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Assesment of Macbeth! is

ACT II
The beginning of the scene is quite awkward as Banquo is having mixed thoughts. He doesn’t quite explain what but it seems that it deals with the three witches that have spoke to him and Macbeth about their prophecies. Banquo shares this information with Macbeth and Macbeth says they will talk at a later time. Banquo leaves the set as Macbeth in visions a dagger floating in front of him startling him and his mind. He thinks of the dagger as a “calling” to fulfill his and his wife’s plan to kill King Duncan. He decides to follow through with this plan as his wife lady Macbeth signals him its time to execute this treacherously greedy plan to rule the throne. Scene two Macbeth has already carried out the so call “deed” and has come back to talk to lady Macbeth. Only for her to notice that he has brought back the daggers that will implement him in the murder of Duncan. Macbeth then chickens out and tells her he cant to back to the scene of the crime because of the horrific act he has committed. Lady Macbeth calls him a chicken and tells him that he is no man and tells him she will do it herself. She goes back and rubs blood on the daggers and the guard’s bodies to implement them in the murder of Duncan. When she comes back and her and Macbeth wash the blood from there hands and Macbeth tells her to go get her robe so they do not look suspicious. As the next scene starts the knocking continues and at the main gate appears Macduff and Lennox. Macbeth comes to the door as Macduff asks him if the king is awake. Macbeth knowing he is dead tells him he is not and will gladly take him to the king. This is when Duncans murder is exposed to all in the house of Macbeth. When this is going on Macbeth decides to kill the guards and make up the excuse that he has done this because he was grieving over the fact that he was killed by the two guards. As this became questionable to the people at the scene Lady Macbeth decides to fake faint and draw the attention away form Macbeth. While this is happening Donalbain and his brother Malcolm plan to flee Scotland because they are afraid for their lives. This led to the belief that the two brothers were the ones to blame for their fathers murder and also led to the crowning of Macbeth. Macbeth succeeded in his plan to take the throne and his evil scheme has just begun.

Theme
Macbeth's soliloquy at the beginning of this act introduces an important theme of guilt made by hallucinations in his mind. The "dagger of the mind" that Macbeth sees is not "ghostly" or supernatural its more of his mind struggling to make a decision whether or not to kill king Duncan. It shows him the way by leading him toward the bloody deed he has resolved to commit, haunting and causing him to oversee his guilt. The same can be said for the ghostly voice that Macbeth hears after he kills Duncan. These illusions are more of the inner struggle that the characters are going through instead of just being illusions.

Literary Elements and Structure
•	 Monologue - an example is after Macbeth kills the two guards he gives a speech on why he killed Duncan, “ Who can be wise, amazed, temp’rate and furious,/ courage to make loves known” (2.3.106-116)

•	 Soliloquy - a great example of this is when Macbeth in visions the floating dagger. (2.1.34-64)

•	 Aside - Donalbain and Malcolm have an aside as they plan to leave the country after there father was murdered(2.3.117-125)

•	 Satire - Macbeth’s satire is also when he gives the speech on how he killed the guards not thinking and doing it out of uncontrollable anger for the love of Duncan which we know is not true. “ Who can be wise, amazed, temp’rate and furious,/ courage to make loves known” (2.3.106-116)

•	 Dramatic Irony - In act 2 scene 3, lines 41-43. Macduff asks Macbeth if the king is up and that he wishes to see him. Macbeth tells him he is still a sleep and that he will take him to the king right away. This is dramatic irony because Macduff doesn’t know that the king is dead but clearly the audience knows by now that he has been killed by Macbeth. Again dramatic irony is showed when Macbeth gives the speech that he killed the guards for his uncontrollable anger towards them for killing his good friend Duncan. The audience really knows that Macbeth killed him and killed the guards to hide the murder while the characters in the story don’t. (2.3.117-125)