Gender, Guilt, and Fate - Macbeth, Part 2: Crash Course Literature 410
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Stella
Lord Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, is the title character and titular main protagonist turned primary antagonist of William Shakespeare's Macbeth (c. 1603-1607.
The character is based on the historical king Macbeth of Scotland, and is derived largely from the account in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587, a history of Britain.
Macbeth is a Scottish noble and a valiant military man.
After a supernatural prophecy, and at the urging of his wife, Lady Macbeth, he commits regicide and becomes King of Scotland.
He thereafter lives in anxiety and fear, unable to rest or to trust his nobles.
He leads a reign of terror until defeated by his former ally Macduff.
The throne is then restored to the rightful heir, the murdered King Duncan's son, Malcolm.
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Lord Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, is the title character and titular main protagonist turned primary antagonist of William Shakespeare's Macbeth (c. 1603-1607.
The character is based on the historical king Macbeth of Scotland, and is derived largely from the account in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587, a history of Britain.
Macbeth is a Scottish noble and a valiant military man.
After a supernatural prophecy, and at the urging of his wife, Lady Macbeth, he commits regicide and becomes King of Scotland.
He thereafter lives in anxiety and fear, unable to rest or to trust his nobles.
He leads a reign of terror until defeated by his former ally Macduff.
The throne is then restored to the rightful heir, the murdered King Duncan's son, Malcolm.
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Froehlig
Ren Faire geek, here. Just a fun note (or rest, the Wyrd rune is the blank one. It's all kinda hearsay, but the futhark (aka alphabet. Yes, rune stones are just really old Scrabble tiles) but it seems as if the divination/magic, and the Wyrd, got added around, like 1250-1300. Prior, it seems, they were more just about stories and concepts and harvests and coping and respectful burials. They were not Christian, though, so yeah, they were -evil, - (Christians might call them Pagan, but um, no) and thusly developed supernatural powers, and the Wyrd rune. I just -love- that Shakespeare's rather soft Catholicism was addressed. Religion is not an evil subject about which to talk. erhem. It matters -so- much in Macbeth, IMHO.
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Ren Faire geek, here. Just a fun note (or rest, the Wyrd rune is the blank one. It's all kinda hearsay, but the futhark (aka alphabet. Yes, rune stones are just really old Scrabble tiles) but it seems as if the divination/magic, and the Wyrd, got added around, like 1250-1300. Prior, it seems, they were more just about stories and concepts and harvests and coping and respectful burials. They were not Christian, though, so yeah, they were -evil, - (Christians might call them Pagan, but um, no) and thusly developed supernatural powers, and the Wyrd rune. I just -love- that Shakespeare's rather soft Catholicism was addressed. Religion is not an evil subject about which to talk. erhem. It matters -so- much in Macbeth, IMHO.
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Some
An interesting and different analysis of the scene referred to at 8: 22 is that Malcolm wanted to make sure Macduff wasn-t trying to install him as a puppet. He ensures that Macduff really does want the best for Scotland by telling him what a terrible person he (Malcolm) is. Eventually, Macduff realizes that this picture of Malcolm would be worse for Scotland even than the current reign of Macbeth, and gives up trying to get him to be king. Now that Malcolm is sure of Macduff-s good intentions, he gives up the game and agrees to go back to Scotland with him.
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An interesting and different analysis of the scene referred to at 8: 22 is that Malcolm wanted to make sure Macduff wasn-t trying to install him as a puppet. He ensures that Macduff really does want the best for Scotland by telling him what a terrible person he (Malcolm) is. Eventually, Macduff realizes that this picture of Malcolm would be worse for Scotland even than the current reign of Macbeth, and gives up trying to get him to be king. Now that Malcolm is sure of Macduff-s good intentions, he gives up the game and agrees to go back to Scotland with him.
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partlysunnysky
I just watched the Cincinnati Shakespeare company's production of Macbeth, in it they had lady Macbeth give birth to a stillborn baby at the beginning of a play, and made it seem throughout like her ambition to be queen was to have someone good for her family, since she couldn't give her husband a child. They also had malcom and banquo's kid be girls, that was cool
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I just watched the Cincinnati Shakespeare company's production of Macbeth, in it they had lady Macbeth give birth to a stillborn baby at the beginning of a play, and made it seem throughout like her ambition to be queen was to have someone good for her family, since she couldn't give her husband a child. They also had malcom and banquo's kid be girls, that was cool
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Limped
I had to research this cause i had the same question but for anyone questioning why he keeps bring up masculine and feminine uses in the english language when the english language doesn't have masculine and feminine in its language like spanish or german. Turns out that old english and middle english did have masculine and feminine but was phased out during middle english.
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I had to research this cause i had the same question but for anyone questioning why he keeps bring up masculine and feminine uses in the english language when the english language doesn't have masculine and feminine in its language like spanish or german. Turns out that old english and middle english did have masculine and feminine but was phased out during middle english.
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honesty
Feels like Lady Macbeth kinda has some similarities to Gunnhild from the Icelandic sagas (although, she was a rumored witch. From an undergrad essay I wrote:
'Jochens states that Gunnhild is -the prototype of evil and revenging women in the Old Norse corpus, Queen Gunnhildr looms behind all imaginary and possible real women of this kind. -'
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Feels like Lady Macbeth kinda has some similarities to Gunnhild from the Icelandic sagas (although, she was a rumored witch. From an undergrad essay I wrote:
'Jochens states that Gunnhild is -the prototype of evil and revenging women in the Old Norse corpus, Queen Gunnhildr looms behind all imaginary and possible real women of this kind. -'
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Brian
There is something fascinating about watching a character-real or fictional-slowly (or sometimes rapidly) cross over to the dark side. Literary examples include Clyde Griffiths (American Tragedy, Michael Corleone (The Godfather, and of course Frankenstein-s monster. In film, a recent famous example is Anakin Skywalker.
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There is something fascinating about watching a character-real or fictional-slowly (or sometimes rapidly) cross over to the dark side. Literary examples include Clyde Griffiths (American Tragedy, Michael Corleone (The Godfather, and of course Frankenstein-s monster. In film, a recent famous example is Anakin Skywalker.
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purpandorange
I actually really like how Macbeth continues to fight when he realizes he will not survive his fight with Macduff, like even after he realized that he no longer has a hope he continues to fight. To me, that shows he is still a warrior despite becoming a butcher and losing everything.
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I actually really like how Macbeth continues to fight when he realizes he will not survive his fight with Macduff, like even after he realized that he no longer has a hope he continues to fight. To me, that shows he is still a warrior despite becoming a butcher and losing everything.
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Joey
-I was a c-section baby-
- boring
- generic
- unoriginal
-I was from my mother's womb untimely ripped-
- metal as hell
- much cooler
- could be the fulfillment of a witches prophecy
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-I was a c-section baby-
- boring
- generic
- unoriginal
-I was from my mother's womb untimely ripped-
- metal as hell
- much cooler
- could be the fulfillment of a witches prophecy
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Chiara
Loved this! I'm an EFL teacher in high school and I find this extremely useful. I wish you made an episode about Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, one of my favourite teaching subject
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Loved this! I'm an EFL teacher in high school and I find this extremely useful. I wish you made an episode about Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, one of my favourite teaching subject
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