Sophomore English
Name: ______________________ Date: ______
Mrs. Fairman
Macbeth - Act 2: Possible Statue maker Quotes / Other important quotes
(2016) Directions for Statue Maker:
1. You and a partner (s) will discuss significant lines from Act 2 scenes 1 and 2 and prepare a “statue”
of your character saying these lines. Did you ever play the game statue - maker when you were younger?
2. One student (or two students if two characters) will read the lines for the class, all students in group
will hold a pose or do some type of movement that enhances the meaning of your lines, all of you
explain your ideas to the class after your statue and line reading.
3. Your statue should reveal what your character(s) is / are doing or thinking exactly at that moment.
This means thinking carefully about what your character has said and done so far in the play.
4. All students should share (equally) the following information with your classmates: potential
meaning of your lines, and whether your lines connect to a character’s development, a conflict
(internal or external), imagery, or a theme, or another significant literary element.
5. Use the chart below to take notes on the meaning of the other lines that your classmates present to us,
as well as marking / annotating these lines in your text.
Act 2 Lines
Your notes from classmates’ presentations
1. All's well.
I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters: / To
you they have show'd some truth. (2.1.24 – 26)
2. Is this a dagger which I 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,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
(2.1.44 – 51)
3. I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell. (2.1.75 –
77)
4. That which hath made them drunk hath made
me bold; What hath quench'd them hath given me
fire. (2.2.1 – 3).
Also part of a classmate’s “Living the Lines” quote
Also part of a classmate’s “Living the Lines” quote
5. Alack, I am afraid they have awaked,
And 'tis not done. The 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. (2.2.13 – 17).
6. A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.
(2.2.29).
Also part of a classmate’s “Living the Lines” quote
7. But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'?
I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen’ Stuck
in my throat. (2.2.42-44)
These deeds must not be thought
After these ways; so, it will make us mad.
(2.2.45 – 46)
Also part of a classmate’s “Living the Lines” quote
8. Still it cried 'Sleep no more!' to all the house:
'Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore
Cawdor
Shall sleep no more; Macbeth shall sleep no
more.' (2.2.54 – 57)
9. Go get some water,
And wash this filthy witness from your hand.
Why did you bring these daggers from the place?
They must lie there: go carry them; and smear /
The sleepy grooms with blood. (2.2.60 – 64)
10. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will
rather
The multitudinous seas in incarnadine,
Making the green one red. (2.2.78 – 81)
11. My hands are of your colour; but I shame
To wear a heart so white. (2.2.83 – 83)
Also part of a classmate’s “Living the Lines” quote
12. A little water clears us of this deed:
How easy is it, then! (2.2.86 – 87)
Also part of a classmate’s “Living the Lines” quote
13. To know my deed, 'twere best not
know myself. / Wake Duncan with thy
knocking! I would thou couldst! (2.2.94 –
95).
14. To Ireland I. Our separated fortune /
Shall keep us both the safer. Where we
are. / There’s daggers in men’s smiles.
(2.3.163- 165).
15. 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 England. (2.3.160 – 162).
Not a statue, but who said this and why –
what was the character’s motive?
Not a statue, but who said this and why –
what was the character’s motive?
AND in Act 2, scene 3…..
16. Knock, knock, knock! Who’s there, in
the devil’s name? / Faith, here’ an
equivocator that could swear in both
scales against either scale, who /
committed treason enough for God’s sake
/ yet could not equivocate to heaven.
17. Malcolm and Donalbain, the King’s
two sons, / Are stol’n away and fled,
which puts upon them / Suspicion of the
deed.
18. Had I died an hour before this chance, / I had
lived a blessed time (2.3.107-108).
Also a classmate’s “Living the Lines” quote
19. “Oh, yet I do repent me of my fury, / That I
did kill them.” (2.3.124 – 125)
Overall Observations
Major images:
Character developments:
Plot developments:
Conflicts:
Theme(s):