Macbeth Act 2 (scenes 1-4)

in the second Act of Macbeth, there was a lot of imagery of sleep and darkness and death. There wasn't really that much of sleep and planting though. In the first scene of the second act, Banquo is talking and says, " The King's a-bed: He hath been in unusual pleasure". (24) Banquo is basically saying that the king is sleeping, but he seems a little strange, and if I had put the rest of the quote he goes on to say that he's actin strange because he's giving gifts to the servants quarters. (Ex. sleeping and strangeness) Also in the first scene, there is a monologue by Macbeth, and he says, " Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Let me clutch thee". (25) Macbeth is looking at himself as a murderer, and he basically starts hallucinating because he knows he's going to commit a terrible crime. (Ex. disease/illness in the mind) Then in scene two, Lady Macbeth says, "Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done't". (27) Even though near the beginning of the book, sleep was deprived of a man as punishment from the witches, sleep actually saved Duncun for a time being before he had been killed because he looked like Lady Macbeth's own father as he slept. (Ex. Sleep) Also in the second scene, Lady Macbeth says to her husband, "These deeds must not be thought after these ways; so, it will make us mad". (28) The crime they committed could possibly foreshadow the insanity that will befall upon either Lady Macbeth or Macbeth because they aren't able to live with it. (Ex. Illness of the mind)