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October 24, 2015 / / 3 Comments

Shakespeare date of birth was never known but we do know that he was baptised on the 26th  April 1564, was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. At the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway and had three children Susanna Hall and the twins Hamnet Shakespeare and Judith Quiney. Throughout the time that Queen Elizabeth I reigned  Shakespeare he wrote, A Midsummer’s Nights, which are often seen to embody the generally happy, confident and optimistic mood of the Elizabethans. On the other hand when James I came to the throne he wrote he wrote darker and more cynical plays, such as Macbeth and Hamlet reflecting the insecurities of the Jacobean period. Shakespeare wrote Macbeth a year after the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. Guy Fawkes and his men were the people responsible for this as they had tried to blow up Houses of Parliament with King James I and his MP’s inside. In total they had gotten 36 barrels inside a basement underneath the Houses of Parliament. Guy Fawkes and his men were arrested the day before they planned tried blow up the Houses of Parliament. They were horribly tortured on the rack until they confessed. They were executed were executed in the most brutal way back then as a warning to other would-be traitors. My research has helped me to understand why Shakespeare wrote Macbeth, which was to warn that if anyone betrayed a King the awful fate that will inevitably overtake them. Macbeth is set in Medieval Scotland, he is a really succesful soldier in King Duncan’s army. Until he is told that he would become king and that his best friend and his army Captain Banquo’s sons will be kings.One day Duncan visits Macbeth’s Castle and stays overnight. This is the point were Lady Macbeth bribes Macbeth to kill Duncan but he feels that he can not do it as Duncan had even crowned him Thane of Cawdor. He kills Duncan after Lady Macbeth’s bribes, he feels that he needs to kill any witnesses when as a loyal follower of Duncan come to wake him up to go back to the Castle, then he kills him and the guard that had been drugged last night before killing Duncan. And Lady Macbeth faints. Macbeth is proclaimed the new King of Scotland, but recalling the Witches second prophecy Macbeth sends hired murderes to kill Banquo and his son Flenance but the murderes commit a mistake and Flenance escapes. Then when Macduff and Malcom find out that Macbeth had killed the king they join forces from Ireland and England against Macbeth; and when Macbeth is finally killed Malcom is crowned the new King of Scotland. This reasearch has really helped me to understand the text in more depth as I now knpw the reason why Shakespeare wrote Macbeth.

Sources: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/higher/english/macbeth/background/revision/1/

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/m/macbeth/play-summary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare

Act1 Scene 7

October 15, 2015 / / 1 Comment

 

In this scene, Macbeth starts with a soliloquy we’re feels that he can not kill Duncan. Throughout time he has become too loyal to Dunacan and is thinking deeply about the consequences of killing Duncan. Also it is because Duncan even knighted Macbeth thane of Cawdor. Lady Macbeth is telling Macbeth to be the man he should be the merciless man who would kill anyone that is blocking his way. Lady Macbeth is questioning his masculinity, she tells Macbeth that if he lives like a coward because he has not killed Duncan, and he will die without achieving anything because he did not trust himself to kill Duncan.”Live a coward and die in thine own esteem”

 

Act 1Scene 6

October 13, 2015 / / 1 Comment

The scene starts  Duncan,Malcom,Donaldbain,Banquo,Lennox,Macduff,Ross,Angusand the attendants entering Macbeths castle as they had just arrived.  Lady Macbeth talked about how much Duncan is important to the castle. She bribes him and talks about how it is good for Duncan to have finally arrive as she waiting desperately to greet him” your majesty loads our house ” This is what Lady Macbeth says to Duncan as she has evil to pretend that she is trustworthy, also this means that Dunacan had made the house better, happier.

Act 1 Scenes 1-4

October 13, 2015 / / 1 Comment

Scene one starts with the three witches talking amongst themselves about the prophecy they are about to give to Macbeth upon the heath.”There to meet Macbeth” The witches say this because they are about to give a prophecy to Macbethbut Macbeth does not to trust them although they are supernatural and can see the future.

Scene two starts by the Sargent entering to report to King Duncan about their sutuation against the rebels.”The merciless Macdonwald” This means that Macdonwald is going to try ang fight Macbeth’s army with fresh supplies to kill them, as Macbeth are already tired from fighting against the rebels Macdonwald will take advantage of that.Then when the Sargent finishes saying how strongly they are doing. Then Ross comes in with Malcolm and talk about a traitor who helps the people from Norway.

Scene three stars with the three witches talking about where they have been or what they have done.Then one of the witches talks about how a sailors wife didn’t want to give her nuts”Killing swine” The witch had killed her and torture the rest of the people in the boat by locking the people in a apartment and not letting them sleep ever. then Macbeth and Banquo enter and the witches start telling Macbeth about the prophecy then the three witches hail Macbeth as he will become king. Then Macbeth mocks the witches by saying ” You should be women but your beards forbid me from doing so” Then first Macbeth will become Thane of Cawdor first then King, Banquo’s sons will get to be kings.The  Ross and Angus enter to praise Macbeth about how he is going to become Thane of Cawdor.

Scene four stars with  King Duncan talking to Malcom saying that that Macbeth and Banquo were going to return from the battle and they are going to come home.”O come my cousin” This means that Duncan is proud of Macbeth and Banquo as they fought two battles straight as they were really exhausted but still Macbeth was merciless.

 

12.10.15

October 12, 2015 / / 1 Comment

“I have no spur To prick the sides of my invent,but only Vaulting ambition which O’erleaps itself and falls on th’other” the quotation means that I have no incentive to prick the sides of my purpose,but only to jump the goal which jumps over itself and fall over the other. Macbeth’s ambition almost has a life of its own as it has power over him to complete his disire. Macbeth has given a personified ambition.

“Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.”

07.10.15 Act 1 Scene 5

October 7, 2015 / / 1 Comment

This scene starts with Lady Macbeth reading a letter from Macbeth, explaining that he had gotten a prophecy from three untrustfull witches that he was going to become king by killing Duncan Lady Macbeth talks to herself about how much she wants power, but she is worried that Macbeth won’t be man enough to kill Duncan to become king.” Unsex me here” Lady Macbeth says throughout the soliloquy, which shows that she wants to become a man because she thinks that women don’t have the skill to kill King Duncan. Lady Macbeth has plans to change Macbeth’s loyalty to Duncan “pour my spirits in thine ear”.Then  when Macbeth comes in she acts very differently as if she doesn’t want to Macbeth to know her evil plans yet of how to kill Duncan.

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