Those of his chamber, as it seem'd, had done 't: Their hands and faces were an
badged with blood;”= Lennox, LM did this
● “O, yet I do repent me of my fury, That I did kill them.”= Macbeth, cover up- no
consequence
● “And his gash'd stabs look'd like a breach in nature”= Macbeth,brutal murder,
Duncan stabbed multiple times
● “their daggers Unmannerly breech'd with gore:”= Macbeth, scene of devastation
● “Help me hence, ho!”= LM, fakes fainting
● “And question this most bloody piece of work, To know it further.”= Banquo,
suspicious
● “Fears and scruples shake us: In the great hand of God I stand; and thence Against
the undivulged pretence I fight Of treasonous malice.”= Banquo, true to the King,
heroic
● “And so do I.”= Macduff, ominous, foreshadowing
● “There's daggers in men's smiles:”= Donalbain, metaphor, imagery- can’t trust
anyone, A+R (Appearance and reality)
