1. MACBETH
My dearest love,*This marks the beginning of the planning of the death of Duncan
Duncan comes here to-night.
* In this context night is used as a word of plan and mischevious, this builds up the suspense as to what is going to happen later in the night. As the reader we know what is going to happen but in the play others are not sure as to what is going to happen and that now there is going to be a death, but no one will suspect them.
2. LADY MACBETH
O, never*Lady Macbeth is assuring Macbeth of his innocence and how he has done no wrong that everything will be okay. The killing is almost made to be a scene of deed that what has happened was meant to and that there is no wrong and that everything will be okay.
Shall sun that morrow see!
Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under't. He that's coming
Must be provided for: and you shall put
This night's great business into my dispatch;
Which shall to all our nights and days to come
Give solely sovereign sway and ma
*In this context night seems to be a plan, almost as a code word that is secretly known to be the planning of Duncas death.
That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold;*Lady Macbeth is talking about how she had gotten the guards drunk and because they did fall into the trap it is not her fault that they will be killed for the death of Duncan. Lady Macbeth is trying to make light of the situation and trying to convine Duncan that it was deserved upon them. If they are so uncaring to get drunk and not care then they shall be killed for what they have done and being irresponsible
What hath quench'd them hath given me fire.
Hark! Peace!
It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman,
Which gives the stern'st good-night. He is about it:
The doors are open; and the surfeited grooms
Do mock their charge with snores: I have drugg'd
their possets,
That death and nature do contend about them,
Whether they live or die.
*This context is used in a way that puts an end to the worry of the killing. Lady Macbeth tries to pretend that it had never happened an that the deed has been done.
4. LENNOX
The night has been unruly: where we lay,*Lennox talks to Macbeth about the death of Duncan, while Duncan thinks to himself that he himself has killed Duncan not the guards. Macbeth knows the truth but Lennox is in panic and shock about what has happened to Duncan.
Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,
Lamentings heard i' the air; strange screams of death,
And prophesying with accents terrible
Of dire combustion and confused events
New hatch'd to the woeful time: the obscure bird
Clamour'd the livelong night: some say, the earth
Was feverous and did shake.
*The context of this night is almost sneaky, Lennox if suspicious and is looking for answers and believes that Macbeth may have something to do ith it. The night is used in a curious kind of way, showing Macbeth that he is on to him.
