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Act Two
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Is this a dagger?
Read Macbeths Is this a dagger? speech in Act
Two, Scene One.
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Is this a dagger?
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Guilt
Read the whole of Act Two, Scene Two.
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Headline techniques
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Images
There are many recurrent images in Macbeth. Can you
think of any images that occur in Act Two?
Did you think of these?
sleep
blood
Look out for references to these images as you study the
rest of the play.
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Sleep
As soon as the crime has been committed, both Macbeth
and others have difficulty sleeping.
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Blood
After murdering Duncan, Macbeth returns with blood on
his hands. Lady Macbeth tells him to wash this filthy
witness from your hand. Macbeth despairs that he will
ever be able to clean his hands, asking Will all great
Neptunes ocean wash this blood / Clean from my
hand?
The blood acts as a metaphor for the evil crime they have
committed, a crime that cannot simply be washed away.
Like their guilt, the blood stains their minds.
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