Macbeth

What was very interesting to me was that a lot of people looked back to the Greek and Roman classics. This explains why artist start drawing or painting similar to the Greeks and Romans. An example of this is that a lot of paintings have nude people in then, when before that wasn’t allowed.
During the renaissance, the Catholic Church lost is almighty grip on people. This is because more people becoming literate. This allows more people to be educated to find things out on their own instead of having to have corrupt people tell them what stuff means

Scotland and Norway are at war and a big battle is under way at the beginning of the play. During the fight the Captain wonders about how the fight is going so he asks a Captain being brought off the battlefield. Since communications were limited to talking and writing so the king doesn’t know what is going on.
The Captain tells the king that Macbeth turned the battle into Scotland’s favor by himself. The king then congratulates Macbeth him doing this means he cares for his people. Then Ross comes in and says that the Thane of Cawdor has become a traitor. Since the King cares about his people he has Macbeth become the new Thane of Cawdor and has him re take it.
Macbeth comes home to his wife who tries to have him become the king. She tries to convince him to over throw the king because he is the one that is next in line now that he is the Thane of Cawdor. He doesn’t want to kill the king since the king was so generous to him.


During Act II Macbeth is debating in his mind on what to do. I thought that when he was debating on what the dagger was a big battle in his head. He was fighting over should he kill the king or should he not. Which if he did he could end up being the King. When he starts hallucinating about the dagger being bloodied he was sure he was going to kill the King.
When he came back to his wife he brought the daggers with him. This was when he wasn’t thinking right I think still. His wife didn’t like that he came back with the daggers and he refused to go back afraid of what he had done.
Then at the end Ross and an old man show how nature was important to the people in the Renaissance. They showed that if nature was acting weird then that was what was going on with people. Like nature reflects what is happening. So they thought that something very bad was going to happen because of how dark it was and that so many weird things have happened.


In the beginning of act III Banquo is wondering about the witches saying the stuff about Macbeth is true. He then wonders if his children will be kings as well. “Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all, as the weird women promised,”
Then Macbeth talks to him and becomes worried because the witches said that Banquo’s sons would be kings and Macbeths would not. So he decides he would stop this before it happens. “Banquo stick deep, and in his royalty of nature reigns that which would be feared”. This is where he starts to mess up a lot because he has Banquo killed and tries to have Banquo’s son killed but he gets away. So it kind of back fires and it can make him look really bad.
During his party Macbeth sees the ghost of Banquo after he knows his dead. Macbeth then flips out in front of all the lords he invited to the party. Nobody else can see the ghost so they think he is crazy. This is where he basically tells on himself for killing Banquo.


Macbeth is worried because he saw the ghost of Banquo, which freaked him out. So since he was worried about him self and his power he hold. “shall Banquo’s issue ever reign in this kingdom” line 102. When he was told his future by the witches he feels sure about himself so he decides to kill Macduffs whole family. “give to th’ edge o’ th’ sword his wife, his babe, and all the unfortunate souls” line 151. Which at this point he totally losses himself in his power and losses trust in people that aren’t with him totally.
Macduff did what most were afraid to do and that was stand against Macbeth. Him going to England to try and get Malcolm to come back and take back the crown from Macbeth. This shows that he really cares about Scotland and is willing to sacrifice so much for it.
Lady Macbeth even though she is being troubled by the evil that is going on she is feeling bad I think because she has been caught. Not because it was evil and horrible what she had Macbeth did. Macbeth taking everything the witches said literally so he thought he really was invincible because they said no one born form a woman could hurt him “What’s the boy Malcolm? Was he not born of woman?” line 3 page 373. Which will be his down fall of it all.