Monday, March 31, 2014

Meet Macbeth

Macbeth was first introduced in the story by other characters in the story talking about how glorious and what a great warrior he is. They talked about him killing a man (brutally cut him open vertically, decapitated him and put his head on a stake) and saving a the Sargeant. Other characters such as the witches also characterized him and foreshadowed his future of being a king with a kind of riddle/poem that confuses him on what they mean. Throughout the story the audience looks at Macbeth as a godless killing machine but ironically is nothing like that, he is just a soldier following orders. It's the way Shakespeare made him look before we actually got to meet him, it's like what everyone does from his time to our time they judge him without knowing, just hearing all the gossip (talking about the audience). So, Macbeth is a misunderstood character in the beginning in a tragic dramatic story

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