May 25, 2022

Episode 2: CHAPTER 2

Banquo and Fleance leave, and suddenly, in the darkened hall, Macbeth has a vision of a dagger floating in the air before him, its handle pointing toward his hand and its tip aiming him toward Duncan. Macbeth tries to grasp the weapon and fails. He wonders whether what he sees is real or a “dagger of the mind, a false creation / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain” (2.1.38–39). Continuing to gaze upon the dagger, he thinks he sees blood on the blade, then abruptly decides that the vision is just a manifestation of his unease over killing Duncan. The night around him seems thick with horror and witchcraft, but Macbeth stiffens and resolves to do his bloody work. A bell tolls—Lady Macbeth’s signal that the chamberlains are asleep—and Macbeth strides toward Duncan’s chamber.

As Macbeth leaves the hall, Lady Macbeth enters, remarking on her boldness. She imagines that Macbeth is killing the king even as she speaks. Hearing Macbeth cry out, she worries that the chamberlains have awakened. She says that she cannot understand how Macbeth could fail—she had prepared the daggers for the chamberlains herself. She asserts that she would have killed the king herself then and there, “[h]ad he not resembled / [her] father as he slept” (2.2.12–13). Macbeth emerges, his hands covered in blood, and says that the deed is done. Badly shaken, he remarks that he heard the chamberlains awake and say their prayers before going back to sleep. When they said “amen,” he tried to say it with them but found that the word stuck in his throat. He adds that as he killed the king, he thought he heard a voice cry out: “Sleep no more, / Macbeth does murder sleep.

Lady Macbeth at first tries to steady her husband, but she becomes angry when she notices that he has forgotten to leave the daggers with the sleeping chamberlains so as to frame them for Duncan’s murder. He refuses to go back into the room, so she takes the daggers into the room herself, saying that she would be ashamed to be as cowardly as Macbeth. As she leaves, Macbeth hears a mysterious knocking. The portentous sound frightens him, and he asks desperately, “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?” (2.2.58–59). As Lady Macbeth reenters the hall, the knocking comes again, and then a third time. She leads her husband back to the bedchamber, where he can wash off the blood. “A little water clears us of this deed,” she tells him. “How easy it is then.

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00:00:00 - Banquas knowledge of the witches prophecy makes him both a potential ally and a potential treat to mage ploding.

00:00:09 - For now, Macbeth seems distructful of Banquo and pretends to have hardly thought of the witches, but Macbeth desires to discuss the prophecies at some future time, suggests that he may have some sort of conspirational plans in mind.

00:00:26 - The appearance of Flynn's Vanquish son serves as a reminder of the witch's prediction that

00:00:33 - Vanquish children will sit on the throne of Scotland.

00:00:38 - We realize that if Macbeth has set in the murder of Duncan, he will be driving to steal more violence before his crown is secure and Flynn's will be immediately a moral danger.

00:00:53 - We see the scenes leading up to the murder and the scenes immediately following it, but he did it himself that does not appear in one state.

00:01:02 - Tungka's beat chamber became a sort of heightened sanctum into with the character disappear and from with the emerge powerfully chained.

00:01:13 - His technique of not allowing us to see the actual murder which persists throughout

00:01:19 - Macbeth may have been borrowed from the classical Greek tragedies of Seizlut and Sophosil.

00:01:27 - In this place, Violent acts around bad arc heat offstage, made to seem more terrible by the power of suggestion.

00:01:36 - The fate on Lady Macbeth of her trip into Duncan's bedroom is particularly shrinking.

claims that she would have killed Duncan herself and said that he resumed her father's sleeping.

00:01:51 - This is the first time Lady Macbeth shows herself to be at all vulnerable. Her comparison of Duncan to her father suggests that despite her desire for power and her harsh

00:02:06 - Childish Segment of Macbeth, she sees her king as an authority figure when she must be loyal.

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