ELA 20-1 (AT-MB)

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Macbeth - Reading and Study Guide Questions

 

ACT II

 

Scene 1

 

1. What is part of the largess that is for Lady Macbeth?

2. What does Banquo dream of?

3. What does Macbeth say in response to Banquo’s dream?

4. Macbeth tells Banquo that if he sticks (“cleave”) with him, he will give him honor. Banquo responds, “So I lose none / In seeking to augment it.” What does Banquo mean?

5. What “fatal vision” does Macbeth have?

6. Where is Macbeth going at the end of his soliloquy at the end of Act II, Scene 1?

Scene 2

 

7. What reason does Lady Macbeth give for not killing Duncan herself?

8. What has Macbeth forgotten?

9. What reason does Macbeth give for not returning to Duncan’s bedchamber?

Scene 3

 

10. Who is knocking at the door?

11.What does the porter say that alcohol does?

12. What does Macduff say the king commanded him to do?

13. What does Lennox say about the evening?

14. Macduff uses the metaphor of a Gorgon. What is the tenor of this metaphor? What is Macduff comparing to a Gorgon?

15. What is Macduff’sresponse to Lady Macbeth when she asks what has happened?

16. What does Macbeth say he has done in response to the murder?

17. Macbeth says, “Th’ expedition of my violent love / Outran the pauser, reason.” What does he mean and why does he say this?

18. What does Lady Macbeth do at this moment of commotion?

19. What does Banquo say he will fight against?

20. Where do Donalbain and Malcolm decide to go?

Scene 4

 

21. The Old Man says, “Tis said they eat each other.” What is he talking about?

22. What is thought about Donalbain and Malcolm because they left Scotland?

23. Where has Macbeth gone and why has he gone there?