Thursday, April 18, 2013

Macbeth Act V Active Reading Notes

All right climax time
  • "Enter Lady Macbeth" 
    • Is she going crazy?
    • This doesn't seem like her
  • "Ay but their sense is shut"
    • Love it
  • "Banquo's buried; he cannot come out on's grave"
    • What?! Is this guilt
    • Or is this just a spiel
  • "his title hang loose about him, like a giant's robe upon a dwarfish thief"
    • Don't want to get into a insult fight with Shakespeare
    • I'd loose badly
  • "there is ten thousand -- Geese, villain!"
    • Macbeth acts like he has confidence in his victory but when a servant doubts him he is offended and enraged
    • He is insecure in himself and unsure of his victory 
  • "And none serve with him but constrained things whose hearts are absent too."
    • Macbeth is officially king but his reputation is scared and twisted 
    • His troops sever him out of duty not because they respect him
  • "A cry of a women withing" 
    • Pretty sure its Lady Macbeth
    • Very odd way for her to go
    • Someone who valued strength so much dies because emotion, guilt and fear 
  • "Young Siward is slain"
    • Macbeth take this as a sign that he cannot be killed by any many born of a women
Interesting that Macbeth didn't die. Seems unshakspearing. Nice play. 

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