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Discuss a symbol that represents guilt (motif) and explain the connection between the symbol and guilt (the motif).

In Act 2, Scene 2, Macbeth hears the prayer from Malcolm and Donalbain's room, and believes that he should have replied in kind to their prayer of blessing. He recalls this event to Lady Macbeth "But wherefore could I not say 'Amen'?" (Act 2, Scene 2). The symbolism of the prayer and Macbeth's inability to say "Amen" characterizes his guilt. His halting of speech in prayer symbolizes his guilt as he knows he is guilty before God who has seen his murderous deed.

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Discuss a symbol that represents guilt (motif) and explain the connection between the symbol and guilt (the motif).

In Act 2, Scene 2, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are covered in blood. Macbeth says "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" (Shakespeare, Act 2, Scene 2). The symbolism is that Macbeth can't forget what he's done. This act has stained his mind like blood stains his hands.

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From the other characters’ perspectives, why does Lady Macbeth faint?

From our perspective, why does she faint?

The characters in the play had thought that she fainted because she couldn't handle that someone had died under her roof. When Macduff had told her Duncan was murdered she replied with "Woe, alas! What, in our house" (Shakespeare Act 2, Scene 3). She said this to make it sound like she was surprised it had ever happened, and that it should have never happened in her household. The audience knows that she had pretended to faint to act like it was a total surprise and was so sad, so no one would think she had anything to do with it.

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Discuss a symbol that represents guilt (motif) and explain the connection between the symbol and guilt (the motif).

In Act 2, Scene 2, Macbeth is covered in Duncan's blood. Macbeth says "That fears a fainted devil. If he do bleed, ill gild the faces of the grooms withal; For it must seen their guilt" (Shakespeare Act 2, Scene 2). This symbolizes that Macbeth felt guilty that he had to come these measures to be at the top. When he saw the blood on his hands he was completely shocked and surprised he had just killed someone with his bare hands.

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Identify the speaker of the following quote and explain what the quote reveals about the character:

“I laid their daggers ready;

He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled

My father as he slept, I had done it.”

Lady Macbeth said this and this quote reveals that she was prepared and ready to kill someone, unlike most people who wouldn't even think of doing it

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Discuss a symbol that represents guilt (motif) and explain the connection between the symbol and guilt (the motif).

"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand?"

Duncan's blood is symbolic of Macbeth's guilt; Macbeth uses a metaphor, or indirect comparison, to compare his guilt for killing Duncan to blood on his hands.

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Identify the speaker of the following quote and explain what the quote is about:

“One cried 'God bless us!' and 'Amen' the other; As they had seen me with these hangman's hands. Listening their fear, I could not say 'Amen,' When they did say 'God bless us!'”

This is spoken by Macbeth. He is saying that he feels unholy because of his recent actions. When he says "Listening their fear, I could not say 'Amen,' When they did say 'God Bless us!'" (Shakespeare, Act 2, Scene 2). He feels like he can't say godly words since he has done an ungodly action.

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Discuss a symbol that represents guilt (motif) and explain the connection between the symbol and guilt (the motif).

The dagger represents guilt because Macbeth is talking about how he couldn’t put back the daggers he killed King Duncan with because he couldn’t believe he actually killed someone of high importance. The daggers were the objects that were committing the crime so they represent the guilt Macbeth felt.  “Listening their fear, I could not say 'Amen,'”(Shakespeare 28).

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Identify the speaker of the following quote and explain why it is an example of dramatic irony:

“O gentle lady,

'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak:

The repetition, in a woman's ear,

Would murder as it fell.”

The speaker of this quote is Macduff. This is an example of dramatic irony because Lady Macbeth was the one who planned the murder. She is supposed to be a lady and not murder or plan to murder people. Macduff is scared that Lady Macbeth would faint if she knew that there was a murder but he didn’t know that she was the one who actually planned the whole scheme.

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Discuss a symbol that represents guilt (motif) and explain the connection between the symbol and guilt (the motif).

In the Macbeth story a motif about guilt can be seen whenever a dagger appears. This is related to the book because everytime there is a dagger it means to kill and it keeps re appearing in the book but not in a nice way. After Lennox find the guards he states, ".... faces badged with blood so were their daggers." Shakespeare (22)

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Identify the speaker of the following quote and explain what the quote reveals about the character:

“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.”

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Identify the speaker of the following quote and explain what the quote is about:

“Is this a dagger which I see before me,

The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?”

The speaker is Macbeth and the quote is about Macbeth seeing a dagger floating above Duncan's bedroom door it shows how Macbeth was second guessing himself but after seeing the dagger as a "sign" he followed through with the deed.

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1. Provide an example of dramatic irony

2. Explain what it is and give details

3. Explain its effect on the reader. How do we as a reader feel?  What aspects of literature does it help us to understand?  Plot, characterization, theme, mood, tone, motifs, etc.

In act two after Mcduff divovered that that king has been murdered and when he is informing people of this, because lady's are considered innocent, he tells her, “''Tis not for you to hear what I can speak:

The Repetition, in woman's ear,

Would murder as it fell.” However Mcduff doesn't know that Lady Mcbeth knows about and participated in the murder. It makes the readers feel like the Mcbeths will get away with the murder and the predictions look more likely, it also has a note of dark humor as lady Mcbeth is being spared from hearing about the murder she helped commit because she is considered “innocent”.

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He is regreting killing Duncan and is asking to gods to wash the blood from his hands and free him from sin.

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Discuss the symbol of guilt?

One symbol of guilt in Macbeth is blood. When Macbeth and lady Macbeth kill the people they have blood on their hands and lady Macbeth starts to see it on her hands.

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" (Act 2, Scene 2).

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"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood  Clean from my hand?" Regretting killing king Duncan, asking the gods to forgive him and wash the blood from his hands.

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After Mcbeth had killed king Duncan and both lady Mcbeth and Mcbeth are waiting in talking and waiting for the murder to be discovered Mcbeth says to lady Mcbeth “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”. The blood in the scene symbolizes Mcbeth’s guilt over the murder, and having somebody blood on your hands means that you are the one you are guilty. King Duncan was a good king that trusted Mcbeth is guilty for his murder, the blood on his hands shows that he feels guilty for his deed.