Thursday, November 20, 2008

7th Chronicle of Macdude

The final scene of Act IV, is all about everything strange, and I am not joking. On one page, ONE PAGE, there were at least four references to strangeness, if that isn't an indicator that strangeness is going down, then I don't know what is. The references are not hard to find, in fact, they jump out of the page.

6th Chronicle of Macdude

The first two of the three scenes of Act IV are pretty devoid of all imagery, actually, the entire Act is lacking in that territory. I suppose the only themes in the first two scenes are planting and illness. The planting is easy to find, usually has something to do with nature, and the illness is the plague that Macdude is currently making. It was hard to pick the themes out of this because there were SO MANY!

5th Chronicle of Macdude

The rest of Act III is a short scene of the witches, and their supposed leader Hecate. What is revealed is that Macdude is pretty much their play thing, and they intend to have as much fun with him until he dies. The theme in this section is darkness, nature, and sleep. They are scattered throughout Hecate's massive monologue.

4th Chronicle of Macdude

The beginning of act 3 was full of bad intentions, and a death of a dear old friend of Macdude. The main plot of this section is the murder of Banquo, who Macdude fears becuase the witches said that his descendants will be kings, and he can't have that happening. So Macdude eventually gets what he wants, but he is then plagued by a vision of Banquo's ghost at the feast, so everyone thinks he is going insane. The themes in play are darkness and illness, which are obvious. Illness is already explained, but darkness represents itself when the Murderers kill Banquo, and the arrival of Banquo's ghost.

3rd Chronicle of Macdude

The start of Act II was full of dark deeds and an evil plot coming into play by Macdude and Lady Macdude. Well to make things short, we witness the assassination of Duncan by Macdude. Now this is a pretty important part of the act, and one of the most important in the story. Because after he kills Duncan, Macdude starts losing it, mental wise. He starts saying, "I swear I heard someone say Macbeth shall sleep no more!". And along with that he says he can't clean the blood from his hands. The themes that are in play here are darkness, sleep, and illness/disease. The darkness of night and the sleep are obvious in the killing of Duncan. And the Illness is what Macdude has to deal with as a result of his actions.The second part of Act II is dealing with everyone finding out Duncan was murdered, while Malcolm escapes to England and Donalbain to Ireland because they fear that they are next on the list. It was a much more bland part as the majority of the fantasitc themes were used in the first half. But the themes that are in play here are planting and strangeness. The planting is scattered throughout through multiple references but the strangeness is easy to tell, due to everyone being very skeptical on the terms of how Duncan was killed, and who did it. So there is a lot of unknown flying around up in the air.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

2nd Chronicle of 'Macdude'

When the second part of this act started, it switched from being mainly about darkness to sleep. The level of increase of sleep references, I swear, I told myself that if I read sleep one more time I would scream, yeah my parents told me to stop because I was scaring them. But there also multiple references to nature, some more darkness, and of course, injury/disease. So at least I stoped screaming.

Monday, November 3, 2008

The First Chronicle of 'Macdude'

Well, I am pretty positive everyone noticed some of the extremely obvious quotes from the beginning that exemplified the seven themes. But the one that really stuck out at the beginning was darkness, with the 'Foul us fair and fair is foul' line. And then again, the line came from witches, you know the thing that created the infamous, and a personal favorite line, 'BURN THE WITCH!!!' and since that line came from it, you can't get any darker.