Month: November 2015

In the text Macbeth Shakespeare shows what happens to someone when they take advantage of the people that trust you. However the implicit meaning of the play is what happens to you when you treason against the King, Shakespeare had written this play a year later after Guy Fawkes had tried to blow up Houses of Parliament and the King. In this essay I will be exploring the history, the meaning of the play and the language in futher detail.

The history of this play was written to warn people waht happens to you when you treason against the King. The story behind this play starts in 1605 when Guy Fawkes and his Catholic group plot to blow up Houses of Parliament. They rented a basement underneath Houses of Parliament where they stored gunpowder to ‘blow’ up Houses of Parliament

The scene starts with some rally loud knocking that wakes up the Porter of the castle angrily. After the death of King Duncan Shakespeare was to inflict some comedy for the play to not be dark. The Porter talks about lerchy, which means the excessive indulgence of sexual desire, to inflict some comedy to the play to cheer up the audience as a very spine-chilling death has just happened. As the Porter had waken up angrily he starts to call who ever is behind the door devil names for example Beelzebub, this shows that the Porter does not like to work in the castle because he barely gets any sleep so that shows that he likes to get all the  sleep he can get even if it is just a bit. Macbeth enters the scene trying to act as normal as he can. After Macduff had asked if the knocking had woken up the King,he goes and checks on the King and come back terrified as he had just found the bloody body of Duncan. Macbeth acts normal and externally tries to show that he is sorry so that people will not suspect anything” Had I died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time” Macbeth says this in the external way that means that he wished he had died an hour before he ‘found out’ the death of Duncan as he did not want to experience this. Also Macbeth means this implicitly because he feels guilty of the death of Duncan, he wishes he had died an hour before he murdered him. At the end of the scene Macbeth tells everyone  how he had’ killed’ the guards because of his fury; furthermore after Macbeth leaves Malcom and Donaldbain discuss where they will flee.

Is Lady Macbeth only with Macbeth for interest as he is the Thane of Glamis?

The scene starts with Lady Macbeth entering the chamber, she had just drugged the guards and feels extremely powerful. Consequently, Macbeth entres with two bloody daggers as he has just killed Duncan.” I will go no more, I am afraid to think  what I have done” This shows that Macbeth feels guilty because Lady Macbeth had told him to clean up the crime scene but Macbeth feels really guilty, this shows that Macbeth feels guilty as he has already killed Duncan he can not stand seeing him anymore. In my opinion I think it’s  because he was kind of forced to by Macbeth by saying that he is not the man that he should be.