Act 2 Scene 4

Act 2 Scene 4

1. Ross and Old man talk about the darkness and unnaturalness of the events that mirror Duncan's murder

   • Suspicion of Malcom - who has now fled
     • Macbeth has been elected king- has gone to Scone to be crowned
       • Macduff does not attend the ceremony
         • Duncan's body is to be placed in a sacred tomb

2. Pathetic fallacy

   • 'dark night strangles the travelling lamp'
     • darkness- foreshadowing
       • disruption of the Great Chain of Being
     • 'the heavens' are 'troubled with man's act'
     • 'sore night'
   • the sun is obscured
     • owls kill falcons
       • Duncan's horses eat each other