The witches significance.
I think the witches in Macbeth are used to emphisis Macbeths darker side. At the begining of the play, Macbeth is see as a noble-man, a good honest warrior who fought for Scotland.
The witches simply, as they say "plant seeds" that in turn slowly pull Macbeth over to the "Dark side" prehaps without Macbeth even knowing. Macbeth even gets refered to as "Black Macbeth" throughout the play, he slowly becomes more evil in the things that he does for example setting murderers after Banquo, Fleaunce, Macduff and Macduff's son and wife. With each visit from the witches Macbeth seeingly gets worse.
I think the witches are a representation of Destiny, and a set path that has been chosen for you.
In the play, you could argue whether Macbeth would have killed King Duncan to become king if it hadn't been for the witches interference. Would he even have known that he would be in line for King? Well my argument is this, Maybe Macbeth's path was to meet these witches, maybe he had no choice, he was destined to kill Duncan the way that he did and to gradually become evil.
At one point Macbeth even said himself that if the witches didn't give him the information that he wanted he would curse them forever. This could possibly connote the fact that Macbeth has become the things he calls "old hags", a witch himself.
I think that the relevence of the witches is just to show Macbeths venture into the dark side.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Act III Reading journal.
Act III shows the death of Banquo. A scene that arguably could in fact be left out of Macbeth all together. I however find this scene very important because of the fact that Banquo tell Fleaunce, his son to "Fly, Fly,Fly". I find this one of the most important phrases in the entire play because of the play reference to birds.
In a previous scene Macbeth talks about an Owl, "taking out" a Hawk. This is important to remember because at the time this is said, Macbeth is the owl and King Duncan is the Hawk. Once Macbeth had murdered King Duncan, He almost instantly became the Hawk himself. Now back to the present scene, Banquo whilst being murdered himself tells his son to "Fly Fly Fly" and get revenge, almost entitling him as a bird, therefore making Fleaunce the Owl, seeking revenge over Macbeth, now the Hawk.
Another thing is the way that we see Macbeth change in this act in particular. He gradually throughout the play changes as surcomes to the witches minipulation. The said at the beggining that they will plant seeds, maybe now these seeds had formed thus altaring macbeth. Another thing that facinates me is Macbeths relationship with his wife Lady Macbeth who seems almost like a witch herself in the way that she doesn't beat around the bush. What she and Macbeth have done has been done and she always just bluntly puts it to Macbeth. Its a bit ironic that Lady ~Macbeth is always trying to cool Macbeth down and reasure him that they will not be caught but at the same time she puts it so bluntly to him that he has no choice but to remember and panic about it.
We also see the introduction of, Hiscat, the "Cheif" witch if you like. Hiscat follows the same trend as the witches but seems to remain much more rule bound. Following set rule about witchcraft and almost telling the other witches off about the way that they told macbeth of future events.
TBC
In a previous scene Macbeth talks about an Owl, "taking out" a Hawk. This is important to remember because at the time this is said, Macbeth is the owl and King Duncan is the Hawk. Once Macbeth had murdered King Duncan, He almost instantly became the Hawk himself. Now back to the present scene, Banquo whilst being murdered himself tells his son to "Fly Fly Fly" and get revenge, almost entitling him as a bird, therefore making Fleaunce the Owl, seeking revenge over Macbeth, now the Hawk.
Another thing is the way that we see Macbeth change in this act in particular. He gradually throughout the play changes as surcomes to the witches minipulation. The said at the beggining that they will plant seeds, maybe now these seeds had formed thus altaring macbeth. Another thing that facinates me is Macbeths relationship with his wife Lady Macbeth who seems almost like a witch herself in the way that she doesn't beat around the bush. What she and Macbeth have done has been done and she always just bluntly puts it to Macbeth. Its a bit ironic that Lady ~Macbeth is always trying to cool Macbeth down and reasure him that they will not be caught but at the same time she puts it so bluntly to him that he has no choice but to remember and panic about it.
We also see the introduction of, Hiscat, the "Cheif" witch if you like. Hiscat follows the same trend as the witches but seems to remain much more rule bound. Following set rule about witchcraft and almost telling the other witches off about the way that they told macbeth of future events.
TBC
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