What do we learn from the discussion between Banquo and Fleance?
Question 2
2.
What does Banquo tell us that Duncan gave to Lady Macbeth?
Question 3
3.
What emotions does Macbeth display during the soliloquy that begins, “Is this a dagger which I see before me?”
Question 4
4.
How does Lady Macbeth get the plot started?
Question 5
5.
Why doesn’t Lady Macbeth simply kill Duncan while she is in the room?
Question 6
6.
After Macbeth kills Duncan, Lady Macbeth says, “These deeds must not be thought / After these ways; so, it will make us mad.” What does this suggest about the rest of the play?
Question 7
7.
What does Macbeth do wrong, and how does Lady Macbeth fix it?
Question 8
8.
What are they hurrying to do as the scene comes to an end?
Question 9
9.
How does Macbeth feel in the last lines?
Question 10
10.
Consider the relationship between Lady Macbeth and her husband Act II, Scene 2. What is different about their actions and about the way they react to events?