In the four scenes of Act II, it can be inferred that Macbeth has let guilt and his own wife provoke him to killing King Duncan. Not only did he kill Duncan, he killed his two servants in fear that they saw that the two had seen the murder. Without Lady Macbeth, the murder would have been botched. She went back and fixed the daggers in the servants' hands to make it seem like they killed King Duncan. I see this as a big twist, because in the beginning of this story Macbeth is seen as one of the bravest and most loyal fighters to King Duncan. Now he has deceived him and even become cowardly framing others to make it look like they killed him. Although Macbeth does admit to Macduff he was the one who killed the servants, he lies about the reason he did claiming he was angry because they killed the King which they didn't. The duo of Lady Macbeth and the Thane of Cawdor as well as Glamis, have turned evil and will stop at nothing until all interfering assets are out of the way. The term, "foul is fair and fair is foul" can have an example just as this one. The fact that Macbeth conceived an idea to take out the king for his power delighted him. Other the other end, the king would see that as very evil. So in that exact case, what is considered fair is foul and what is seen as foul is fair. It seems as though Shakespeare parallels the weather to the event of King Duncan being killed. Ross describes the sky as having an "unnatural darkness", although the sun was out, it looked as though it is nighttime. Several unusual events began to happen. Like horses began to eat each other, as well as an owl eating a hawk. It is though Macbeth becoming king is not natural and should not happen. Macbeth seems to blow the the witches' predictions out of line every time they speak to him. He was told he would be king, but the witches did not specifically say to kill King Duncan and it will happen. He let the desire of gaining all of this power by being king take over his mind, forcing him to commit murder on the king. In my opinion, had Lady Macbeth not provoked Macbeth so much into killing King Duncan, Macbeth could have potentially avoided all of this trouble.
Friday, February 27, 2015
Act II of Macbeth
In the four scenes of Act II, it can be inferred that Macbeth has let guilt and his own wife provoke him to killing King Duncan. Not only did he kill Duncan, he killed his two servants in fear that they saw that the two had seen the murder. Without Lady Macbeth, the murder would have been botched. She went back and fixed the daggers in the servants' hands to make it seem like they killed King Duncan. I see this as a big twist, because in the beginning of this story Macbeth is seen as one of the bravest and most loyal fighters to King Duncan. Now he has deceived him and even become cowardly framing others to make it look like they killed him. Although Macbeth does admit to Macduff he was the one who killed the servants, he lies about the reason he did claiming he was angry because they killed the King which they didn't. The duo of Lady Macbeth and the Thane of Cawdor as well as Glamis, have turned evil and will stop at nothing until all interfering assets are out of the way. The term, "foul is fair and fair is foul" can have an example just as this one. The fact that Macbeth conceived an idea to take out the king for his power delighted him. Other the other end, the king would see that as very evil. So in that exact case, what is considered fair is foul and what is seen as foul is fair. It seems as though Shakespeare parallels the weather to the event of King Duncan being killed. Ross describes the sky as having an "unnatural darkness", although the sun was out, it looked as though it is nighttime. Several unusual events began to happen. Like horses began to eat each other, as well as an owl eating a hawk. It is though Macbeth becoming king is not natural and should not happen. Macbeth seems to blow the the witches' predictions out of line every time they speak to him. He was told he would be king, but the witches did not specifically say to kill King Duncan and it will happen. He let the desire of gaining all of this power by being king take over his mind, forcing him to commit murder on the king. In my opinion, had Lady Macbeth not provoked Macbeth so much into killing King Duncan, Macbeth could have potentially avoided all of this trouble.
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