I would, while it was smiling in my face have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed his brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this" (lines 54-59), which questions whether or not Lady Macbeth and Macbeth ever had children or can have children. Lady Macbeth succeeds in convincing Macbeth to carry through with the plan and Macbeth states his only fear, if he should fail. Macbeth also makes a reference to children by telling Lady Macbeth to bring forth only male children because she is too evil to bring forth girls, which even further questions Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's ability to have children.
             This scene begins with a dialogue between Macbeth and Banquo in which the Three Witches are brought up again. Macbeth replies to Banquo's question of the witches with a lie and tells him that he has not thought again of the witches. Here it is defined that Banquo will not be tempted into the betrayal of Duncan. After the dialogue, Macbeth hallucinates alone a
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