Act II review

Act Two set up and initiated the main conflict. It also set the story up for its climax. At the beginning of act two we see macbeth becoming further influenced to kill the king. After a discussion with banquo macbeth hallucinates and imagines a dagger."Is this a dagger see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet i see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight, or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation, i see thee yet, in form as palpable as this which now i draw." He removes a dagger from his pocket and decides finally that he will kill the king, and feels guilty and starts to lose his sanity thereafter. There is also a glimpse of sympathy shown by lady macbeth in which she does not kill the king herself. She sets the daggers down for macbeth to use to murder the king, however she does not do the deed because he resembles her father. "Alack, I am afraid they have awaked and 'tis not done! Th' attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready' He could not miss 'em. had he not resembled My father as he slept, i had done't."

When the king is killed macbeth is in a pitiful stage of confusion and paranoia. His wife becomes the strenght of the pair. They pretend they were sleeping and there are knocks upon the door. Macbeth pulls himself together and leads a guy to talk to the king and pretends to be shocked to learn that the king is dead. Word is spread further through the premises and the kings sons suspect that people will suspect them of the murder. Also because they were the top two on the assasination list. to become King of England. They decide to leave the country, one goes to England and the other to Ireland. " What will you do? Let's not consort with them. To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy. I'll to Engand. (Db) To Ireland, I; our seperated fortune shall keep us both the safer. Where we are There's daggers in men's smiles; the near in blood, the nearer bloody.

I think that macbeth is going to become nervous and do whatever he can to make sure he is not suspected. Even if it means accusing the sons. I think that he will accuse the son because not only does this mean he takes the blame off of him it means that he can lead them to be suspected and possibly killed. This makes it easier for him in his plot to become king. Because he is elimating the heirs to the throne.