As Macbeth leaves the hall, Lady ____ enters, remarking on her boldness. She imagines that Macbeth is killing the king even as she speaks. Hearing Macbeth cry out, she worries that the chamberlains have awakened. She says that she cannot understand how Macbeth could fail—she had prepared the ____ for the chamberlains herself. She asserts that she would have killed the king herself then and there, “had he not resembled / her ____ as he slept”. Macbeth emerges, his hands covered in ____, and says that the deed is done. Badly shaken, he remarks that he heard the chamberlains awake and say their prayers before going back to sleep. When they said ____,” he tried to say it with them but found that the word stuck in his throat. He adds that as he ____ the king, he thought he heard a voice cry out: “Sleep no more, / Macbeth does murder ____ Lady ____ at first tries to steady her husband, but she becomes angry when she notices that he has forgotten to leave the ____ with the sleeping chamberlains so as to frame them for Duncan’s murder. He refuses to go back into the room, so she takes the daggers into the room herself, saying that she would be ashamed to be as ____ as Macbeth. As she leaves, Macbeth hears a mysterious ____. The sound frightens him, and he asks desperately, “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?” . As Lady Macbeth reenters the hall, the knocking comes again, and then a third time. She leads her ____ back to the bedchamber, where he can wash off the ____. “A little water clears us of this deed,” she tells him. “How ____ it is then!” .

Macbeth Act 2 Scene 2

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