Duncan reminds her of her father. Which is ironic because before she had said she would smash her own baby's head on a wall but she wouldn't kill someone that reminds of her father. Ah, but saying you would do a thing and actually doing it are two quite different propositions.
Where is Macbeth going when he sees the bloody dagger?
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Macbeth is dazed and confused after committing the murder. Lady M has to take the daggers back into the bedroom and smear the sleeping grooms with blood herself. She then pushes Macbeth toward their room so he can get into his nightie and look like he was sleeping when the murder happened.
I am guessing that the interchange is that one in 2,2 as follows: Lady M: Did you not speak? Macbeth: When? Lady M: Now. Macbeth: As I descended? Lady M: Ay. Macbeth Hark! Who lies in the second chamber? Lady M: Donalbain. Macbeth: This is a sorry sight. The conversation is usually performed very rapidly with the words almost tumbling over each other. The characters are trying to answer each other but Macbeth is distracted by his own thoughts. Lady M has heard a voice, and wants to find out about it, but she never gets an answer. Macbeth asks who is sleeping in Room 210, but when he gets his answer he does not explain why he asked it but goes on to talk about his bloody hands. They are nervous, their thoughts (and we assume their hearts) are racing to the extent that they are incoherent. Their nervous tension gets communicated to the audience.
Well, it is Lady Macbeth's plan really, although Macbeth was tempted by a similar idea. The idea was to kill the king and put the blame on his servants. Macbeth is Duncan's cousin, and so might succeed to the throne.
Lady Macbeth enters the King's room to plant the daggers on the guards after she has drugged them. This is part of the plan she and Macbeth devised to frame the guards for the murder of King Duncan.
Lady Macbeth takes the bloody dagger back to Duncan's room in order to frame the King's guards for his murder.
Lady Macbeth gives a signal to Macbeth to come and do the murder by ringing a bell. "The bell invites me", he says.
Where is Macbeth going when he sees the bloody dagger?
lady macbeth
Macbeth is dazed and confused after committing the murder. Lady M has to take the daggers back into the bedroom and smear the sleeping grooms with blood herself. She then pushes Macbeth toward their room so he can get into his nightie and look like he was sleeping when the murder happened.
I am guessing that the interchange is that one in 2,2 as follows: Lady M: Did you not speak? Macbeth: When? Lady M: Now. Macbeth: As I descended? Lady M: Ay. Macbeth Hark! Who lies in the second chamber? Lady M: Donalbain. Macbeth: This is a sorry sight. The conversation is usually performed very rapidly with the words almost tumbling over each other. The characters are trying to answer each other but Macbeth is distracted by his own thoughts. Lady M has heard a voice, and wants to find out about it, but she never gets an answer. Macbeth asks who is sleeping in Room 210, but when he gets his answer he does not explain why he asked it but goes on to talk about his bloody hands. They are nervous, their thoughts (and we assume their hearts) are racing to the extent that they are incoherent. Their nervous tension gets communicated to the audience.
Well, it is Lady Macbeth's plan really, although Macbeth was tempted by a similar idea. The idea was to kill the king and put the blame on his servants. Macbeth is Duncan's cousin, and so might succeed to the throne.
Lady Macbeth confesses to her guilt-ridden conscience while talking in her sleep, revealing the murders she and Macbeth have committed. Her words indicate a deep sense of remorse and paranoia, reflecting the psychological toll of their actions.
Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057] and his Lady [b. c. 1015] planned to blame the two royal guards for the untimely death of King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040] of Scotland. Lady Macbeth was supposed to serve the guards drugged drinks, to keep them from protecting their sovereign. Macbeth was supposed to kill the sleeping, unarmed King and then the passed out, defenseless guards. The bloodied murder weapons were supposed to be left at the crime scene with the bloodied corpses. The crime scene was supposed to tell a tale of a king killed by his drunken guards and avenged by his outraged host. And that was what happened and how the royal guest chamber was made to look, in Act 2 Scene 2 of the Shakespearean play.
"The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures" implies that they cannot fight back. Macbeth refuses to go back to the room where the murdered Duncan lies, and Lady Macbeth is telling him in her usual contemptuous way that he has nothing to be afraid of.
He carries the daggers he has used away from Duncan's room. His wife wants him to return and plant them on the grooms, but Macbeth refuses.