Act 2

Question 1

Macbeth imagines that there is a dagger floating in front of him

Answer 1

Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?

Question 2

Macbeth said he has murdered sleep, and is no longer innocent enough to deserve sleep

Answer 2

‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep’

Question 3

Hyperbole - Macbeth talking about the blood on his hands and washing it

Answer 3

Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?

Question 4

Macbeth wishes the knocking would wake Duncan up from the dead

Answer 4

Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!

Question 5

Metaphor - People are false, they are planning your murder while smiling at you

Answer 5

There’s dagger in men’s smiles;

Question 6

Vivid imagery - Unnatural things are happening, Duncan’s horses ate each other

Answer 6

Duncan’s horses

‘Tis said they are each other

Question 7

Macbeth is becoming manipulative himself - he starts lying to even his close friend Banquo

Answer 7

I think not of them