Act 2

Act 2

1. Scene 1

   • Banquo and his son are outside Macbeths castle
     • Banquo tells him that he dreamt of the witches.
   • Macbeth has a soliloquy and sees an imaginary dagger
     • "Is this a dagger which I see before me, /The handle toward my hand"
       • Imagines he can see king Duncan's blood on the dagger

2. Scene 2

   • Lady Macbeth drugged the guards.
   • Macbeth comes into scene holding 2 bloody daggers
     • "I have done the deed"
     • Macbeth is disturbed by the blood on the back if his hand
       • "This is a sorry sight"
     • Lady Macbeth is angry with Macbeth for bringing the daggers in with him and call him a coward
       • She takes the daggers back to the kings room and smears blood over the guards in an attempt to frame them
         • "My hands are of your colour but I shame / to wear a heart so white"

3. Scene 3

   • Scene begins with a drunken porter being awoken by macduff banging not the door to the castle
     • Macduff goes to wake the king
       • Returns in shock.
         • "O horror, horror, horror
         • Macduff sounds alarm for murder and treason
           • The thanes decide to take action and have a meeting.
             • They believe there is still a threat.
               • "There's daggers in mens smiles"
     • Lenux describes the night as "unruly" with storms
       • Pathetic fallacy

4. Scene 4

   • Ross speaks to a man about the natural things that has happened that night.
   • Macbeth has been made king.