Thursday, January 17, 2008

January 15th, 2008



"Macbeth is another one of Shakespeare’s great tragedies, based on Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland. It was written around 1605 but was not published in the first Folio until 1623. It tells about the fall of the ambitious couple, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Macbeth is the tragic hero, a character who has a fatal (tragic)flaw within himself that he cannot change. He is not a bad person; he is just too ambitious. Macbeth is a story about the murder of a king by his brother, the revenge of a son (Macbeth), three witches who plot against Macbeth, and Macbeth’s rise and fall."

This ambition constant craving for more power which MacBeth contained caused me to chose GUILT as the best expressive word relating to my video. MacBeth was not a bad person and therefore, all the blood shed to obtain this power leads to many deaths and suicide...which I visually express within my video depicting Shakespeares play.

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