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Act 2 - Coggle Diagram
Act 2
Scene 3 Quotes and Explanations
"But this place is too cold for hell? I'll devil-porter it no further"
The porter regards Dunsinane castle as hellish and how he is the devil gatekeeper, this links to the acts which have just been committed by MacBeth and how the light of God (Duncan) has left the building and the devil (MacBeth) is reigning over.
"The night has been unruly where we lay...Lamenting of the air, screams of death"
It is also shown that there is an unbalance in the weather (pathetic fallacy*) linking to the disruption to the natural order for which MacBeth has just caused.
line 61 is the volta where the murder is released and MacBeth progressively turns from noble to suspicious tyrant
Scene 1 Quotes and Explanations
"Is this a dagger I see before me"
MacBeth is being represented as hallucinating since he has been manipulated by lady MacBeth and the Witches in order to go through with Duncan's regicide, this is also likely to please the Jacobean audience since they would want to see a treasonest killer's downfall
Hear it not, for it is a knell. That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
MacBeth is shown to speak in rhyme just before the murder to personify the witches influence within his acts and the play, the ending on the noun hell also shows how MacBeth has accepted his fate whilst going through with the act.
Scene 2 Quotes and Explanations
"I had most need of blessing, and Amen; stuck in my throat"
Since MacBeth has now gone against God he feels isolated and needy from committing an act against nature, also his morality somewhat displays since he feels unable to even use Gods name for shame to himself
"Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures"
Lady MacBeth is further shown to be dominion over MacBeth by taking control of the murder, she herself is also portrayed to have low levels of morality by showing death as a euphemism, dehumanising the unnatural act of regicide
Scene 4 Quotes and Explanations
"Turned wild nature, broke their stalls, flung out, contending against obedience as they would make war with mankind."
This represents how MacBeth has made a war against the fabric of nature by upsetting the prestanding natural order.
This could also suggest that in MacBeth killing Duncan he has both made war with the natural order but also Mankind by disrupting society and life,
The kings horses cannibalise each other suggesting how the natural order has been disrupted.