When Duncan arrives at the castle the music is suspicious and spooky. Lady Macbeth greets him and then we hear thunder so we immediately think “Will Duncan Die?”
When Macbeth is sitting at the table we see a different side to him. He is wondering what to do about his wifes plan, as he is in a very serious thinking ‘mode.’ He can’t think about anything else or talk to anyone else. He is planning to kill Duncan when he is sleeping and he thinks about his wife’s reaction if he didn’t kill Duncan. He tells himself that this could be the be-all-and-end-all! He then tells his wife “we will proceed no further in this business.” His wife tells him that if she had sworn to what he had sworn to, she would even kill her own child. Macbeth thinks hard and says that he WILL kill Duncan. Then we hear the music at the party getting louder and quicker.
Before Macbeth kills Duncan, wee see the effectiveness of the special effects as he hallucinates and sees a dagger in front of him-it is leading him to Duncans bedroom.
Macbeth enters Duncan’s room and his first reaction is to cover Duncan’s mouth and kill him-so that is what he does. Duncan’s crown falls to the floor and we know that Duncan’s kingship is over.
When Macbeth comes back to his chamber he realises that he forgot to leave the daggers in the room, but as he is regretting what he ahs done, he tells his wife “thous’t cant look upon what thy dons’t.” In the book we think that the killings do not change Macbeth but in the video we see that he is deeply regretting what he has done.
Macbeth hears a knock at the door and shouts “wake Duncan with thy knocking” then aside he says “I would if thy coulds’t.” It is Macduff at the door. He is here to waken Duncan but as he comes out of Duncans room he shouts “Horror, Horror.” He has found Duncan’s corpse. To pretend to be in a fury Macbeth kills the two bodyguards, which is ironic because he was the one who killed Duncan. Malcolm and Donaldbain flee as the feel they will be blamed for their father’s murder. Macbeth now feels invincible.
We know that there is something wrong with Macbeth as he starts to feel paranoid about Banquo. He feels suspicious so he hires two murderers to kill him and his son Fleance. We, the audience, now see that evil has taken over Macbeth and he cares about nobody but himself.
When the murderers come back they tell Macbeth that Fleance escaped. Macbeth feels anxious as Fleance is still alive; he still has a chance of becoming King. Macbeth doesn’t want anyone to know that he got murderers to kill Banquo so he disposes of the murderers.
When the Lords are over for dinner, Macbeth looks for a place to sit at the table. It is then that he realises Banquos ghost sitting in his place. Macbeth is horrified. This shows is that Macbeth is haunted by the murders of Duncan and Banquo. The visual effects show us how Macbeth is feeling. Banquos ghost is very pale and white. His face is covered in blood and one of his eyes is closed.
Macbeth goes to see the witches and demands to know more. He is now feeling obsessed by what goes on in his life. He makes fate happen and wont wait as its as if he running his own life i.e. Killing Duncan. Wondering why Macduff wasn’t at his dinner-he is now looking for an excuse to murder people and sends killers over to Macduffs castle to kill everyone.
Macbeth receives a letter warning him “from Birnam Wood to Dunsinane hill.” He declares that he will put on his armour. In the book we find that Macbeth doesn’t act as uptight as he does in the video.
We hear a lot of screaming in the video and Macbeth gets told that his wife has died. His immediate reaction is “she should have died hereafter.” This is a very ignorant reaction as Macbeth has lost everything in his life close to him. He is so involved in his own tyranny that he doesn’t realise that.
Malcolm tells Siward and Macduff to go into the castle and find Macbeth. Siward is the first to fight Macbeth but Macbeth kills him. He declares over the body “thous’t was born of woman.” Macduff stands up and tells him that he was born by caesarean section. Macbeth is horrified by this but vows to fight Macduff. The audience sees that Macbeth doesn’t want to give up his reign as he stops fighting to put his crown back on.
Macduff strikes Macbeth in the arm. He knows now that his kingship is over. He tries to stumble up the stairs but Macduff cut Macbeths head off. The tyrant is now dead.
In the video, Macbeth was portrayed as a man who was unsure of who he was. He had listened to his evil wife and his whole life has changed. I expected Macbeth to be a man who thought only of himself and in the video I saw this was true especially at the time of Lady Macbeths death. For me, Macbeth was not what I had expected
Laura Mc Elroy 12A