Thursday, November 20, 2008

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.

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