Macbeth Comic Act 2
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- Macbeth Sees a Bloody Dagger As He Goes to Kill Duncan
- Insert Bloody Dagger
- Macbeth Sees It as a Sign and Kills Duncan
- Macbeth Immediately Feels Guilty
- "Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. . . Whiles I threat, he lives. Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives." (II.i.33-34,60-61)
- Macduff Finds Duncan's Body and Alerts the Whole Castle
- "There's no such thing. It is the bloody business which informs thus to mine eyes. . . I go, and it is done. . . Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell." (II.i.47-49,61,62-63)
- Malcolm and Donalbain Run Away in Fear of Their Lives, Making Them Suspects
- "One cried, 'God bless us!' and 'Amen' the other, as they had seen me with these hangman's hands. List'ning their fear I could not say 'Amen,' when they did say 'God bless us!'" (II.ii.24-27)
- Macbeth Is Crowned King
- "There's nothing serious in mortality. All is but toys. Renown and grave is dead. The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees is left this vault to brag of." (II.iii.88-91)
- "[Malcolm:] What will you do? Let's not consort with them. To show an unfelt sorrow is an office which the false man does easy. [Donalbain:] To Ireland, I. . . The near in blood, the nearer bloody." (II.iii.131-134,136-137)
- "[Ross:] Then 'tis most like the sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth. [Macduff:] He is already named and gone to Scone to be invested." (II.iv.30-32)
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