Conclusions
This quote is talking about skipping over time, which means that Macbeth is beginning to lose his ability to reason. He is talking about how he would never face his afterlife, which is irrational because the afterlife is a reward or a punishment that nobody can escape.
Were you drunk when you agreed to kill Duncan? Are you suddenly waking up and realizing what you happily promised then?
Conclusions
Lady Macbeth is saying that from this time forward, their love for each other is finite because she says “From this time such I account thy love”, which means that she is counting his love for her. By counting his love, Lady Macbeth is making the love …show more content…
This was said by an irrational man, so this is actually an example of the opposite: time just takes the blame for the deed when Macbeth is the only one at fault. Also time and horror are coming together. Macbeth says “horror from the time, \ which now suits with it” meaning that time is suiting to become horror, but the two are still separate. This shows how twisted Macbeth has become that he blames God and fate for his evil. He doesn’t seem to realize that he is the evil in this …show more content…
During this act, Macbeth’s use of time mostly has to do with how he would like to hide from time. This is probably because he has just killed Duncan and so no he’s stuck: he can’t die or else he’ll face the afterlife, but he can’t live because he is so afraid of life. Other characters treat time as if it has been ruined. Macbeth is the only character who doesn’t seem to see how time is coming to a halt. All of the characters see Duncan’s death as evil, but Macbeth sees the evil mostly in how it reflects on himself, not in how it’s reflected on Scotland as a whole. Overall, time affects Act II because it shows how God loses control of Scotland when time slips