Month: December 2016

Scene 1

Banquo suspects that Macbeth killed the king but is at joy at the second half of the prophecy, that his own children would be king. Banquo is invited to come to the Macbeths’ palace.

Scene 2

Macbeth is at his palace before Banquo arrives. He is worried that the monarchy will rise and learn that Macbeth killed the king and framed the lords. Lady Macbeth eases his worry proving further that she is the puppet master in the situation.

Scene 3

We open with the three suspected murderers as they hear a sound, they think it is Macbeth joining them but it is Banquo. The three murderers attack Banquo. Banquo says treachery and is murdered. The man with Banquo, Fleance escapes with Banquo’s body.

Act 2 Scene 2: Macbeth and Lady Macbeth both change in this Scene as Macbeth sees himself as a murderer and says he will sleep no more, where as Lady Macbeth seems more powerful and more like a puppet master than ever.

Quote: Macbeth: “sleep no more Macbeth does murder sleep.”

Act 2

Scene 1: Banquo and hos son are wandering the halls of Macbeth’s castle when the see Macbeth Banquo tells him that he had had a dream of the 3 sisters and when Banquo exits Macbeth had a vision of a clean dagger turned bloody

Scene 2: Lady Macbeth enters where she sees Macbeth with two bloody daggers. She asks weather the lords had been drunk enough for the blame to be place upon them. Macbeth talks about sleep and that he would sleep no more.

Scene 3: We open with the porter who appears to be drunk. We know that Macbeth had just killed the king but nobody else does the porter has a soliloquy where he talks about death and hell a lot. Macduff and Lennox enter through a knocking door they talk with the porter until Macbeth enters bearing the news of the kings death. They ring a bell calling of treason and murder though yet they do not know who killed the king. Enter Lady Macbeth who asks what happened. Malcom, the kings son, is told that his father had been murdered and when he ask who the culprit was the blame is placed upon the lords in the same chamber as the king, just as Lady Macbeth and Macbeth had wanted.