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Macbeth Act 2 Scene 2 "SLEEP" - Coggle Diagram
Macbeth Act 2 Scene 2 "SLEEP"
Banquo
"A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, / And yet I would not sleep..."
Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 1. Banquo is exhausted, but he's worrying that when he goes to bed, he'll only be able to think about what's on his mind—the witches, and their prophecy. Banquo seems suspicious that something bad is about to happen which foreshadows King Duncan's murder.
Metaphor of "candles" for the stars.
Simile to compare sleep to a heavy lead summonsing him, a sleep that eludes him because of "cursed thoughts".
Lady Macbeth
"What's the business, / That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley / The sleepers of the house?"
"You lack the season of all natures, sleep."
Macbeth, Act 3, Scene 4.
Macbeth hallucinates the ghost of Banquo at his banquet, Lady Macbeth attributes his behaviour to the lack of sleep.
Double irony in the quote, as the audience knows that Macbeth will never sleep properly again since the evil deed, but also later in the play it is actually also Lady Macbeth who experiences sleep problems, she begins to sleep walk and talks in her sleep, experiencing the fear of the dark.
Macbeth
"Now o'er the one half-world / Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse / The curtain'd sleep."
Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 1. Personification is used four times in this passage from Macbeth's soliloquy, as he prepares to kill King Duncan. Sets the tone for the evil act he is about to commit.
Methought I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep!"
Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 2. After murdering Duncan, a troubled Macbeth begins to hear voices in his head, imagining one speaking to him about his evil action of mudering the King while in his sleep.
Sleep is personified as a knitter of "sleave of care", that soothes our hurt minds and is the most nourishing thing in life.
"Eat our meal in fear and sleep / In the affliction of these terrible dreams."
"Better to be dead than on the torture of the mind to lie / In restless ecstasy."
"Before black Hecate's summons / The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums..."
"That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies / And sleep in spite of thunder."
Macduff
"Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, / And look on death itself!"
Doctor
"A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep, and do the effects of watching!"
"Not so sick, my lord, / As she is troubled with thick coming fancies..."
Witches
"Sleep shall neither night nor day Hang upon his pent-house lid."
Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 3.
Witches plans a revenge curse for a sailor whose wife has offended her by refusing to share her chestnuts with her. Later in the play Macbeth and his wife suffer troubled sleep and nightmares and this foreshadows that.