Macbeth
By
Dr. Bigs and Crew’s A+ productions
Act
2: Scene 2
2.
Set Design
5.
Character Reports – Jibri McLean
(Macbeth)
6.
Character Reports – Nick Fertitta(Lady
Macbeth)
7.
Photographs of Key Moments in
Tableaux
9.
Vocabulary
In
act 2, Scene 2 of Macbeth Nick
Fertitta plays the role of Lady Macbeth, and Jibri McLean plays the role of
Macbeth. In this scene, Macbeth has just
finished killing King Duncan, and he is fearful and paranoid from his
actions. He is afraid if they will get
caught for their crimes and is shocked and anxious from his murder. This is the beginning of a murderous spiral
that will ruin their lives in order to become king and queen.
1.
What happens in your scene? Outline the basic events.
a. Macbeth tells lady Macbeth that
he has killed King Duncan
b. Both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are
paranoid and scared because of what might happen to them
c. They are trying to figure out
what they are going to do with the dagger that they killed King Duncan.
2. What do you think are the key purposes of your scene?
a. The key purpose of our scene is to show the significance of how the death of King Duncan affected Macbeth and his wife.
b. Macbeth especially was shocked and effected by his murder, and this scene shows how paranoid he has become because of the death.
c.
In addition, it foreshadows and shows motifs of what
will happen further in the book.
3.
How does this scene fit into Shakespeare’s overall purpose in the play?
This scene fits into Shakespeare’s overall purpose in the play because it foreshadows what will happen further along in the book, and also shows motifs. This scene is very significant to the play because it is the first murder that the Macbeths have committed and it is the start of how their murderous actions unravel their lives. This first murder starts the insanity and violence that take over Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. In this scene, Macbeth begins to realize the sin that he has committed and is in shame, fear and anguish.
4.
In a one paragraph essay with three quotations, defend your company’s choice of
production style. Be sure to analyze the significance of the quotations
in connection with the choices that you made.
The production style of
are act fit the play because we had in story details of when Macbeth
did the deed, and
Macbeth’s guilt towards his actions: and Lady Macbeth’s control of
Macbeth. Macbeth wants
power so he commits a horrible crime “I have done the deed.
Didst thou not hear a
noise” (pg. 27 Shakespeare). Macbeth killed King Duncan for a
better future, but he
fails to realize the consequences of his actions. Macbeth is to caring
and begins
to beg for forgiveness because of his actions “I gild no more. I am
afraid to
think what I have done”
(pg.29). Macbeth is sorry for his actions, but Lady Macbeth
manipulates him into believing
he did the right thing to assure success for them both. Lady
Macbeth is cunning and
greedy all she desires is power and she uses Macbeth to seek this
power “you do unbend
your noble strength to think so brainsickly of things. Go get some
water, and wash this
filthy witness from your hand” (pg. 29). Lady Macbeth is the brains
behind the two of them
she controls Macbeth to gain success. Are group incorporated these
three things because we
believe their most significant parts of the scene, and we think they
set the Tone of the act.
Also we think the three main parts would give the viewer an in-
depth look of the
characters personalities and traits.
Personal Prompt Page/Character
Page
Jibri McLean
1. What does your character want in
this scene?
In
this scene my character wants to become king along with his wife. He knows that in order to do so, he hast to
murder and kill others. However, after
killing king Duncan, my character, Macbeth, is paranoid and fearful of what he
has done. He doesn't want to face what
he has just done again.
2. What is your character’s motivation for doing what he or she does?
My
character's motivation is to become king along with his wife. He wants to become ruler of his land and
become very wealthy. His motivation is
his ego, what his wife wants, and to also thr desire to become wealthy and a
ruler.
3. What obstacles stand in his or her way?
The
obstacles that stand in Macbeth's way are the king and the others next in line
to become ruler. Also Macbeth and his
wife must make sure that no one suspects that they did all the killings or else
they will die and their plays will be ruined.
The obstacles are the king himself that they must kill, the people who suspect
them, and also they are their own obstacles.
Both must get past their thoughts that hold them back from what they
want.
4. What happens when your character confronts these obstacles?
My
character becomes very paranoid when facing his first obstacle, which is
killing the king. Macbeth realizes the
wrong that he has done and it is hard for him to face it again. He thinks that people will find out and he
will be killed and punished for his actions.
He doesn't get caught until later after many deaths, but Macbeth digs a
deeper hole for himself as he kills and sins more and more.
5. Are there any distinctive elements in your character’s way of speaking? (Is
his or her language elaborate, plain, musical, or what?)
My character
doesn't really speak any different than most people in those times. He speaks with a lot of emotion, however, and
in this scene, one can especially see the emotions that he is feeling by the
words that he says.
6. What is your character thinking during the scene? (How does he or she react
to the other characters and events?)
My character is very
paranoid of the murder that he has just committed. After killing King Duncan, Macbeth is very
scared of who might find out. He is also
shocked of the dreadful sin he has done and he does not wan to think of it
again. Macbeth is thinking of what he
can do to make sure no one knows of what he and his wife are plotting, and also
he knows what he must do in order to get what he wants.
Personal Prompt Page/Character
Page
Nick Fertitta
1.)
What does the character
want in this scene?
My character Lady
Macbeth wants Macbeth to kill King Duncan, and she manipulates him into killing
the king. After Macbeth kills the king they are nervous because of the bad they
have comitted.
2.)
What is your character’s
motivation for doing what he or she does?
Lady Macbeth is driven
by power all of her motivations and goals are bad. Lady Macbeth use Macbeth to
get what she only desires which greed.
3.)
What obstacle stands in
his or her way?
The obstacle that stands
in Lady Macbeth’s way is she must convince Macbeth to kill the king, and she
must be able to cover the murder up.
4.)
What happens when your
character confronts these obstacles?
Lady Macbeth gets away
with the evil deed and has all the power she wants, but soon after the murder
karma comes back upon Lady Macbeth and Macbeth.
5.)
Are there any
distinctive elements in your character’s way of speaking?
Lady Macbeth is very demanding and persistent in convincing
Macbeth to kill the King. Lady Macbeth has a strong and controlling speaking
type.
6.)
What is your characters
thinking during the scene?
Lady Macbeth thinking is all for herself she does not worry about
the consequences and she is full of is greed selfishness.
Photographs of Key Moments in Tableaux
Lady Macbeth has made the servants
that were supposed to be protecting the king drunk. She realizes that her husband must have
killed King Duncan Lady Macbeth is concerned that the
plan to kill the king has failed.
She is talking to herself and trying to reassure herself that
nothing can possibly go wrong. Lady Macbeth is telling her husband
that she heard nothing. All she
heard was the creatures outside.
LADY MACBETH
That which hath
made them drunk hath made me bold.
What hath quenched
them hath given me fire.
Hark! Peace! It
was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman,
Which gives the
stern’st good-night. He is about it.
The doors are
open, and the surfeited grooms
Do mock their
charge with snores. I have drugged their possets,
That death and
nature do contend about them,
Whether they
live or die.
Macbeth heard his someone speak and
is now paranoid. He is worried if
anyone had seen him.
MACBETH
(within) Who’s
there? What, ho!
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LADY MACBETH
Alack, I am afraid
they have awaked,
And ’tis not
done. Th' attempt and not the deed
Confounds us.
Hark! I laid their daggers ready;
He could not
miss 'em. Had he not resembled
My father as he
slept, I had done ’t.
Enter MACBETH,
with bloody daggers
My
husband!
Macbeth is still paranoid. He is concerned and wants to make sure
that nobody heard.
MACBETH
I have done the
deed. Didst thou not hear a noise?
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LADY MACBETH
I heard the owl
scream and the crickets cry.
Did not you
speak?
Macbeth is curious to know when all
this occurred. He is making sure
that nothing went wrong.
MACBETH
When?
She is telling him that this just
recently happened. Lady Macbeth
heard nothing else.
LADY MACBETH
Now.
Macbeth is asking did all this
happen just as he came down.
MACBETH
As
I descended?
Lady Macbeth is letting him know
that what he said was true. Macbeth is scared because he hears
someone in the second chamber. He
wants to know if anyone is sleeping in there. Lady Macbeth is telling him who it
is. Macbeth is explaining to her what he
saw when he was in the King Duncan's room.
He is reviewing what happened step by step. Lady Macbeth tells her husband that
these two people are together. Macbeth is so shocked that he has to
tell her what happened. He is
venting the harsh deeds that he has done.
He can not settle himself down. Lady Macbeth is trying to calm her
husband down. She is advising him
not to have this issue take control of his mind or else he will go insane. Macbeth is freaked out of his
mind. He can not stop thinking about
what he has done. He is deeply
ashamed. Macbeth's wife is telling him that
if they keep worrying about it so much, then they will go mad. She is telling him to take his mind off
of the murder and relax. Macbeth is so anxious that he can
not keep his mind off of things, and he is now hearing voices which is odd. Lady Macbeth doesn't realize that he
has already started going crazy form the murder. The odd voice is proof that Macbeth is
starting to go insane.
LADY MACBETH
Ay.
MACBETH
Hark!
Who lies i' th' second chamber?
LADY MACBETH
Donalbain.
Macbeth is so distraught and ashamed
of what he has done. He realizes the
seriousness of the issue.
20 MACBETH
(looking at his
hands) This is a sorry sight.
Lady Macbeth tells her husband that
what he just said was dumb. However,
she doesn't realize the seriousness of the issue.
LADY MACBETH
A foolish
thought, to say a sorry sight.
25 MACBETH
There’s one did
laugh in ’s sleep, and one cried. “Murder!”
That they did
wake each other. I stood and heard them.
But they did
say their prayers, and addressed them
Again to sleep.
LADY MACBETH
There
are two lodged together.
MACBETH
One cried, “God
bless us!” and “Amen” the other,
As they had
seen me with these hangman’s hands.
List'ning their
fear I could not say “Amen,”
When they did
say “God bless us!”
30 LADY MACBETH
Consider it not
so deeply.
MACBETH
But wherefore
could not I pronounce “Amen”?
I had most need
of blessing, and “Amen”
Stuck in my
throat.
LADY MACBETH
These
deeds must not be thought
After these
ways. So, it will make us mad.
MACBETH
Methought I
heard a voice cry, “Sleep no more!
Macbeth does
murder sleep”—the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits
up the raveled sleave of care,
The death of
each day’s life, sore labor’s bath,
Balm of hurt
minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher
in life’s feast.
LADY MACBETH
What
do you mean?
MACBETH
Still it cried,
“Sleep no more!” to all the house.
“Glamis hath
murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor
Shall sleep no
more. Macbeth shall sleep no more.”
Lady Macbeth is telling her husband
to man up and stop acting like a coward.
Also, she tells him to take the daggers away and to wipe them on the
guards bodies. Macbeth is too ashamed and freaked
out of what he has done. The murder
has taken a toll on his life and he is traumatized. Lady Macbeth is angry at her
husband's cowardly words and feelings.
She decides that she will do what she told him to do herself. Every noise scares Macbeth,
especially knocking, because he is very paranoid. He is acting this way because the murder
he has committed has traumatized him. Lady Macbeth is so ashamed of her
husband. She is so upset with him,
but she still tries to calm him down and have him stop acting so weak at
heart. Macbeth wants to put this behind him
by sleeping and relaxing. He also
wishes that his murder be undone and King Duncan could just wake up
again. Macbeth wishes that none of
this had happened and that King Duncan could just awake from the knocking.
50 LADY MACBETH
Who was it that
thus cried? Why, worthy thane,
You do unbend
your noble strength to think
So brainsickly
of things. Go get some water,
And wash this
filthy witness from your hand.
Why did you
bring these daggers from the place?
They must lie
there. Go carry them and smear
The sleepy
grooms with blood.
MACBETH
I’ll
go no more:
I am afraid to
think what I have done;
Look on ’t
again I dare not.
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LADY MACBETH
Infirm
of purpose!
Give me the
daggers. The sleeping and the dead
Are but as
pictures. 'Tis the eye of childhood
That fears a
painted devil. If he do bleed,
I’ll gild the
faces of the grooms withal,
For it must
seem their guilt.
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MACBETH
Whence
is that knocking?
How is ’t with
me when every noise appals me?
What hands are
here? Ha! They pluck out mine eyes.
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.
Enter LADY
MACBETH
65 LADY MACBETH
My hands are of
your color, but I shame
To wear a heart
so white.
(Knock within)
I
hear a knocking
At the south
entry. Retire we to our chamber.
A little water
clears us of this deed.
How easy is it,
then! Your constancy
Hath left you
unattended.
(Knock within)
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Hark! More
knocking.
Get on your
nightgown, lest occasion call us
And show us to
be watchers. Be not lost
So poorly in
your thoughts.
MACBETH
To know my
deed, ’twere best not know myself.
(Knock within)
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Wake Duncan
with thy knocking. I would thou couldst.
bellman...good-night
- i.e., the owl's call, portending death, is like the town call to a condemned
man
possets -
(bedtime drinks)
nature -
natural vitality
confounds -
ruins
sorry -
miserable
hangman's -
executioner's (i.e., bloody)
knits up the
raveled sleave - straightens out the tangled skein
second course -
i.e., sleep (the less substantial first course is food)
unbend - relax
witness -
evidence
painted -
depicted
gild - paint
incarnadine -
redden
the green one
red - (perhaps "the green one" means "the ocean," but
perhaps "one" here means "totally," "uniformly")
your...unattended
- your firmness has deserted you
nightgown -
dressing-gown
watchers -
i.e., up late
poorly - weakly