Thursday 9th March 2023
Act 2, Scene 2
OFFSTAGE= Duncan murdered
● “That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold;”= LM empowered
● “What hath quench'd them hath given me fire.”= LM excited. Quench refers to guards
sleeping
● “I have drugg'd their possets,”= LM has helped Macbeth, accomplice, made it easier
● “Whether they live or die.”= coldness, detached
● “[Within] Who's there? what, ho!”- Macbeth hearing things, disturbed, distressed
● “Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done't.”= LM almost killed
Duncan herself
● “I have done the deed. “= Macbeth- regicide, Duncan is dead, guilt
● “This is a sorry sight.”= feels guilty, regretful- looking at hands which are bloody
● ‘Looking on his hands’= bloody
● “hangman's hands.”= Macbeth is an executioner: villain
● “ I could not say 'Amen,'”= Macbeth can’t talk to God: regicide, Divine Right of Kings
● “Consider it not so deeply.”= LM, Don’t think about it
● “These deeds must not be thought After these ways; so, it will make us mad.”=
Foreshadows LM committing suicide in Act 5; GUILT
● “Macbeth does murder sleep'”= Macbeth won’t sleep again, rest of para= all
metaphors for sleep
● “; Macbeth shall sleep no more.'”= Macbeth guilt
● “You do unbend your noble strength, to think So brainsickly of things”= LM, don’t
think about the murder, brainsickly=guilt, metaphor
● “Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must lie there: go carry
them; and smear The sleepy grooms with blood.”= LM, Macbeth not thinking clearly
● “I'll go no more: I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on't again I dare not.”=
Macbeth, guilt
● “Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures”= LM, takes
over, feels no guilt
● “'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil.”= LM, accuses Macbeth of acting
like a child
● “If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal; For it must seem their guilt.”=
LM will smear the blood on the guards
● ‘Exit. Knocking within’= Macduff arrival
● “they pluck out mine eyes.”= Macbeth, wants to become blind to not see what he has
done
● “My hands are of your colour; but I shame To wear a heart so white.”=LM, has blood
on her hands; didn’t kill him
● “A little water clears us of this deed:”=LM, dramatic irony
● “Be not lost So poorly in your thoughts.”= LM, encouraging him to not look guilty, LM
IN CONTROL
● “ 'twere best not know myself.”= Macbeth, now a villain
● “Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!”= Macbeth, undo the killing
Act 2, Scene 2
OFFSTAGE= Duncan murdered
● “That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold;”= LM empowered
● “What hath quench'd them hath given me fire.”= LM excited. Quench refers to guards
sleeping
● “I have drugg'd their possets,”= LM has helped Macbeth, accomplice, made it easier
● “Whether they live or die.”= coldness, detached
● “[Within] Who's there? what, ho!”- Macbeth hearing things, disturbed, distressed
● “Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done't.”= LM almost killed
Duncan herself
● “I have done the deed. “= Macbeth- regicide, Duncan is dead, guilt
● “This is a sorry sight.”= feels guilty, regretful- looking at hands which are bloody
● ‘Looking on his hands’= bloody
● “hangman's hands.”= Macbeth is an executioner: villain
● “ I could not say 'Amen,'”= Macbeth can’t talk to God: regicide, Divine Right of Kings
● “Consider it not so deeply.”= LM, Don’t think about it
● “These deeds must not be thought After these ways; so, it will make us mad.”=
Foreshadows LM committing suicide in Act 5; GUILT
● “Macbeth does murder sleep'”= Macbeth won’t sleep again, rest of para= all
metaphors for sleep
● “; Macbeth shall sleep no more.'”= Macbeth guilt
● “You do unbend your noble strength, to think So brainsickly of things”= LM, don’t
think about the murder, brainsickly=guilt, metaphor
● “Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must lie there: go carry
them; and smear The sleepy grooms with blood.”= LM, Macbeth not thinking clearly
● “I'll go no more: I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on't again I dare not.”=
Macbeth, guilt
● “Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures”= LM, takes
over, feels no guilt
● “'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil.”= LM, accuses Macbeth of acting
like a child
● “If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal; For it must seem their guilt.”=
LM will smear the blood on the guards
● ‘Exit. Knocking within’= Macduff arrival
● “they pluck out mine eyes.”= Macbeth, wants to become blind to not see what he has
done
● “My hands are of your colour; but I shame To wear a heart so white.”=LM, has blood
on her hands; didn’t kill him
● “A little water clears us of this deed:”=LM, dramatic irony
● “Be not lost So poorly in your thoughts.”= LM, encouraging him to not look guilty, LM
IN CONTROL
● “ 'twere best not know myself.”= Macbeth, now a villain
● “Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!”= Macbeth, undo the killing
