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Thursday, April 3, 2014

Macbeth Act 2

-Fleance is Banquo's son
-Banqou can't sleep because of cursed thoughts
-he is surprised to see Macbeth awake and tells Macbeth about how he dreams of the witches and thinks they may tell some truth but Macbeth says he hasn't thought of them since then and wishes to discuss it at a later time
-Banqou and Fleance leave and Macbeth has a vision of a dagger in front of him
-Macbeth reaches for dagger but fails and he thinks it's just his imagination when he sees blood
-vision shows his unease over killing Duncan but he will still do it 
-Lady Macbeth signals the chamberlains are asleep with a bell and Macbeth goes I Duncan's castle
-Lady Macbeth imagines Macbeth killing Duncan and she heard him cry out and is scared he failed but doesn't understand how he could because she set everything out perfectly for him
-She says she should've killed him herself
-Macbeth comes and says he has killed the king and he heard the chamberlains wake up and pray and then go back to sleep and Macbeth wanted to pray with them but he couldn't
-Lady Macbeth angry Macbeth sti has dagger cuz he was suppose to leave it and Macbeth refuses to go back so she does it
-Macbeth heard knocking and even when Lady Macbeth comes back be hears it again 
-A porter goes to answer the knocking and finds Macduff and Lennox who say it took him forever to open it
-porter says he was up late and says it's the effect of alcohol that makes you sleepy
-Macbeth enters and asks Macduff where king is and Macduff says he still sleeping so Macbeth offers to take him to him
-Macduff comes running back saying king has been murdered and Macbeth an Lennox run to look
-Lady Macbeth enters and is horrified to hear that such a thing happened under her roof
-Malcolm and Donalbain arrive saying they heard their father has been killed probably by chamberlains 
-Macbeth says he killed the chamberlains due to his anger which makes Macduff suspicious 
-Lady Macbeth faints and is taken away
-Malcolm and Donalbain say they will probably be killed next and flee the court
-Ross and an old man talk about what has happened
-foreshadowing?: an owl killed a falcon and Dancuns horses that were well trained were acting wildly and ate one another before all this
-Macduff enters and says Macbeth has been made king by other lords and is on his way to Scone to be crowned
-Macduff also tells them the chamberlains probably were paid to kill Duncon and ppl are suspicious of two kings Malcolm and Donalbain because they fled the scene
 

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