Lit ► MacBeth

[Reflection]

I particularly enjoy Lady Macbeth's descent into madness, for some really strange reason.

I do too, personally I think it's because seeing the wife being the villain, much less a COMPLEX female villain, isn't something we see often, even in modern literature; and this is like a billion years old. :I
okay no it's not but i don't remember when shakespeare wrote it, sue me. <_<;

 

[Orion]

Behind only Hamlet, which was solely more awesome because of that one guy, Macbeth is my second favourite Shakespearean play. It was a pleasure to study it in our English class last year.

 

[Reflection]

Macbeth is my second favourite Shakespearean play

midsummer night's dream is where it's at bro

 

[Orion]

Still gotta read that.

Want to get through Othello, The Tempest, and there was another one I forgot...

 

[Square Ninja]

pretty sure this goes in the performing arts section even if you're only reading the play

 

[Ehres]

In high school this was one of the Shakespeare plays we read. Don't mean to be nasty or anything, but I absolutely despised it. Probably because we spent like four months analysing it and writing about seven essays for it and rewriting them over and over and over and over again. I was so gutted when we had to study The Merchant of Venice.

 

[Square Ninja]

In high school this was one of the Shakespeare plays we read. Don't mean to be nasty or anything, but I absolutely despised it. Probably because we spent like four months analysing it and writing about seven essays for it and rewriting them over and over and over and over again. I was so gutted when we had to study The Merchant of Venice.

There's a reason Shakespeare's plays are so studied.

 

[Massive Attack]

pretention in this thread = off the scales

 

[Square Ninja]

pretention in this thread = off the scales

^ irony

 

[Ehres]

There's a reason Shakespeare's plays are so studied.

Yeah, I kinda know that, but that won't dismiss the fact that I didn't enjoy studying them.

 

[Regret]

It was a great story, great ending, one of my favorite Shakespeare :3

 

[Trag]

Reading shakespeare is lame.
((IMO)does anyone else feel this way?)

 

[Annoyance]

I have to be honest sometimes I fell asleep while reading this in English class. I'm not exactly sure why. I enjoyed it when I was awake.

 

[Square Ninja]

Reading shakespeare is lame.
((IMO)does anyone else feel this way?)

...because they're not meant to be solely written works. I bet you'd feel the same way if you read the script of your favorite movie.

 

[Trag]

The screenplay for Rushmore was brilliant and funny.
I just don't like Shakespeare. It's too much effort. I love to read, but Shakespeare's style is just boring to me. The wit that he uses in his plays are humorous to an extent, but it gets very old very quickly.

 

[Square Ninja]

The screenplay for Rushmore was brilliant and funny.
I just don't like Shakespeare. It's too much effort. I love to read, but Shakespeare's style is just boring to me. The wit that he uses in his plays are humorous to an extent, but it gets very old very quickly.

I believe you're confusing Shakespeare with Chaucer.

 

[Wicked]

I love this text, one of Shakespeare's best imo. I still love Othello, I don't know if I could choose between themmm!

Wait! Lady Macbeth is a phyco bitch and I love her. But I don't know.

 

[Kiwi +]

that book was okay. though i did not like memorizing certain lines or whatnot. then having to recite in front of the whole class. lol

 

[Square Ninja]

Wait! Lady Macbeth is a phyco bitch and I love her. But I don't know.

How is she a psycho? I mean, yeah, she is driven mad with guilt by the end, but she's quite sane from beginning until MacDuff's family is assassinated. Lady MacBeth lost her child, and then realizes she is partly responsible to taking away MacDuff's children. She is understandably driven insane at that point.

 

[Wicked]

How is she a psycho? I mean, yeah, she is driven mad with guilt by the end, but she's quite sane from beginning until MacDuff's family is assassinated. Lady MacBeth lost her child, and then realizes she is partly responsible to taking away MacDuff's children. She is understandably driven insane at that point.

Yes, that's true but she ultimately challenges patriarchal control by defying the men in the Elizabethan era. The part when she's pretty much like "If you haven't the balls to kill him, I will!" She shows she’s a psycho man inside.