Good morning,
Last night was a ton of fun, stressful yes, but all in all, I think that everyone enjoyed themselves. I noticed that a few people were taping the performance and I am actually very interested to see how it looks. I know that our final term paper is a comparison of our performance to our film actors performance and I think that a visual may help to provide a bit more detail than if we simple wrote from memory. I am excited to hear more of the reactions from my fellow classmates on Monday!
Honestly, I do not really know what to say in reference to Macbeth. Although the witches played a big part in at least planting the idea of King into Macbeth's head, it was indeed Lady Macbeth's brown-nosing remarks along with many negative cunning remarks that pushed Macbeth over the edge to murder his King and take over the throne. After killing King Duncan, Macbeth becomes very upset and begins to lose his sanity. After numerous betrayals and murders, Lady Macbeth begins to sleepwalk and eventually joins Macbeth in his insanity. In the end, it is Macbeth's head held in Macduff's fist that completes the play.
After having read the play a second time, I can now understand that the witches foreshadowed the entire play within the first few scenes. Although their contradictory language does leave some room for interpretation. All in all, I appreciated this play more in the class, reviewing the language than I did in my Theatre class where the acting itself was analyzed. One needs a bit of both to truly understand and appreciate one of Shakespeare's great works. Macbeth is no exception.
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Good work last night! We'll talk about Macbeth on Monday.
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