Macbeth Powerpoint: Act II
Dana Steketee and Nancy Li
Period 4 Group 6
Scene I Quotes
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Macbeth: “Now o’er the one half-world nature
seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse the
curtained sleep.”
Interpretation: This passage is saying that the
half the world is asleep (it is night) and
therefore, Macbeth can kill without anyone
noticing. He acknowledges that he is about to
shatter the night’s peace with his wicked
ambitions.
Scene I Quotes (con.)
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Macbeth: “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.”
Explanation: The
church bell represents
two things; the bell
tolled when Duncan
was murdered, and
Duncan’s fate of going
to heaven or hell
(hence it being a
church bell).
Scene II
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Macbeth: “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.‘”
Interpretation: A voice inside
Macbeth’s head is crying to the
whole house that Macbeth (Thane
of Glamis, and Cawdor) had
disrupted Duncan’s sleep when
he murdered the King; therefore
Macbeth himself should not be
allowed to sleep. That’s why we
chose a picture of a sleepwalker.
Scene II (con.)
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Lady Macbeth: “My hands are of your colour; but I
shame to wear a heart so white.”
Interpretation: Macbeth is too afraid to go back to
the murder scene and so Lady Macbeth goes and
frames the guards. When she returns, she almost
boasts, saying she has also stained her hands with
blood and that she would be ashamed to be as
cowardly as Macbeth.
Picture: We picked something that
literally was white, heart-shaped,
and could be worn (although it
looks silver).
Scene II (con.)
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Porter: Faith, sir, we were
carousing till the second
cock; and drink, sir, is a
great provoker of three
things.”
Interpretation: The porter
is talking to Macduff about
how he was drunk and up
all night until 3:00 a.m.
Picture: This is a Vodka
bottle (whisky) which
shows how much the
porter had to drink that
early morning.
Scene III
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Macduff: “O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor
heart cannot conceive nor name thee!”
Interpretation: Macduff just found Duncan’s body
and has come back to Macbeth and Lennox to
inform them of the horrible act.
Scene III (con.)
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Macduff: “Confusion now hath his masterpiece:
most sacrilegious murder hath broke open the
Lord’s anointed temple and stole thence the life
o’ th’ building.”
Interpretation: Macduff is comparing Duncan to
a church. A church is a holy place and back then
many people believed that the king was also
holy. Therefore by killing the king, someone has
committed a sin as great as breaking open a
church.
The picture shows a church with its
roof about to collapse. It’s
something precious to many that
had been ruined, like King Duncan.
Scene III (con.)
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Macduff: “’Tis not for you to
hear what I can speak: the
repetition in a woman’s ear
would murder as it fell.”
Interpretation: Macduff is
warning Lady Macbeth that
the news of a murder is too
strong for such a fragile
woman’s ears to hear.
Picture: This is a picture representing
the difference between men and
women; yin and yang. Macduff
believes that a woman is too weak to
listen to such a strong statement.
Scene IV
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Lennox: “Their hands and
faces were all badged with
blood; so were their daggers,
which unwiped we found upon
their pillows.”
Interpretation: Lennox reports
that the daggers that killed
King Duncan were on the
guards pillows, still with his
blood on them. To him, all the
evidence (blood on the guards’
faces) proved the guards
guilty. It seems Lady
Macbeth’s cover up was
successful.
Scene IV (con.)
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Donalbain: “Where we are, there’s daggers in
men’s smiles; the near in blood, the nearer
bloody.”
Interpretation: “There are many deceivers who
smile at us but still plot to murder us. The ones
closest to us would most likely be the ones to do
it.”
Picture: This shows how smiles
don’t always show a person’s
true intentions. The smile doesn’t
cover up the blood stain at all.
THE END
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