Macbeth SECOND YEAR What to Focus on Act

Macbeth SECOND YEAR

What to Focus on: Act II �Act II contains the rising action of the play. It shows Macbeth’s internal struggle and the play’s main conflict between Macbeth and Macduff. Macbeth needs to be coerced into killing Duncan by his wife and then is sickened by the blood on his hands. The character of Macbeth changes allowing him to take pleasure in plotting Banquo's death and then the killings of Lady Macduff and her children.

�In scene 1 of Act II, Macbeth sees a vision of a floating dagger covered in blood (by the way, if you’re seeing visions of floating daggers covered in blood, your life probably hasn’t turned out like you wanted). In scene 2, after murdering the king, Macbeth fails to follow through and place the daggers to frame the servants. These two incidents demonstrate Macbeth’s uncertainty. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine Making the green one red. (2. 2. 64 -67)

�With this statement Macbeth makes, is the beginning of his downfall? �Does Macbeth finally realize what he has done that he can never forget the murder of Duncan. Will his conscience ever be the same?

Q: Macbeth’s vision of bloody daggers and uncertainty are examples of what? �A. internal conflict �B. external conflict �C. person v. nature conflict �D. individual v. society conflict One of the play’s main conflicts between Macbeth and Macduff is also revealed in Act II.

Q: Macduff suspects foul play on behalf of Macbeth. This is an example of what type of conflict? �A. person v. person �B. person v. nature �C. person v. self �D. person v. supernatural

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