LA2 Handout #1 3/31

Part I:

1. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are in love. Close to the end of Act I Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to go through with the murder of Duncan 

2.  Macbeth ultimately decides to go through with the murder because Lady Macbeth told him to. She called him a coward if he didn't kill Duncan. 

3. This far in the story Macbeth seems like a good person, and society enjoyed him. But his wife can show the ugly side of him when she tells him to kill Duncan.

4. Macbeth will get away with the murder of Duncan because no one will think it was him due to his loyalty to him. Also Lady Macbeth left bloody daggers with the security.

5. Macbeth should not kill him unless his reason was fitting. Like if he was a bad king and didn't help the people and Macbeth wanted to take control and help the people. He shouldn't kill him just because his wife told him to for power. 

Part II:

1. “We will speak further about it. Just look innocent a troubled face is always dangerous. Leave all the rest to me.” Page 31

“I beg you, be quiet! I dare do all that is fitting for a man to do; anyone who dares do more is not a man.” Page 37

2.  "When Duncan is asleep ---- which his hard day's journey will strongly invite him to ---- I will so overpower his two servants with wine and drunken toasts that memory, which should guard the brain, will become merely a wisp of smoke, and the vessel of reason (the brain) will only be an empty container. Asleep like swine, their alcohol-drowned senses numb as if in death ---- what can't we two do then to the unguarded Duncan? What blame can't we attach to his drunken servants, who will be held guilty of our great murder?" Page 39

"What monster was it then that made you share this scheme with me? When you dared to do it, then you were a man." Page 57

3.  "I'm settled on it then. All my faculties shall be devoted to this terrible deed. Let's go and pass the time as perfect hosts. We must conceal our false hearts behind false faces." Page 61

"We teach the art of bloodshed, then become the victims of our own lessons. This evenhanded justice makes us swallow our own poison." Page 55

4. "We will speak further about it. Just look innocent - a troubled face is always dangerous. Leave all the rest to me." Page 31

"Welcome him with your eye, your handshake, your conversation. Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent hidden underneath it. For Duncan's coming, preparations must be made, and you must put this night's important business under my direction.” Page 31