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Read Macbeth Online

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128 Notes 

ACT II 
Scene I. 
2. Clock. Anachronism. 
5. That too. Meaning a dagger. 
19. Which. Antecedent? 

44. Either my eyes are open and my other senses are shut, 
or my other senses are keen and my eyes deceive me. 

49. Observe Macbeth's figurative language : it has seemed 
customary with him when thinking on the murder. 

55. Tarquin: i. e., the last of the first seven kings of 
Rome. 

61. Gives. Subject? 

63-4. Account for the rhyming couplet here. 

Scene II. The murder scene gains in the setting, i. e., the 
owl shrieks out the "sternest good-night" and the guards are 
drugged. One feels the helplessness of the unsuspecting 
Duncan in the hands of the skillful Lady Macbeth. 

16. Note the composure of Lady Macbeth. She is aware 
of sounds, and is cool in her discriminations, i. e., owls, crick- 
ets, etc. 

17. Did not you speak descended forms one verse. 

Scan it. 

22-25. "A large court surrounded all or in part by an 
open gallery, chambers opening into that gallery, the gallery 
ascended into by stairs, open likewise with the .addition of a 
college-like gateway, into which opens a porter's lodge, ap- 
pears to have been the poet's idea of the place of this great 
action." 

35-43. Macbeth's use of figurative language is noticeable 
here, while before he committed the crime, his speech was 
brief and direct. 

37. Ravell'd. Tangled. Sleave is a skein of silk. 

56. /'// gild, etc. : i. e., smear with. 

62. Multitudinous seas incarnadine. Account for the 
beauty of this verse. 

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