Sunday, April 6, 2014

Macbeth Reading Notes

Act 1
Prophecy of witches: Macbeth will be Thane of Cawdor, then King... Banquo will have his children be kings but he will not be a king........ which excites Macbeth and makes him think about killing King Duncan himself.
King gives him the title and is proud of him... announces that he will give his son the kingdom naming him Prince of Cumberland... He also says that Banquo is cool and gives him some props, says he will give him love
Lady Macbeth wants Macbeth to kill the King and man up already... "Man up and kill him.  You are a coward!  Grow a pair!!!" Macbeth seems to look to his wife for advice... "But honey, I just got promoted..."
LOL- Macbeth basically told Lady Macbeth that she can only have sons because she is so manly and fearless
Act 2
Macbeth wants to get Banquo in on this but Banquo wants a clear conscious...
Lady Macbeth was willing to kill the king herself but she thought he looked like her father so she couldn't... has some type of feeling.
Chaos in the supernatural order..
Macbeth kills him and feels bad about it... Lady Macbeth tells him not to think about it...
Macduff is to wake him up and he finds him bloody
Macbeth plays it cool and kills the servants because he loved the king so much..
Malcom and Donalbain are suspicious and head off to Ireland and England... Don't want to be murdered
Ross starts to question the murder... asking who has what to gain from this murder... Kind of suspicious that Malcom would kill his father who gave him the kingdom... why would he flee?  Why did Macbeth have to kill the servants?

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