| A | B |
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| The scene is set in the middle of the night | "The moon is down ....And she goes down at twelve " |
| Banquo has been having dangerous thoughts | "the cursed thoughts that nature gives way to in repose" |
| Banquo is better than Macbeth because he has fought with his evil houghts. | "Merciful powers restrain in me" |
| Duncan has been very pleased with the Macbeths | "This diamond he greets you wife withal" |
| Macbeth tries to deflect the compliment using false modesty | "Being unprepared, our will became the servant to defect" |
| Banquo is supicious and trise to get Macbeth to reveal his plans | "I dreamed last night of the three weird sisters, To you they have showed some truth" |
| Macbeth lies to Banquo to change the conversation, | "Ithink not of them" |
| Macbeth tries to make sure that Banquo is on his side. | "If you shall cleave to my consent, when tis It shall make honour for you" |
| Banquo keeps himself neutral which suggests he does supect Macbeth. | "I shall be counselled" |
| Macbeth is questioning whether he can actually see the dagger. | "I have thee not, yet I see thee still" |
| Macbeth feels the dagger is a figment of his stressed brain. | "a false creation proceeding from the heat-opressed brain" |
| The dagger persuades Macbeth that he is doing the right thing in killing Duncan | "And such an instrument I was to use" |
| Macbeth is more convinced that his eyes are playing tricks on him. | "Mine eyes are made the fools o'th'other senses" |
| Macbeth is very aware that what he is about to do goes against nature. | "Now o'er the one half-world nature seems dead" |
| Macbeth personifies murder to try and take away the idea that he is the murderer | "withered murder alarumed by his sentinel the wolf" |
| Macbeth does not want it to be known that he is the murderer. | "thou sure and firm-set earth, hear not my steps" |
| Macbeth is very firm with himself and tells himself to get on with the job. | "Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives" |
| Lady Macbeth is exhilarated by the thought of the murder. | "That which hath made them drunk, hath made me bold" |
| Lady Macbeth places no value on human life. | "I have drugged their possets That death and nature do contend about them" |
| Lady Macbeth is more concerned at being caught attempting to muder Duncan. | "th'attempt and not the deed confounds us" |
| Lady Macbeth would have killed Duncan if he hadn't looked like her father. | "Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done't" |
| Macbeth's inability to face up to what he has done is proved by his use of euphemism. | "I have done the deed" |
| Lady Macbeth is cross that Macbeth is feeling sorry for what he has done. | "A foolish thought, to say a sory sight" |
| Macbeth is worried that he heard voices in the next room. | "There's one did laugh in's sleep, and one cried, Murder" |
| Macbeth sees himself as an executioner rather than a muderer. | "these hangman's hands" |
| Macbeth is deeply troubled that he may not go to heaven | "I had most need of blessing and Amen stuck in my throat" |
| Lady Macbeth is the more practical of the two in this scene | "These deeds must not be thought After these ways; so it will make us mad" |
| Lady Macbeth is horrified that Macbeth has not followed their plan | "Why did you bring these daggers from the place?" |
| Macbeth is so affected by what he has done that he cannot go back to the room. | "I am afraid to think what I have done Look on't again, I dare not" |
| Lady Macbeth is furious with her husband's weakness. | "Infirm of purpose" |
| Lady Macbeth tries to persuade Macbeth that death is an image. | "tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil" |
| Lady Macbeth has no fears about making sure that the guards get blamed for the murder. | "I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal" |
| Macbeth's nerves are in shreds. | "How is't with me, when every noise appals me" |
| Macbeth feels he will never be free of what he has done | "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?" |
| Lady Macbeth stresses to her husband that she thinks he is a coward. | "but I shame to wear a heart so white" |
| Lady Macbeth feels it is easy to get rid of the evidence. | "A little water clears us of this deed." |
| Lady Macbeth makes sure that the visitors don't realise that the Macbeths have been up. | "Get on your night-gown" |
| Macbeth is thinking that he'd rather not know what he has been capable of. | "To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself" |
| Macbeth is perhaps regretting what he has done. | "Wake Duncan with thy knocking: I would thou couldst. |
