Internal conflict

The beginning of Act II starts off with Macbeth and his coterie planning to assasinate Duncan and take over the throne. Macbeth, Banquo, and Lady Macbeth are all involved in the macabre plot. Their plan was for Lady Macbeth to hide two daggers where Macbeth could find them. Then Macbeth would stealthly sneak into the Kings bedroom and stab and kill him. Before the commencement of assasination, Macbeth's conscious kicks in and he starts to have second thoughts about killing Duncan. Macbeth says, "I have thee not and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight? Or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?" This quotation shows an internal conflict with Macbeth, in the sense that he is envisioning the murder, but he is starting to think that he is not being rational about the whole situation. After the murder, Macbeth starts to tell Lady Macbeth what happened. He tells her what each soldier said and he starts to become mystified about what they said and why they said it. Macbeth heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more! Macbeth has mudered sleep." Macbeth gets a little upset over this and Lady Macbeth calms him down by simply saying that he cannot let this get to his head. She thinks that he will become weak if he keeps having these thoughts. In the beginning of Act II  Macbeth saw the murder as 100% positive. Now as he looks back on it, he is getting scared and all negative thoughts are running through his head. It will be interesting to see if anyone snitches on Macbeth because as of now, no one except the people who were in on the plot know that Macbeth killed Duncan.