Monday, March 2, 2015

Act 5

    As Malcolm prepares his troops, the only thing that Macbeth can think about is how a man couldn't be born of a woman and how Birnam wood could travel to Dunsinane. The information that the witches have provided him are making him think that there is no way that he can be harmed.
    The war begins and Macbeth is doing everything that he can to avoid Macduff because that was his first piece of advice was to beware of him. As he sits in his tower watching as his men die for him, a messenger comes to him and is in amazement because of something that he saw. To his eye it looked as if Birnam wood was coming in over the top of Dunisinane hill. Thinking that there was no way that that could ever happen Macbeth goes and looks for himself. It seemed that Malcolm's men had camouflaged them self in Birnam wood and brush and they were moving in on the castle. So there's one check off the list. As Macbeth begins to panic, he thinks well that still leaves the impossibility of a man not being born of a woman. So he starts to feel calm again.
    As Macbeth begins to fight when he finds himself face to face with Macduff. They begin to fight and Macbeth feels very confident to the wise words of his apparition. As he tells Macduff of these things, Macduff proceeds to tell Macbeth that he was not born of a woman because they cut him out of his mother's womb in a c-section. Has Macbeth hears these words he begins to realize that the witches had made him believe that their advice was none other than a warning of how he would die.
    The trumpets sound of victory and defeat and Malcolm is crowned king.

Act 4, Scene 2

    Ross goes to Lady Macduff and tells he that Macduff as left the land to go find Malcolm in hopes that he will come take over the land and get rid of Macbeth. These news makes Lady Macduff scared that her son will have to live on without a father. As they talk about what they will do if Macduff doesn't return a messenger comes warning them to leave. As they are gathering there coats, murderers enter and kill all of Macduff's "chickens".
    Macduff gets to Malcolm and tells him of the horrible things that Macbeth has done and tells him of how he wants him to come back and take over the land. At first Malcolm believes that this is a trick. Macbeth has tricked him before so he is going to test Macduff. He explains to Macduff that once Macbeth is gone, that he will do a worse job than him. His goal for this test is to see if Macduff will disregard his king and praise him. He also tests Macduff to say that his greed and lust is okay, because no amount of greed and lust can beat what Macbeth has done to their land.

Act 4, Scene 1

    Macbeth goes to see the witches to see if he can find out more information. The witches unleash three apparitions to tell Macbeth the information he wants to know. The first apparition says to beware of Macduff. The second basically says that he has nothing to worry about because nobody born from a woman could ever harm him and that is seemingly impossible. The third says that he will only be defeated when Birnam Wood matches to fight him at Dunsinane Hill, which is also seemingly impossible.
    Coming from me who knows what happens in the end, these three pieces of "information" now seem to sound more like warnings. If Macbeth would have made it impossible for these things to come his way, maybe things wouldn't have ended for him the way that they did. All though he 100% percent deserved it, you would think he would've thought about it.

Act 3, Scene 4

    After Banquo is murdered, Macbeth continues on with his glories of being king, but we discover his guilt is beginning to rise. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth enter the room with their court to see the feast that is served for them. One of the murderers arrive and tell Macbeth that Banquo is dead, but Fleance escaped. When Macbeth returns to the table he goes to sit in his seat at the table, but notices to his own eye of guilt rising that Banquo's ghost is sitting there. When Macbeth makes a big scene, Lady Macbeth is forced to be the calm one, which is surprising because she is psycho, and excuse herself and Macbeth from the table.
    As Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are talking about Banquo's ghost, Macbeth talks about the river of blood that he is in. He is in so deep and had killed so many people that if he would turn around in the river and go back it would be the same as him just finishing what he started and continuing to walk all the way to the other side of the river.

Act 3, Scene 1-3

    In the beginning of act three Macbeth remembers to when the witches told him that Banquo's son, Fleance, would become king. So instead of just living out his life being king, he feels that that is not enough and he wants his kids to be king. Macbeth takes it upon himself to hire three murderers to kill Banquo and Fleance. Macbeth believes that he could kill Banquo himself, but they have mutual friends and if he killed him then he may not have friends anymore.
    When Macbeth meets with the murderers, he has to do some convincing because I mean who wants to kill a child and then his father. Macbeth some how convinces them that it is Banquo's fault that they have had the troubles that they have had. "Well then, now have you considered of my speeches? Know that it was he, in the times past, which held you under fortune, which you thought had been out innocent self." He says these things in total confidence. When it probably was his fault that the men had such problems in their lives in the past.
    When the murderers go on their mission to kill Banquo and Fleance, they make hic-up. They managed to kill Banquo, but they let little Fleance escape.