ACT+II+QUOTATIONS


 * Major Quotations from Macbeth Act II**

Macbeth //Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight? or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? I see thee yet, in form as palpable as this which now I draw. Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going; And such an instrument I was to use. (2.1.1) //

Ross //'Gainst nature still! Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up thine own life's means! Then 'tis most like. The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth. (2.4.6) //

Porter //[…] Knock, knock! Who's there, in the other devil's name? Faith, here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale; who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven: O, come in, equivocator. (2.3.1) //

Ross //Ah, good father, Thou seest, the heavens, as troubled with man's act, Threaten his bloody stage: by the clock, 'tis day, And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp: Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame, That darkness does the face of earth entomb, When living light should kiss it? Old Man 'Tis unnatural, Even like the deed that's done. (2.4.1) //

Macbeth //Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw. Thou marshal'st me the way that I was going, And such an instrument I was to use. Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest. (2.1.6) //

Macduff //Malcolm and Donalbain, the King's two sons, Are stol'n// //away and fled, which puts upon them Suspicion of the deed.//

Macbeth //O gentle lady, ' Tis not for you to hear what I can speak: The repetition in a woman's ear Would murder as it fell. (2.3.12) //



[] Jamey Doulin