LRJ #2 for Macbeth Act 2.

Macbeth and his wife Lady Macbeth are different attributes,  Macbeth is the king he's strong but underneath he acts like a child. There are positive and negative attributes that he has, the positive is that when he sets his mind to it he will do it, and he has the prophecy in which he can believe in. He also has the ability to be a ruler and he is a great ruler. But he has more negative attributes than his good. When he murdered Duncan he didn't have a bad feeling, but until he came out with the daggers he started freaking out and trying to repent on his actions "Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red." (2.2.64-67), Macbeth has a great repent that he said that the blood that he has will never wash off not even in the great waters of Neptune, so he will have that on his conscious. Another bad attribute is that when he blacks out and just starts rambling he could reveal what he has done, with out knowing it "Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage make's love known?" (2.3.118-119) Macbeth could have easily  told everyone that he killed Duncan, so instead Lady Macbeth fainted to not let Macbeth continue with his preaching.  

Lady Macbeth also has positive and negative attributes, she is a beautiful person but then again she is a very determined lady who once she says something that is what she is going to do. The positives are that she can act very well in the time of need, like when she fainted to get the attention away from Macbeth. She also is a great wife to Macbeth, she wanted to comfort him when he was going crazy. The negatives. She could be more of a man than her husband, so the prophecy might change that she would be the queen, because she actually has the courage to go do what needs to be done, “My hands are of your color but I shame To wear a heart so white.” (2.2.68-69) she meant that she just committed the same crime that Macbeth did but she didn't hold herself against anything.

One image pattern that is used is the blood that is figured trough out the whole act, in which the killing of Duncan help explain, it is important because it shows how much in detail Shakespeare can get with his writing. “Go get some water And wash this fitly witness from you hand” (2.2.50-51) in this quote Lady Macbeth is telling Macbeth to wash the blood off his hands because it is a sigh that he murdered someone so it will expose him.

LRJ #1 on Act 1 of Macbeth.

Macbeth in act one is more like a calm person. But him and Banquo are like two partners who fight with on side of each other having there friends back in battle, “As cannons overcharged with double cracks, So they doubly redouble  stroke upon the foe” (1.2.36-38), it says that they were working together like cannons with two explosion shoot off, so they deliver twice the damage, so they are a team that the Captain shows to be fearful. Macbeth is more into the great thought that he is the one who will be king so he isn't skeptical about the witch encounter but Banquo is, ”Or have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?” (1.3.84-85). Banquo questions more than macbeth and ask if evil ca actually speak the truth. Lade Macbeth shows that she is a strong lady, she is so strong that she can be a man, “Come to m woman's breast and take my milk for gall.” (1.5.47-48) she means that let the spirits take her breast milk and take her woman body parts away from her to show that she is not weak female.

There are certain themes that are used in Act one of Macbeth. One is that Macbeth respects the Witches prophecy, even though he questioned what he will have to do in order to fulfill

 the prophecy, but even though he didn't think about it much until the decision to kill Duncan was made, Duncan trusteed Macbeth very much but even thought Trust is also a theme, it’s not a theme that is expressed in the most positive way, because Macbeth betrays the king and turns up to kill him. Macbeth is the right full person who should rule but only in the prophecy of the witches but either way he goes along with it.

“Till he unseamed him from nave to th’ chops, And fixed his head upon our battlements.” (1.2.21-22) this quote is striking because it shows the striking blow that Macbeth gave to his enemy, cutting him from the lower body parts all the way to his jaw, and then throwing his head into the battle field. It shows that Macbeth has no fear when he comes to fighting hand on hand combats.