Overview of Macbeth

Banquo and his son Fleance notch in the torch-lit hall of Macbeths castle. Fleance says that it is after midnight, and his father responds that although he is tired, he wishes to stay evoke because his sleep has lately inspired cursed intellections (2.1.8). Macbeth enters, and Banquo is surprised to wait him still up. Banquo says that the king is drowsy and mentions that he had a imagine about the three supernatural sisters. When Banquo suggests that the witches take up revealed some integrity to Macbeth, Macbeth claims that he has not thought of them at all since their coming upon in the woods (2.1.1920). He and Banquo agree to discuss the witches prophecies at a later time.\nBanquo and Fleance leave, and suddenly, in the darkened hall, Macbeth has a vision of a dagger floating in the air in the beginning him, its baseball mittle pointing toward his hand and its bullock aiming him toward Duncan. Macbeth tries to grasp the weapon and fails. He wonders whether what he se es is real or a dagger of the mind, a false creation / transactions from the heat-oppressed brain (2.1.3839). Continuing to survey upon the dagger, he thinks he sees agate line on the blade, then short decides that the vision is just a manifestation of his unease everywhere killing Duncan. The night nearly him seems thick with horror and witchcraft, still Macbeth stiffens and resolves to do his bloody work. A bell tolls-Lady Macbeths head that the chamberlains are asleep-and Macbeth strides toward Duncans chamber.\n\n sum-up: Act 2, scene 2\nWill all big(p) Neptunes ocean sponge this blood\nClean from my hand? No, this my hand will instead \nThe multitudinous seas incarnadine, \nMaking the car park one red. \n(See Important Quotations Explained)\n\nAs Macbeth leaves the hall, Lady Macbeth enters, remarking on her boldness. She imagines that Macbeth is killing the king even as she speaks. Hearing Macbeth cry out, she worries that the chamberlains have awakened. She says that she cannot understand how Ma...