Act 2 Discussion
The favorite part is the scene where Macbeth finally kills Duncan but has no strength to go back and put the daggers back, which lady Macbeth manages to do. It is fascinating that the husband and the wife have varying strengths that complement each other in some form. The lady has no guts to carry out the murders, yet the husband can carry out the murders and not be conscious to face his victims in the process of getting away with the injustice. As Macbeth mourns, “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?” (Macbeth 2.2 58-59)? Lady Macbeth is unbothered, claiming that her heart is unstrained and that a little water would clean up the blood off their hands. The depiction of blood helps outline Macbeth’s feelings after the murder, he asks Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?’ (Act 2, scene 2, lines 55–61). Such indicates his deep guilt from the realization of taking a life he considered faultless. Also, the use of “Night” depicts the existence of evil in Lady Macbeth and her husband’s acts of murder. Still, the act utilizes imagery involving a falcon, which is associated with loyalty and an owl who preys at night. “On Tuesday last, / A falcon tow’ring in her pride of place / Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.'( 10). In this case, Dunkan is the royal falcon, while Macbeth is the owl.
Part B
The night has been unruly. Where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say, Lamentings heard i’ the air; (2.1.33-36). Even as they laid, the night has been uncontrollable with strange sorrow as chimneys were blown down. The lines signify the ordeal that follows in the night of Dunkan’s murder, outlining that a disaster is on its way. Although everyone fell asleep at night, a lot of evil deeds seems to have happened. Lennox note takes on the form of pathetic fallacy in using “night” to depict strangeness and sorrow.
Work cited
Act 2, Scene 3 of Macbeth, The Tragedy Of Macbeth. New York :