macbeth: act two the deed & the aftermath. summary of a2s2 lady macbeth waits tensely for her...
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Macbeth: Act TwoThe Deed & The Aftermath
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Summary of A2S2
• Lady Macbeth waits tensely for her husband to commit the murder.
• Macbeth enters the room, and his wife urges him to wash the blood of his hands. He has brought the daggers back.
• Lady Macbeth goes back to smear the faces of the drugged grooms with blood as Macbeth cannot bring himself to return.
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Macbeth & the Dagger• Consider the following after you
watch the video: –What does the dagger say about
Macbeth’s imagination? –Do you think Macbeth is feeling
stronger or weaker during this scene?
• Write your answers on a piece of foolscap paper.
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Possible Answers
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Key points of this scene• Lady Macbeth reveals that she would
have killed Duncan herself, if he had not resembled her father as he slept. – This is a humanising element. Lady Macbeth is
not as cruel and heartless as she has been portrayed earlier.
– Is she really as tough as she made herself out to be?
– How diferent is she from Act 1 Scene 5, with the ‘unsex me now’ speech?
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Key points of this scene• After committing the murder,
Macbeth passed a room in which a man, calls out ‘Murder!’.
• Turns out it was Donalbain, one of the king’s sons.
• Macbeth had to stand outside waiting for them to sleep again before he could move on.
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Key points of this scene• One of them cries, ‘God bless us!’,
and the automatic reply is ‘Amen’ but Macbeth could not say it.
• He hears a voice proclaiming that he has murdered sleep, and that he would sleep no more.
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Title
• In Macbeth, the concept of ‘sleep’ belongs only to the innocent.
• After committing the crime, Macbeth says that he has murdered ‘sleep’, and that he will sleep no more.
• This is a foreshadowing of Macbeth and his wife’s suffering later – Macbeth is unable to sleep, and Lady Macbeth ends up sleepwalking out of guilt.
Significance of ‘sleep’ in the play
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Title
• Macbeth never answers Lady M’s question, gets distracted by an imaginary noise, asking her another question of his own.
• The cross-questions between them suggests extreme tension.
The Change
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Key points of A2S3• Lady Macbeth reveals that she would
have killed Duncan herself, if he had not resembled her father as he slept. – This is a humanising element. Lady Macbeth is
not as cruel and heartless as she has been portrayed earlier.
– Is she really as tough as she made herself out to be?
– How diferent is she from Act 1 Scene 5, with the ‘unsex me now’ speech?
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Quick Task• Choose a character among these options: – Macbeth / Lady Macbeth / Macduff
• Based on Act Two Scene III, write a paragraph in the voice of the character, answering the following questions. – What do I want?– What am I willing to do to get it?– What is in my way?– On whom can I rely, and whom do I fear?
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Take Home Assignment
• Completion of the worksheet given to you: Answers for compre should be on the worksheet, while essay questions should be written on foolscap paper.
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Housekeeping Matters• Please hand-up the Playbill
component of your project work by today. – The hard-copy version should be in by
6pm, in my locker (no. 26). – The soft-copy version should be emailed
to me by Monday.
• Literature Revision Workshop– Next Tuesday: 28 April 2011@ 2.30pm -
Class 2G