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This video is a line-by-line walkthrough guide for William Shakespeare’s Macbeth: Act 2, Scene 2.
I provide a close reading of the entire scene, including: — Detailed explication — Commentary — Literary analysis
All commentary is supplemented by in-text, line-by-line study notes designed to help students: — Prepare for GCSE, A-Level, IB, and AP evaluation — Prepare for general high school and college quizzes, exams, and essays — Generate ideas for analysis essays — Participate knowledgeably in class discussions Click here to download the annotated text of Macbeth: https://sites.google.com/view/shakespeare-walkthrough/home
This video discusses :
PLOT: — Lady Macbeth nervously waits for Macbeth to kill Duncan, says she couldn’t kill Duncan herself because he looked like her father — Macbeth emerges from Duncan’s chamber with bloody hands and bloody daggers, deeply regrets killing Duncan — Lady Macbeth calls Macbeth cowardly for his regrets, takes the daggers from Macbeth and puts them with the drugged guards — Knocking at the gate…
CHARACTER: — Lady Macbeth: lacks “manly” courage to kill Duncan = lack of self-knowledge; stronger presence of mind than Macbeth; — Macbeth: regretful, remorseful; alienated from self; understands he has murdered himself
THEME: — Alienation from self: horcruxes — Wasteland: social and psychological; the Great Chain of Being disrupted — Hubris summons Nemesis: knocking — Appearance vs reality
