RE: MASTERPIECE

This is a clarification as to what my masterpiece is about.

Previous post

So I went from sports motivation in general to trying to motivate the Righetti Football team that I was apart of for four years. I know the have potential, they just need the right motivation, so I would like to interview the coaching staff and learn more as to what they are doing to motivate. And hopefully reaching my goal of being a coach myself one day.

ACT III READING NOTES & ANALYSIS

• Banquo suspicious of Macbeth
• Macbeth and Banquo have a conversation of their plans, this is when Macbeth finds out where Banquo is headed so he can send people to murder him
• Rationalizes by saying that if he doesn't kill, he will be killed
• Then Macbeth finds some people willing to kill Banquo and Fleance
• Macbeth then reports to Lady Macbeth, but this time with a much stronger tone, implying that he  has taken charge of operations
• Things move to Banquo where he is killed, but Fleance was able to escape
• They report to Macbeth to tell them that half the job is done, Macbeth is mad because he has even bigger issues now that Fleance will seek vengeance
• Macbeth then sees Banquo's ghost and decides to toast Banquo
• Lady Macbeth insults Macbeth again and thinks he's crazy and not a man
• The dinner party ends bad as guests get super freaked out
• The witches make an appearance again, but this time with Hecate, the goddess of witches and come up with a plan to tell Macbeth
• Things go worse for Macbeth as people start to connect the dots
• Malcolm and Mcduff then are helped by King Edward of England to fight Macbeth

It looks like Macbeth's paranoia is getting to him. It's pretty evident that Macbeth is starting to lose it. This is very similar to Hamlet, but I think there is a huge difference between them, Hamlet was just pretending and Macbeth really actually is crazy. I mean he is sort of over thinking the witches prophecy by immediately labeling Banquo and company as enemies. It's weird how he could of not thought that when he dies of natural causes or something of that nature, then Banquo's family will take over. He also overreacted too much to the deaths of Duncan and Banquo, which was exposed by Malcolm and Mcduff. Macbeth is finally getting caught up to and things are just going to get worse in act IV

WHAT ABOUT MY MASTERPIECE?

So far for my masterpiece, I know that I would like to conduct several interviews, but I do not know the questions I would like to ask. Right now I have a few people in mind, but would like to do some more research to have more variety with my interviews. I don't know how I will present it exactly, but I will focus more on that when I am satisfied with what I have in terms of the main aspects of the presentation. Shakespeare had all day to do things because he didn't have a job as far as I know, so in turn he just focused most of his attention to his plays. He was probably really busy, but most of it was because of his literature.

LOVE IS BLIND

Macbeth sees his wife as very cunning and knows what to do, but he does not always agree with what she has to say. As of now it seems like he is kind of afraid of her because he doesn't seem to talk back to her when she questions his manhood. Or it could just be a strong respect for her because he thinks that she has some valid points to make. As for the audience, I personally think she is crazy and psychotic. She seems really power hungry and her dialogue does not help especially when she ask for more masculinity to go through with the murder. That also explains why she is psychotic, she asked for poison in her breasts and I took that as she is unstable and needs some serious help.

TRYING TO UNDERSTAND MACBETH

• the witches are super weird and seem really devious
• Shakespeare is trying to portray Macbeth as a noble man by murdering a traitor
• but at the same time, showing how ruthless he could be
• Macbeth begins his ascension by being named the Thane of Cawdor
• Macbeth and Banquo encounter the witches and wonder about what their may happen in their futures
• Macbeth learns that he has been crowned the thane of Cawdor
• The king along with Macbeth and Malcolm rejoice over the old thane's death
• the king announces that Malcolm will be named Prince or Cumberland
•  Macbeth, in an aside, talks about how Malcolm is his only obstacle to becoming king
• Macbeth meets with Lady Macbeth and tells her about the prophecy
• She goes crazy and says that Duncan needs to die and ends up asking to lose any chance or reproduction.
• King Duncan and Banquo arrive at the Macbeth palace and greet Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth doesn't want to kill the King at the moment, but Lady Macbeth questions his manhood and comes up with a plan to do it anyways.

So from the very beginning of the play, Shakespeare begins it with a weird vibe that only gets weirder as the play progresses. When he describes Macbeth's battle, it did a really good job of establishing Macbeth as a man who gets things done. To me, Macbeth seems like he would be loyal, but his great ambitions will not be able to be contained, and he'll end up doing something really stupid. To make things worse, he and Banquo meet the witches and they tell them that Macbeth will be king. This makes Macbeth more ambitious, along with being named the thane of Cawdor. I think that Macbeth would probably really struggle with killing the King, but his wife seems really out of it and only really thirsts for power. She has a lot of qualities similar to Macbeth as to getting things done, but at this point in the play she seems a lot crazier than him and she will only cause more trouble for Macbeth.

MEET MACBETH

Macbeth is introduced through indirect characterization because Shakespeare uses the slaughter by Macbeth to introduce him as ruthless and merciful, getting right to the point as to who Macbeth really is. The witches foreshadow Macbeth's ascension to the throne by murdering his fellow thanes and be sole ruler of his people. Shakespeare explains the exposition more aggressively by describing the actions of Macbeth rather than have some sort of build up, which in turn sets a tone for an even more twisted play than he ever did. Shakespeare towards Macbeth show that this will be a very violent and sadistic story and he conveys that by showing how savage Macbeth can be when need be. The main theme I believe that was shown through Macbeth was accomplish anything at all costs no matter how evil the intentions are.

MY MACBETH RESOURCES

I feel like the following could be useful as we read Macbeth

1. http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/macbeth/macbethresources.html
2. http://www.gradesaver.com/macbeth/essays/essay2/
3. http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/macbeth/macbethps.html
4. http://nfs.sparknotes.com/macbeth/
5. http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/season/synopsis/macbeth