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Macbeth, Act 2, Quotations

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Macbeth: "This is a sorry sight." Lady M: "?????". II ii

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Macbeth: "This is a sorry sight." Lady M: "?????". II ii

Lady M: " A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight". II.ii
Her futile attempts to try to make him stop 'thinking': they are steadily drifting apart.

Macbeth: "Now o'er the one half-world / Nature seems dead, ????.." II ii

"Now o'er the one half-world / Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse / the curtained sleep..." II.i
Macbeth has murdered sleep: no sleep is undisturbed now (look ahead to the sleepwalking scene).

Macbeth: "Whiles I threat, he lives: / blank."

"Whiles I threat, he lives: / Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives." II.i

Macbeth: "Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell / ?????." II i

"Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell / That summons thee to heaven or to hell." II.i
His 'concern' for the man he is about to murder.

Lady Macbeth: "I laid their daggers ready; / He could not miss 'em. ?????..." II ii

"I laid their daggers ready; / He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled / My father as he slept, I had done't... II.ii
Lady Macbeth's 'softness' at not killing Duncan. She is not a 'simple' killer.