Act 2 — Macbeth — AQA GCSE English Literature 8702
AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
Act 2
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
The dagger soliloquy, Duncan's murder, the Porter, the discovery and the flight of Malcolm and Donalbain.
Key quotations: 'Is this a dagger which I see before me', 'I go, and it is done', 'Macbeth does murder sleep', 'Infirm of purpose!', 'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?', 'A little water clears us of this deed', 'an equivocator', 'Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope / The Lord's anointed temple', 'There's daggers in men's smiles', 'Even like the deed that's done'.
Form: the dagger soliloquy, the short shared lines after the murder, and the Porter's prose.
