Macbeth LRJ #2

-Macbeth shows both positive and negative traits in Act 2. The positive include him being a good husband and listening to his wife, though his wife has a corrupt plan. He goes through with a crime that being only recently convinced of its potential success. Some of Macbeth's negative qualities are his vulnerability to temptation, he easily gives and us often mislead by false sources. Even though his strong will proves he is a determined man, his incentive is weakened after the guilt set in.
-Lady Macbeth positive traits include her strong and firm attitude that gives her authoritative power over people. Her negative side is shown through her manipulative schemes, after satisfied by the murder of Duncan, the crime takes a negative toll on her mental state.

	"Alack, I am afraid they have awaked, And 'tis not done. Th'attempt and not the deed confounds us." (2.2.10-13) This quote shows the frantic state she’s left in when she dreams Duncan is still being alive.

-I chose to fallow the image of sleep through act two because i find it significant that this section starts out with Banquo awoken from a dream about the witches then Macbeth has immediate a hallucinations about a dagger and the murder he is about to commit. “Or art though but A dagger of the mind, a false creation," (2.1.37-38) also throughout the play strange thing are shouted in the night like when Macbeth thinks he here’s someone after he murders Duncan say:

	"Still it cried, “Sleep no more!” to all the house.
	“Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor
	Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more.”" (2.2.43-46)