Scene1
Witches in the early 17th century
In the first scene of Macbeth, we meet three witches. Back in the 17th Century thousands of women were accused of witchery and witchcraft and to be perfectly honest with you, the women were all innocent. This was all part of the male supremacy thing back then, having laws that females couldn’t work. Lord chief justice Anderson noted in 1602: “The land is full of witches… they abound in all places” – not as a symbol or figure of fun, but as a deadly threat to life, livelihood and divine order.
Scene 2
We meet an injured soldier for a battle and he talks about the bravery & swiftness of Macbeth’s skill in the battlefield.
“Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valor’s minion carved out his passage
20Till he faced the slave”
Scene 3
Macbeth got told the future by three witches about him becoming the thana of Cawdor and then the king. And not soon after the witches ross and Angus walk up to Macbeth and explain that he will become the thana of Cawdor.
“why do yoi dress me in borrowed robes “
this means he is saying why are you giving me the roll of some one else and it dosent fit me perfectly
Scene 4
we go to the king’s castle, the king names his son Malcolm as his air. Macbeth doesn’t like this
Let not light see my black and deep desires.The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Scene 5
Make thick my blood. Stop up the access and passage to remorse
This is a metaphor where Lady Macbeth is trying to find strength but hide her ambitions and guilt. In act one scene five Lady Macbeth says “Make thick my blood. Stop up the access and passage to remorse“. by saying thick blood we could see as a sign of courage as the blood is clotting and no bleeding out in fear. Stopping the passage to remorse means she does not want to feel guilty about what she is going to do.
scene 6
lady Macbeth is deceiving duncan that she is happy to let duncan in to her home.
scene 7
at the start, Macbeth was back away from killing Duncan because he has done nothing wrong. Macbeth goes to lady Macbeth to say he can’t kill Duncan and she can not believe him she completely goes off a Macbeth and consists him to kill Duncan Kevin knowing it is the wrong thing to do. lady Macbeth give macbeth a plan to kill ducan
You’re doing a great job of keeping track of some of the key events, language effects and dramatic techniques in Macbeth so far. Great to see you note the dramatic irony in Act 1, Scene 6 – which otherwise feels rather empty as a scene. It’s always good to use those technical terms when you’re describing your understanding of scenes.