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Scene 2 starts off with the first soliloquy of the scene in which Lady Macbeth is talking. She is waiting for the return of her husband and she is obviously very nervous as she says: “Hark! Peace!” which we later find out is caused by an owl sound that she hears – She is obviously very nervous as she is startled by this sound. This helps to contribute to the tension in the scene, as the audience does not know yet what her conscience is really like. When she hears a second sound, which is really Macbeth talking offstage (but she doesn’t know that), she starts to wonder if Macbeth had the courage to actually commit the murder – When she says: “Th’ attempt and not the deed confounds us,” it seems as though she has no confidence in Macbeth. This feeling of Lady Macbeth helps to build up the tension in the scene, for example whether Macbeth has been successful or not. Lady Macbeth is shown as being nervous again when she says: “Hark”. This time, she does not know what has startled her. Straight after, she says: “I laid their daggers ready, he could not miss ’em”, which is again showing her lack of confidence in Macbeth but also that if the murder has gone wrong, she seems to be exonerating herself from the blame. The final sentence of her soliloquy: “Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t,” is an indication that Lady Macbeth does have a conscience after all and also repeats the fact that she has no trust in Macbeth. When Macbeth enters after he has committed the murder, his first words are: “I have done the deed”. These are five monosyllables which create no sense of victory or enthusiasm from Macbeth. He changes the subject slightly in his next line, which shows that his nerves are on edge as well and it seems like he does not want to talk about the murder. The next couple of lines are a rapid exchange of words between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth (a sticomythia) to demonstrate how nervous and tense they both are. When Macbeth says: “this is a sorry sight,” he is in a disturbed state of mind as he has only just seen the blood on his hands and is appalled by it. This shows Macbeth’s conscience at work. So far in the scene, we are not sure that there are any differences in character between Macbeth and his wife as both of their consciences have shown up during the scene, however Lady Macbeth does seem a little more enthusiastic than Macbeth.
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