Friday, November 7, 2008

Macbeth: Act 1: Scenes 1-3

For my blogs I'm going to focus mainly on Disease and injury.

Disease/Injury:
Pg 26-Duncan: What bloody man is that?
Pg 26-Sergeant: Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel, which smoked with bloody execution
Pg 28-Sergeant: Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds
Pg 28-Sergeant: My gashes cry for help

Obviously I got these from the class notes you put up considering they're pretty much verbatim. But anyway. This play is in a way centered around death. I chose to focus on disease and injury for that reason...I figured there would be a lot about it throughout the whole play. A lot of the lines having to do with injury in these early chapters are from the guards who speak to each other about visions they had (especially the dreams with the weird sisters). Later on though I think the lines are going to start to turn from casual speaking to lines about the injuries of the dead and murdered.

1 comment:

Jsmith said...

I agree with you on that there's alot of Disease and Injury. This book is all about killing and being important. Macbeth kills alot of people to be king but ends up getting killed himself. If you live by the sword you will die by the sword. LOL Later in the book people will ge jaked up even more.