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Macbeth Act 2 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 'Macbeth shall sleep no more'
      - disturbed mind - 'cursed thoughts' (nightmares)
      - prediction - something bad will happen, worried
        
        'cursed'
    - - wondering what Macbeth is doing up at that time - losign trust
      - his conscience is not 'at rest'
  - - - BANQUO
      - 'What, sir, not yet at rest? The king's a-bed:
      - He hath been in unusual pleasure, and
      - Sent forth great largess to your offices.
      - This diamond he greets your wife withal,
      - By the name of most kind hostess; and shut up
      - In measureless content.
        
        irony 'measureless content' and 'kind hostess'. Sad bc Duncan is perfect guest and brings gifts so the next part is sadder + also shows he is a kind king and person
      - MACBETH
      - Being unprepared,
      - Our will became the servant to defect;
      - Which else should free have wrought.'
    - - MACBETH
      - 'Being unprepared,
      - Our will became the servant to defect,
      - Which else should free have wrought.'
    - - not true he is planning to kill Duncan
        
        lying to his best friend
      - contradicts himself
        
        MACBETH
        
        'If you shall cleave to my consent, when ’tis,
        
        It shall make honor for you.'
        
        ironic because Macbeth will kill Banquo
  - - - 'bosom franchised' -free of guilt /// allegience clear - faithful to Duncan
    - - flatters King (Banquo is his ancestor)
  - - - hallucinating - evil is taking over him
      - 'A dagger of the mind, a false creation'
        
        acknowledges that his mind is being corrupted
        
        'bloody business'
        
        euphemism for murder
        
        scared to admit what is about to do directly
        
        'business' - doesn't acknowledge Duncan as a person at this point and views him as collateral damage
        
        perhaps to feel less guilty
        
        'full of scorpions is mind mind, dear wife'
        
        evil is taking over him
        
        'proceeding from the heat-oppressèd brain'
        
        fevered brain
        
        foreshadows Macbeth oppressing people in Scotland
        
        under pressure so feverish
      - 'handle toward my hand'
        
        leading him to hurt
        
        'Thou marshall’st me the way that I was going,'
        
        perhaps the witches planted it there
        
        links Macbeth to evil and the supernatural
        
        'The bell invites me.'
        
        'Come, let me clutch thee.
        I have thee not'
        
        perhaps warning him against sin by being unavailable to him - a sign?
      - 'I see...thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood'
        
        connecting Macbeth to evil
      - self-doubt, hesistating, questioning himself - does he want to go forward?
    - - deadly sight - scared of murdering Duncan - moral compass
        
        attitude to murder changed
    - - double meaning - first means asleep and having nightmares, second forshadows disruption of natural order
    - - affected by witchcraft
      - 'pale' connotes to death
      - sacrifices
    - - Alarumed by his sentinel, the wolf,
        
        awakened
        
        wolf - familiar of witches - witches role in Duncan's murder
      - Whose howl’s his watch, thus with his stealthy pace,
        
        stealthy - surreptitious and cautious manner to not be heard/seen bc it would not be approved of
        
        M knows murder is wrong
      - With Tarquin’s ravishing strides, towards his design
        
        Roman prince Tarquin - raped Lucrece
        
        'ravish' - rape
      - Moves like a ghost.'
        
        real or imaginary?
      - 'withered murder,
    - - 'Thou sure and firm-set earth,
      - Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
        
        fears someone will find him - planning to espace
      - Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,
        
        prate- personification - 'talk foolishly or at tedious length about something.' - definitions from Oxford languages
      - And take the present horror from the time,
        
        fear
      - Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives.
        
        M not living ? because he is in a bad place
      - Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.'
        
        his bravery is going because of him talking ab murder perhaps because he is afraid of what might happen and is about to come to a realization - shows how emotional he is about king
        
        cold breath - will be Duncan after death
      - 'Hard ground, don’t listen to the direction of my steps. I don’t want you to echo back where I am and break the terrible stillness of this moment, a silence that is so appropriate for what I’m about to do. While I stay here talking, Duncan lives. The more I talk, the more my courage cools.' - Spark notes translation
    - - questioning Duncan's character perhaps on purpose bc he doesnt wanna feel bad ab kiling a good person
    - - personifying the dagger to blame his thoughts on something out of his control
    - - refference to 'instruments of darkness'
    - - sleep abusing him
      - 'curtained' refers to sleeping King. Sense of prediction
- - - - 'given me fire' - made her eager
        
        'fire' - hell? evil?
      - 'quenched' - silenced drugged
      - not as bold as she maes out, needs alcohol
    - - shouting - is worked up
    - - juxtaposition
    - - was bluffing earlier and has a softer side
    - - irony - will die because of guilt
        
        forshadowing
    - - nature is reacting to the killing of Duncan - represents disruption of natural order - sinful
    - - 'brainsickly' - cowardly - still manipulating him
        
        'brain-sickly' and 'noble strength' - juxtapoistion
      - 'noble strength' - suggests she expects better from him - manipulation
    - - 'a little water will clear us of this deed'
      - irony because later she says 'out damned spot' and 'all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand'
    - - hesitating, wavering, cowardly
      - she then takes charge by saying 'Give me the daggers' - imperative that shows she is in control - surprises Shakespearean audience as she is female and in a patriarchal society and doesn't conform to gender roles
    - - 'The sleeping and the dead
      - Are but as pictures. 'Tis the eye of childhood
      - That fears a painted devil.'
      - irony because she will kill herself because of her guilt
    - - she has blood on her hands (literally and figuratively) but she isn't cowardly (white heart symbolises cowardice)
        
        irony bc she will kill herself bc she can't wash the spot away
    - - saying he has lost his never - irony because she will commit suicide bc she can't wash the deed away
        
        'Be not lost
        //So poorly in your thoughts.'
  - - - guilt
      - sin
      - 'But wherefore could not I pronounce “Amen”?
        
        I had most need of blessing, and “Amen”
        
        guilt
        
        Stuck in my throat.'
    - - Macbeth destroys his conscience and peace of mind which is what sleep symbolises
      - sleep symbolises peace so Macbeth will be tortured because he can't sleep
        
        'the innocent sleep,
        
        Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,
        
        The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath,
        
        implies Duncan is at peace because he is dead and therefore in a better position than Macbeth - ironic bc Macbeth thought becoming King would make him in the better position
        
        Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
        
        Chief nourisher in life’s feast.'
      - 'Still it cried, “Sleep no more!” to all the house.
        
        “Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor
        
        Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more.”'
      - Murders Duncan in his sleep
    - - afraid of what he has become
    - - guilty and scared that someone will find this - mental torture
    - - afraid of what he has done
    - - 'Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
      - Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
      - The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
        
        hand stains all the oceans of the world - may forshadow the havoc and bloodshed subsequent to Macbeth's deed
      - Making the green one red.'
    - - 'To know my deed, ’twere best not know myself.'
        
        'if I accept my crime, I have to accept my new identity as a murderer' - doesnt want to
      - Knock within
      - 'Wake Duncan with thy knocking. I would thou couldst.'
        
        remorse