![]() The sons sleeping in the second chamber had awoke, and when they “cried, ‘God bless us’ and ‘Amen’” (II.ii.29), Macbeth could not say “Amen” himself. He proclaims, “I have done the deed” (II.ii.14), but noises fright him as well. And yet, she is rattled, starting at owl shrieks and admitting, “Had not resembled // My father as he slept, I had done’t” (II.ii.12-13). In Act Two, Scene Two, Lady Macbeth enters, “bold” (II.ii.1) and on “fire” (II.ii.2), having left the king’s guards passed out from drugged drinks. With his own dagger now drawn, he heads off to kill Duncan. When he realizes that it leads him in “the way was going” (II.i.43), he now sees it covered with “gouts of blood” (II.i.47). And it seems cursed thoughts come to him as well, as he hallucinates a dagger floating in the air, “a dagger of the mind, a false creation” (II.i.39). Macbeth claims to not think of the witches, but says that at some point in the near future he does want to talk about it.īanquo and Fleance leave to go to bed, and Macbeth is left alone. Well, I guess we know what those cursed thoughts are now. ![]() To you they have showed some truth” (II.i.21-22). Banquo then says, “I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters. Macbeth enters, and this gives Banquo the opportunity to move on to happier thoughts: Duncan, now abed, was in “unusual pleasure” (II.i.14) and had given Lady Macbeth a diamond. One wonders what those cursèd thoughts are. The king visits, Macbeth vacillates, Lady Macbeth manipulates, and the first act ends with murder on Macbeths’ minds.Īct Two, Scene One of Macbeth takes us to the battlements of Macbeth’s castle at Inverness, where Banquo and his son Fleance ponder the late night sky.īanquo knows that it’s time for sleep but he fears “the curséd thoughts that nature // Gives way to in repose” (II.i.9-10). Lady Macbeth, hearing of the prophecy, begins to plan Duncan’s murder, fearing her husband is too kind to move forward on this himself. Macbeth begins to flirt with the idea of becoming king, but learns that Duncan has named his own son Malcolm as his successor. They hail Macbeth as Thane of Glamis (his title before the battle), Thane of Cawdor (which he won in battle, only he doesn’t know it yet), and King hereafter they also say Banquo is better off than Macbeth in a way–he will father kings but not be one himself. The witches meet Macbeth and his brother-in-arms Banquo. ![]() Duncan, King of Scotland, facing rebellion and treachery, has his battle saved by the military exploits of Macbeth, on whom he will confer the land and titles of the treacherous Thane of Cawdor. Previously in Macbeth: Witches wait to meet with Macbeth.
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