Macbeth Screening

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Information About Macbeth:

Author: William Shakespeare 

Language: English 

Genre: Shakespearean Tragedy 

Publish Year: 1623

Publisher: Edward Blount and William  Jaggard

Protagonist: Lord Macbeth 

-  Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is a thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the  damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power. Of all the place that Shakespeare wrote during the region of James I , Macbeth most clearly reflects is relationship with king James, patron of Shakespeare's acting company. It was first published in the Folio of 1623, possibly from a prompt book, and is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy.

About the Protagonist:

- Lord Macbeth is a protagonist of play.

- This is picture of Act I , when Macbeth and Banquo encounter the witches for the first time.

- A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. 

• Screening:

Witchcraft and Evil: 

- In the play, the Three Witches represent darkness, chaos, and conflict, while their role is as agents and witnesses. Their presence communicates treason and impending doom. During Shakespeare's day, witches were seen as worse than rebels, "the most notorious traytor and rebell that can be". They were not only political traitors, but spiritual traitors as well. Much of the confusion that springs from them comes from their ability to straddle the play's borders between reality and the supernatural.

• Macbeth:

- Macbeth is a hero of this play who converted in villain in the end. He is a hero for himself but villian for his kingdom.

- He was a valour and brave Scottish man.

- His black and deep desire made him murderer.

- Macbeth said no to kill Duncan, so Lady Macbeth get angry on him and provoke him to kill Duncan.

- Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? So many metaphor used by him.

- After Duncan's murder Macbeth does murder sleep. His soul knocking two sides. 

- His place turn in hell after this murder. Porter said it's a hell gate.

- Macbeth's mind can't work properly. He acted like dipressed and traumatic stress.

• Lady Macbeth: 

- Lady Macbeth is very cruel. She is a fourth witch of this play.

- When Macbeth said no to kill Duncan, she provoke him to kill Duncan.

- She planned Duncan's murder. She was a such cruel queen. 

- After Duncan's murder they become King and Queen.

- After Duncan's murder she did unnatural deeds, infected minds. Doctor said about her , any madicine can't work in her.

Conclusion: 

             Overall, the supernatural elements heighten the play’s sense of inevitability and moral disintegration, illustrating how external forces and internal desires can intertwine to shape characters' fates and drive the plot towards its tragic conclusion.