Macbeth - Study Notes - Act II

1.Who accompanies Banquo at the opening of Act 2? What is his relation to Banquo?
Fleance is the one who accompanies Banquo. He is his son.
2.What is Macbeth's hallucination before he murders Duncan? What does this mean?
Macbeth's hallucination is a dagger which he wants to grasp but of course he can't, and he realizes that he is seeing the dagger that he plans to use in the murder, a dagger which beckons him toward King Duncan's door, and a dagger upon which appear thick drops of blood. He understands that "It is the bloody business which informs / Thus to mine eyes" (2.1.48-49), but he…