Macbeth Questions

3.a) In Act 2, Macbeth tries to gain Banquo's support by saying that Lady Macbeth and himself were unprepared for Duncan's visit, making them unable to amuse him as well as they would have liked. Macbeth was looking for Banquo's sympathy because he didn't believe that they did a good job hosting while Duncan was there and didn't deserve athe gifts that Duncan gave to Macbeth's family. Banquo reassured Macbeth that everything was okay.

3.b) Macbeth

• weak
• scared
• unable to follow orders properly (returns to Lady Macbeth with the daggers in his bloody hands)
• worried that people will find out so he starts freaking out

Lady Macbeth

• Acts like she wasn't involved
• tough
• doesn't care
• man- like
• believes everything will be okay

They were so different in their reaction because Macbeth was forced to do the murder after Duncan started being nice to him, just because he wanted to become King. Macbeth had more pressure on him because he was the one who had to commit the actual crime and is friends with Duncan's friends. Lady Macbeth was the brains behind it so she would not get in as much trouble if they got caught.

3.c) Duncan is the good King of Scotland. He is virtuous (having high standards). And a benevolent ruler (is somebody with a leadership that has a kind attitude and appears to involve people). He is involved with the thanes, such as when he goes to Macbeth's home for dinner and stays over. Duncan gives Macbeth's family gifts and is very kind and generous.

3.d) Lady Macbeth describes Macbeth  as the thane of Glamis and Cawdor. He will become king just like was promised. Lady Macbeth is unsure is Macbeth has what it takes to kill the king and get the crown. He isn't powerful but wants to be. He lacks ambition, but isn't mean enough to do this horrible crime, he is too kind. He wants to do everything like a good man with no cheating but he wants what doesn't belong to him. He is afraid to murder Duncan, so he wants it to be done for him.

4.a) I think what's motivating Macbeth the most is the fact that Duncan is the king and he believes if Macbeth was no longer alive he would take place as king. He wants to be king so bad that he will even kill the king and risk getting in trouble to get what he wants. Also he wants to be able to make his wife happy by following through with what she wants as well. "I am settled, and bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show. False face must hide what the false heart doth know." Lady Macbeth finally convinced Macbeth to do the plan again after he started backing out. He ordered her to return so it didn't seem like they were up to anything so they obeyed each others orders. It take all of him to do this crime so it shows that he really wants to be king

4.b)

• When the battle’s lost and won.
• Fair is foul and foul is fair 
• Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature give way to in response Point against point, rebellious arm 'gainst arm, curbing his lavish spirit; and to conclude, the victory fell on us.
• But in a sieve I’ll thither sail, and like a rat without a tail I’ll give you some wind to sail there.
• So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
• That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' Earth, and yet are on ’t?—Live you? Or are you aught that man may question? You seem to understand me, by each at once her choppy finger laying upon her skinny lips. You should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so.
• Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day. 
• Nothing is but what is not.
• Here’s a farmer that hanged himself on the expectation of plenty.
• Lechery, sir, it provokes and unprovokes
•  It makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to and not stand to