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Objective: Students will review important sections of Act II,
Scenes I-IV
MACBETH ACT II
Agenda for January 30, 20151.Macbeth Act II Quiz2.Review Quiz3.Key Scenes
SCENE I
• Banquo and his son, Fleance, are up and about in the middle of the night.
• They meet Macbeth, and Banquo delivers gifts from Duncan, including a rich diamond for Lady Macbeth.
• Banquo reminds Macbeth about the three witches, but Macbeth pretends that he hasn’t thought about them.
• Dagger Speech - Mental disturbance• Goes forward with plan to kill Duncan
PLOT
• How is Banquo’s conversation with Macbeth an example of dramatic irony?
• When Banquo mentions he dreamt of the witches, why does Macbeth hurriedly say he ‘thinks not of them’? Is this true?
• What does Macbeth imagine he sees?• Why does he see it? What does it represent?
THOUGHT QUESTIONS
SCENE II
• Lady Macbeth has done her job• She is anxiously awaiting Macbeth • Starts hearing things• Macbeth enters feeling very shaken• Feels he has murdered sleep (Meaning?)• Lady Macbeth is angry he brought the daggers
with him• Goes back to place them herself• Begin to hear knocking so they go to bed.
PLOT
• Lady Macbeth says, “My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.”
• What does this line mean?• “One cried ‘God bless us!’, and ‘Amen’ the other
As they had seen me with these hangman’s hands. Listening their fear, I could not say ‘Amen’, When they did say ‘God bless us!’”
• Why could Macbeth not say “Amen”?
QUOTES AND QUESTIONS
SCENE III
• Porter introduced for comic relief• Pretends he is guarding the gates of hell
(symbolic)?• Introduces “guests”: A farmer who killed
himself because his crops failed, A smooth talker who lied all through life, but couldn’t talk his way into Heaven, and a tailor who rips off his clients.
• Macduff and Lennox are at the door.• Macduff finds Duncan’s dead body
PLOT
• Macbeth says that he killed the guards out of passion against their crime.
• No one’s buying it…• Malcolm and Donalbain flee• Malcolm to England and Donalbain to Ireland
PLOT (CONT.)
• Donalbain says something interesting. “ There’s daggers in men’s smiles. The near in blood, the nearer the bloody.”
• What do we think this means?
THOUGHT QUESTIONS
SCENE IV
• Ross is walking with an old man• Discuss strange things that have happened • Macduff enters and says both sons have
left=looks suspicious• Announces Macbeth has been named king• This scene serves as a link to connect what has
gone before with the next act***
PLOT