Monday, February 16, 2015
Duncan's Death
Okay so Act II was actually very interesting. It began with the Banquo not being able to sleep because of nightmares about the witches. MacBeth and him have a quick talk about the witches and then Lady MacBeth rings the bell to order MacBeth to kill Duncan. Wow does she have compete control over him! Before he murders him he become anxious and paranoid and imagines an invisible weapon. But then again who wouldn't go crazy if they were being forced to kill someone just to raise their social level. What if people were still like this today? Then MacBeth does the deed of killing poor old Duncan and comes back to his wife with bloody hands. He feels guilt and I'm not sure if he imagined it or not but he heard Duncan's servants praying and he couldn't say Amen with them because he just murdered someone. Then old control freak Lady MacBeth freaks out on MacBeth because he forgot to put the weapons with Duncan's servants to free himself from blame. She goes and places the weapons back there herself. She is one crazy lady. She would have killed the poor man herself if he didn't look like her father when he slept. A lady that would kill an innocent man? That woman would have some serious nerves. Then the weird knocking happens for like a million lines. It just ended up being somebody who wanted to see Duncan and wake him up because that was his assignment. MacBeth takes him to Duncan's room and fakes his surprise at his death. MacBeth then kills the servants that allegedly killed Duncan and his wife does a great fainting act at the horror of seeing a man dead in her house. MacDuff doesn't believe this story one bit and I'm sure no other person would either. Really hoping MacDuff gets MacBeth in the future for the murders but I'm not sure if that is Shakespeare's style of writing or not. Duncan's some flee the scene to England and Ireland because they are afraid they will be murdered next, which I am sure would happen because of control freak Lady MacBeth. The dumb princes left and that makes MacBeth king. So now MacBeth and Lady MacBeth have control. The witches were right but where on earth is Shakespeare going to take this story now? Is MacBeth going to be killed by the suspicious MacDuff or is MacBeth going to kill him first. I'm sure after the blood on his hands MacBeth will do anything in his power to maintain control. Maybe even become Hitler before Hitler was a thing. Then the weird conversation with Ross happened. I went back to not understanding Shakespeare at that part. Something about birds and horses. Like where did that come from and what is it supposed to mean?
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