- - - Who or what is in control in the play? Are the witches in control, are the characters in control of their own actions or is everything predetermined by fate? Please defend your response.
- - - Explain the significance of Shakespeare drawing distinctions between masculinity and femininity in the play, and of his use of contrast. Support your response.
1.)The characters are in control of their own actions. The witches at the begin go on to say that macbeth will be the king. However macbeth and banquo both have issues in believing what the witches had said. As the play goes on the two decide to go along with what the witches say and to see how it will plan out. A real world example of this is praying to the dead. People believe or have faith in that the father will hear their call and let the chosen one hear what they are saying. Although some do not have strong belief in this action they still do it because of that it could he real thought, this is a example of this in the play.
ReplyDelete2.) Shakespeares contrast and distinctions are that macbeth (the guy) has femininty and lady macbeth(the lady) to masculinity. Lady macbeth goes on to say that she will unsex herself to kill the king and to change milk with the dangerous drink of gall. The reason she says this is she says that macbeth has a problem to be to nice and would not kill the king. Ladymacbeth says that macbeth himself is too nice to be a king. Macbeth has feminity because he is nice for everything and would maybe be to nice of a king. He does not want to kill the king because macbeth actually likes the current king in the play. Lastly at the start of the play macbeth is described as a great warrior and usually they will have masculinty however in this play the warrior has feminity. The significance of the distinctions are that the girl acts like a man and the man acts like a girl.
1.) I believe that in the first act, Duncan is in control of the play. As the current king of Scotland, he determines who will be king after him. We do not know yet if what the witches say is true or not. Also, Macbeth, Duncan, and the witches are also in control of their own actions. I think that the characters are all individually in control of what they say and do, and fate does not determine what will happen to them.
ReplyDelete2.) The significance of Shakespeare distinguishing between masculinity and femininity is to show how characters can possess traits different than what they seem to be. Also, his use of contrast may foreshadow what will soon happen in the play. For example, Shakespeare may be using contrast to show how something may happen that the reader would not expect to happen.
In the play everything is based on fate but fate is influenced by character actions throughout the play. So bother fate and character actions influence the outcome of the play.
ReplyDeleteIt is to show that men and women are different it is also to show the faults of both sexes
I believe each person is in control. But there fate was decided by the whiches and the siginafance is to show how the difference between men and women. Also to show how some men are more womanly and some women are more manly
ReplyDeleteI think that every person is in control of themselves. There fate was decided the witches that told them what would happen in the future. It shows how women can have there man sides and some men can have feminine sides.
ReplyDelete1: I beleive the people are in control of what happens to their lives, and other people control others fate aka like The choice Macbeth made changed everyone's life around him. to Macbeth the witches are in control, to Lady Macbeth she is in control.
ReplyDeleteIt's all about perspective.
I do not believe everything is predetermined! A Choice is a choice.
2: The significance of Shakespeare distinguishing between masculinity and femininity is to show how characters can possess traits that are different than the sex they are born with. Example one: lady macbeth being this evil women who only looks to benefit her, who can tear a Strong man in power down to strip him of all he is in the " masculinity " form. I don't believe he is trying to show us that Macbeth is womanly I just feel he wants us to see that women are not always these loving, dainty creatures
I think the people are in control of the play. No one person has fate there lives are controlled by them and noone else. Macbeth says himself that he controls his fate not some proficy. Although the characters actions are dictated by what the withces have to say. Macbeth only wants the throne because of his ambition when the witches told him that he would be king.
ReplyDeleteShakespeare uses contrast by creating a very poetic character in Macbeth the way he draws out what he has to say and while Lady Macbeth is very straightforward and is very masculine. After Macbeth kills Duncan he says not all the water in the ocean can wash away what i did and lady macbeth is like eh little bit of water will wash this away.
Each character is in control of his or her own actions, but their decisions are influenced by the witches. Macbeth and Banquo are hesitant to believe what the witches say at first, but once Macbeth becomes Thane of Cowdor, they have second thoughts. It can compare to praying in our society. People who pray rely on a higher power, the same way that Macbeth is trusting the witches.
ReplyDeleteShakespeare shows a distinction between masculinity and femininity to show irony. By having Lady Macbeth show more masculine traits than Macbeth, it provokes irony. Shakespeare displays Macbeth as more of a feminine character; this is ironic because he is the man in the relationship. Lady Macbeth calls her husband a coward, pushing the idea that Macbeth is more feminine than his wife. This is also ironic because at the beginning of the play Macbeth is described as a great warrior and Lady Macbeth contradicts this idea with her comments about Macbeth's lack of masculinity.
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