- Act 2 Quotes
Know the speaker and context.
Know what is being said.
Know what is significant about what is being said –
- does it show something about a character’s motivations?
- something about the relationship between two characters?
- something about a change in a character’s personality?
- something about theme of the play?
*The first page number listed is from the No Fear Shakespeare.
Macbeth
If
you stick with me, when the time comes, there will be something in it for you.
(51)
Macbeth
Art
thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation, (53)
Proceeding
from the heat-oppressed brain?
Macbeth
I’ll
go no more (59)
I am
afraid to think what I have done;
Look
on ‘it I dare not.
Macbeth
Will
all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood (60)
Clean
from my hand?
Lady Macbeth
A
little water clears of us this deed. (60)
MacDuff
O
gentle lady, (70)
‘Tis
not for you to hear what I can speak;
The
repetition in a woman’s ear,
Would
murder as it fell.
Malcolm
To
show an unfelt sorrow is an office (76)
Which
the false man does easy.
- Themes
Write a statement about each of the questions related
to themes in Macbeth.
At this point, whom do
you blame most for Macbeth’s actions and why?
Write four statements
that you think the play makes about violence.
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