tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post4543396417728778938..comments2023-07-16T04:02:33.317-06:00Comments on Smith 9H 11-12: Macduff appears; Macbeth disappearsanneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00573450327737964454noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post-77733935860443986702011-09-29T14:43:59.272-06:002011-09-29T14:43:59.272-06:00Shakespeare is showing the true faults of Macbeth ...Shakespeare is showing the true faults of Macbeth by presenting the play from the perspectives of those around him, rather than his own perspective. This allows the audience to better see and understand Macbeth as a tragic hero, who’s flaw is his over-confidence and hubris.<br /><br />Macbeth has lost his privilege to share his thoughts in a soliloquy format because Shakespeare is showing how changed Macbeth has become due to his action and is forcing the audience to “root for” Macduff and Malcolm, rather than the newly-deranged Macbeth.<br /><br />By this point in the play, the audience is supposed to be sympathizing with Macduff and Malcolm. because Macbeth has become a lost cause and is dehumanized by his dealings with the witches and with his Scottish subjects.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post-21504714089005577992011-09-28T23:23:20.690-06:002011-09-28T23:23:20.690-06:00At first, Macbeth appears to be the protagonist- t...At first, Macbeth appears to be the protagonist- the good guy that everyone roots for. As the story progresses, it becomes obvious that he is not such a good guy, and readers are less inclined to stay on his side. As the allegiances of the readers change, so does the perspective of the story. Readers (and viewers) of the play would not stay engaged if the focus stayed on Macbeth, who is widely disliked by now. He has stooped down to the level of betrayal, deceit, and murder, and doesn't deserve the role of protagonist. The new heroes of the story are Malcolm and Macduff.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post-6298539748733544882011-09-28T22:55:11.523-06:002011-09-28T22:55:11.523-06:00Shakespeare shifts his point of view from Macbeth ...Shakespeare shifts his point of view from Macbeth to Macduff, probably because it shows both sides of the story. We know up to this point how Macbeth feels about life and his situation. To make it a true and complete story, we need both points of view. This helps comprehension and understanding of the play. We also see how both sides are preparing to go to war with each other. Macbeth is the murderer, and we do not want to see him very much anymore.<br />Macbeth has lost his privilege to deliver long monologues to the audience because of all his evil deeds. Humans do not tend to want to listen to the violent, murderous individuals, but to the kind, virtuous ones that have had a great tragedy. Macduff, in this case, is that person, with his family killed and his country in wreckage and his world shattered.<br />At this point in the story, we feel sorry for Macduff and Malcolm for surviving through Macbeth’s brutal attacks to their lives. As I said above, we as humans do not like to listen to evil things, but to good things and people. We also feel that with Macbeth’s murders, he has lost the right to be felt sorry for. Therefore, we feel sorry for Macduff and not Macbeth.<br /><br />*(Sorry this was so late- I had band)*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post-43170154883106671872011-09-28T22:42:20.006-06:002011-09-28T22:42:20.006-06:00I believe that Shakespeare is letting us see the p...I believe that Shakespeare is letting us see the perspective of other characters eyes because it gives the reader a better understanding of what's going on. Before in the previous acts we were only able to see Macbeth's point of view. We saw what he was feeling and thinking before and after murdering Duncan, Banquo and Macduff's family. With these switches of who's perspective we are looking at weather it's Ross, Malcom, Macduff or any other characters we get to see what they think of all the things that are going on in Scotland and what they think of Macbeth. <br /><br />Macbeth has lost his privileges of delivering soliloquies because first of all most of the internal conflict in the play is gone. Macbeth has already killed Banquo, and Duncan so he no longer needs to ponder about his feelings and thoughts about the murders. Also after seeing that Macbeth is ruthless enough to kill Macduff's family without filling any guilt or remorse, we already know that he's lost his sanity and is just becoming more and more sadistic. So a soliloquy is not needed to tell us his feelings any more.<br /><br />After hearing Malcom and Macduff's testimonies in act 4 I feel like we the audience are supposed to be feeling sympathy for Macduff, Malcom and everyone else Macbeth has hurt. As of act 4 a lot of people are beginning to think that Macbeth Is a tyrant. We can see that the witches and Hecate's plans have worked out for they have made Macbeth over confident, ruthless and over all a horrible person. After seeing him kill his kin, a very good friend and children the audiences sympathy is defiantly leaning toward Macduff, Malcom and the people against Macbeth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post-22273164107398825562011-09-28T22:02:40.356-06:002011-09-28T22:02:40.356-06:00I believe that Shakespeare is showing us the persp...I believe that Shakespeare is showing us the perspective of the story from other characters other that Macbeth because Shakespeare has shifted the perspective of the entire story from Macbeth wanting more and more power to a gathering of fleeing men to fight back the ruthless Macbeth. He wants to expose a different side of Macbeth that he couldn't do through Macbeth himself.<br /><br />Like Madison said, Macbeth's gruesome actions are not the focal point to shape the entire story around; however the idea the effects of the actions Macbeth's sadistic ways have on the other characters is now the focus of the story. The dilemnas that Macbeth has brought upon himself are now not of interest to the play and now the weight of the resurgence of the fleeing men has increased the need for explaination of the planning of the retaking over of Scotland. Because we know already of Macbeth's frustrations, we don't need to keep being reminded by him of the known situation. <br /><br />I feel that we were supposed to display sympathy towards Macbeth within the first 3 acts, but the sympathy has shifted to Macduff and Fleance's family because their families have been killed off by Macbeth's lust for unchallenged power. They are being directly placed on the frontline for the slaughterhouse and they are still trying to retake the kingdom for the good of the Scottish people. Therefore, we, as the audience, should be showing sympathy towards Macduff and Fleance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post-70028595077511104712011-09-28T21:56:43.744-06:002011-09-28T21:56:43.744-06:00I believe that Shakespeare is showing us the story...I believe that Shakespeare is showing us the story from the perspective of other characters because they are becoming the new heroes. To me, the beginning half of the book was about Macbeth's descent from being a hero, to becoming a phsycopathic, power-obssessed human being. Macbeth started out as an incredibly brave and noble character, but now that he has become the pure evil in the story, Shakespeare focuses on a new good. In general, any story will typically show the plot from the perspective of the good character. Now that Macbeth is the pure enemy, we must focus on a good character that must attempt to save the day. In this case, the hero is Macduff. An audience will almost always stick to the side of the hero, so hearing long speeches from Macbeth would not be very appealing to them. <br />We are supposed to be feeling sorry for Macduff at this point because he is made out to be a very pure and heroic character. After his family got murdered by Macbeth, we build our hatred toward Macbeth and our sympathy towards Macduff.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post-27096939719248355242011-09-28T21:40:49.195-06:002011-09-28T21:40:49.195-06:00Through the first three acts the audience gets to ...Through the first three acts the audience gets to know how Macbeth thinks, feels and acts. We discovered that Macbeth would not stop at anything so he can be king at any price, even murder. In Act four, we are seeing the other side of the story, the people Macbeth has hurt. We are starting to see that Macbeth may be in danger of losing his throne. This is an important piece of the story and helps us understand the play better as a whole.<br />Macbeth has murdered King Duncan and his two guards, as well as hiring the murderers to kill Lady Macduff, Macduff’s children, and Banquo. These are some of the most horrible deeds possible. Shakespeare is no longer letting Macbeth be as involved in the story because of what he has done. He wants to make a point by showing the audience how it has affected others and what they will do to get back at Macbeth.<br />Currently we should be sympathetic toward the people who Macbeth has hurt such as Macduff, and Fleance. We need to see how it is affecting them because Macbeth has hurt them and their families just so he can be king.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post-61290211502442318602011-09-28T21:33:13.089-06:002011-09-28T21:33:13.089-06:00I believe that Shakespeare is showing the movement...I believe that Shakespeare is showing the movement of the story through characters other than Macbeth because he is trying to show a shift in the feeling of the story. It went from him focusing on the fact that we should feel sympathy for Macbeth to us having to that we should see a different point of view and that we should feel sympathetic to Macduff and Malcolm. It might also be the fact that he is foreshadowing something happening to Macbeth. When a writer is writing around the whole perspective of one character, the audience will be more on the side of that character. Such as when Macbeth goes on his rants about his troubles and when he is thinking about himself and maintaining power, we feel that since he is expressing his beliefs about something we know little about, we will believe it and take his side. By eliminating those rants, we don't have that connection or sharing of beliefs. Instead, we hold the ideals of Macduff and Malcolm. So by shifting our connection to Macduff, he may be shifting away from the sympathy for Macbeth therefore when and if he kills him off, we will see why and think it just, thus delivering the entire message of the story. If we still shared the beliefs of Macbeth, then if he killed him off, then we would think it in another way, and thus twisting the entire message of the story.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post-79448270247553596212011-09-28T21:23:55.321-06:002011-09-28T21:23:55.321-06:00By seeing different perspectives we can get a bett...By seeing different perspectives we can get a better handle on the book and what is happening. Also by letting us see Macbeth through other peoples eyes it gives us a better understanding on how ruthless of a leader Macbeth really is. We get to see what the common men and women of Scotland think about their leader and the things he is doing to stay in his position.<br /> Macbeth lost his privileges to ponder his thoughts to the audience simply because he has been doing that the whole book. The audience already knows what and how Macbeth is thinking. Now new characters need to be introduced so we can see how they are feeling about Macbeth and the way he chooses to rule his country. <br /> I think as the audience we should be feeling sympathy towards the people of Scotland. They are under a new vicious rule before they can even comprehend what is going on with their country. We also need to feel sympathy for MacDuff and Malcom, because they have been effected deeply by Macbeth's rule. They have lost their loved ones and they don't know how to get their homeland out of turmoil.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post-50907634722219347062011-09-28T21:13:21.536-06:002011-09-28T21:13:21.536-06:00I believe that Shakespeare is showing us different...I believe that Shakespeare is showing us different perspectives through other characters' eyes for just that reason; to show us a new perspective! If the audience is getting one-sided opinions and thoughts, they cannot be exposed to how others feel about the one character's actions. The audience should take in what Macbeth is feeling and his own reasoning behind what he does, and also how Macduff,Malcolm, Ross, and others are feeling and maybe even how they justify things such as running from Macbeth to make war against him.<br /><br />I believe that Macbeth has lost his "privilege" of delivering long soliloquies to the audience because the whole entire play has shifted in it's viewpoint. At first, the play was about a young brave man- tragic, misguided, deluded, and confused. This young man has rapidly evolved and now has a few more alarming traits: he's bloodthirsty, wildly ambitious, brutal, suspicious, jealous, ruthless, and power-hungry. Now that Macbeth has turned somewhat mad, the focus is on taking down that which the beginning of the play had built up.<br /><br />At this point in the play, I believe that we are meant to feel much more sympathy towards Macduff. One thing after another hit this poor guy: he had to flee a tyrant to save his country, the man that he thought was to be a great leader "confesses" to multiple sins and awful faults and then admits that it was just a test, and his whole entire family has just been brutally slaughtered through Macbeth's orders! Who wouldn't feel bad for him? Now he is even beginning to take on the role of tortured, grief-stricken man who is still somehow determined and full of bravery, committed to his noble cause. He's almost swoon-worthy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post-72120676732719709552011-09-28T21:12:53.133-06:002011-09-28T21:12:53.133-06:00Why do you think Shakespeare is showing us action ...Why do you think Shakespeare is showing us action through the eyes and comments of characters other than Macbeth?<br /><br />I think that Shakespeare is letting us see what’s going on through the eyes of other characters. This way we can understand how the other characters such as Macduff and Malcom feel about what’s going on and what they plan to do about it. This is also an example of one of my points from my essay which is: Literature lets us see through other perspectives.<br /><br />Why has Macbeth lost his privilege of delivering long soliloquies to the audience in which he ponders his dilemmas?<br /><br />I believe that Macbeth’s long monologs have begun to shorten because he is simply going bonkers. He must be insanely stressed out and is becoming a little sadistic as well with this ceaseless murdering, which I think causes him to get into a mood of killing but then once that his over he regains his composure and feels the immense guilt of what his done. <br /><br />Who are we, the audience, supposed to be feeling sympathy for at this point?<br /><br />This is a tough one, I really think it’s a debatable subject. Macbeth has been the main character throughout the story line and I’ll feel like most of us have come to know him well which may cause us to root for him. This is countered by his murdering which makes us want to root against him. I personally still feel sympathy for Macbeth, not because he’s the main character, but because he has become so insane and crazed by the thought of the witches that he doesn’t have true happiness.SamR2015https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450275989205018651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post-50033975738562188322011-09-28T21:08:55.348-06:002011-09-28T21:08:55.348-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post-50138265572407377022011-09-28T21:04:26.468-06:002011-09-28T21:04:26.468-06:00Since the author is giving us, the readers, more t...Since the author is giving us, the readers, more than one perspective of the story, it allows us to get all of the story and understand it better. If the entire story was written from Macbeth's point of view, we would never have the opportunity to see what is happening behind the scenes with Malcom and Macduff in England and how they are building an army. In some ways, Shakespeare is purposely not showing anything about what is going on with Macbeth, so that we don't know how Macbeth is preparing for war and how he is handling the whole situation.<br />I hypothesize that the reason for the loss of Macbeth's privilege to many lines is because the reader doesn't really care what Macbeth has to say anymore. I know I personally, just want Macduff to finally get his revenge on Macbeth. He has lost his his big part because he's not where the action is. Macduff and Malcom are where all of the action is taking place. The reader doesn't care what Macbeth is thinking, we just want him gone because all he has done is pure evil.<br />I think that the way the story is set up now, that we are supposed to feel sympathy for Macduff because his children and wife have been killed by people hired by Macbeth and we are supposed to take his side and want Macbeth killed for all he has done. In that case, I think that Shakespeare is being very effective with his writing because I feel sympathy for MAcduff and want to get rid of Macbeth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post-47143508734116119632011-09-28T20:34:55.659-06:002011-09-28T20:34:55.659-06:00Shakespeare is showing us others perspectives beca...Shakespeare is showing us others perspectives because the audience needs to know how others feel about Macbeth being king. I think Shakespeare is also trying to show the characters conversations, because all of them are about Macbeth, and how terrible of a ruler he is, and why it's so strange that all these people are dying. <br /><br />I think the reason Macbeth hasn't been delivering long soliloquies is because he has gone mad, he is caught up in ruling Scotland, and Macbeth is planning out the murderers of important people who are in the way of his leadership.<br /><br />I think that we as the audience are supposed to feel sympathy for Macbeth because everyone hates him, and they are leaving Scotland to flee from his ruling. People may feel bad that nobody wants him as a ruler, but at the same time Shakespeare doesn't put him in scene 4 a lot because he wants others to also show sympathy for Malcolm and Macduff because they would be better kings then Macbeth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post-56860041943163679832011-09-28T20:26:54.798-06:002011-09-28T20:26:54.798-06:00I think that Shakespeare is showing us action thro...I think that Shakespeare is showing us action through other characters eyes so that we can better understand their perspectives. We get to see the situation through their eyes instead of watching the story go by through Macbeth. I also think that when Shakespeare does this we can better understand how vicious Macbeth really is. We get to see how he directly affects people and their grief and sorrow over his terrible deeds.<br /> <br /> I think the reason Shakespeare stopped giving Macbeth long monologues was because he started to become more predictable and we also needed a perspective change. It can be very boring to see the same character talking over and over again about their same issues. It is nice to get a different point of view.<br /><br />I think that no one is supposed to feel sympathy for Macbeth now. He has become a bloodthirsty creep. He even has gone so far as to kill women and children! It would be the equivalent of someone today feeling bad for a murderer because they were mentally unstable. It rarely happens. Macbeth is not supposed to be someone who others feel bad for; he is the one receiving all the negativity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post-16849587984345113852011-09-28T20:22:39.166-06:002011-09-28T20:22:39.166-06:00I think that Shakespeare tells hero stories just l...I think that Shakespeare tells hero stories just like any other author. In other hero stories we mainly focus on the heroes. We watch how batman uses his technology to beat the bad guys, and we watch how the fantastic four come up with different ideas to use their powers to beat their enemies. Now I think we are watching how the real heroes, Macduff and Malcolm, come up with a plan to beat the bad guy who is now Macbeth. I think he has lost his privilege to speak about his problems because I think almost all of his problems are just about gone because the apparitions have given him so much over confidence. I think we are supposed to feel sympathy for Macduff because he is trying to do the right thing and his whole family just got murdered and now he has no children and no wife, I feel bad for him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post-7490805081448543112011-09-28T20:16:06.024-06:002011-09-28T20:16:06.024-06:00I think that Macbeth is left out of this scene bec...I think that Macbeth is left out of this scene because he wants us to see the other side of the story. Macbeth is a tyrant, and so far we have mostly seen the story from his point of view. We know see the other side of the story from the vies point of people that are against Macbeth.<br /><br />I think that Macbeth has lost his privilege of giving long soliloquies he has cone mostly crazy. Many things that he says don't make sense, so the reader might get confused.<br /><br />I think that we as the readers are supposed to feel sympathy for all the people that Macbeth has hurt. Macbeth is a tyrant, and if we can feel sympathy for the characters that Macbeth has hurt, especially Macduff who had his wife and children killed, then we can see connections that we couldn't see before.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post-23472449892378974022011-09-28T20:11:02.020-06:002011-09-28T20:11:02.020-06:00I believe Shakespeare is showing us action through...I believe Shakespeare is showing us action through the eyes and comments of characters other than Macbeth to allow us readers to gain many different viewpoints. In the beginning, Macbeth mainly did all the talking, he was the Main Character. Now, we are getting to see the other sides of things. It gives everyone different perspectives, which allows us to understand the play better and analyze from many different angles as well. Initially, I think everyone was Pro-Macbeth, Anti-Macduff. The roles have shifted dramatically.<br />My theory for the reason that Shakespeare has decided to stop letting Macbeth drone on and on about his issues that are brought upon by himself, and beckon other characters for their input is the same that a teacher does not let one student comment about something the entire class period. After a little while, everyone understands or at the very least gets the gist of what the person is saying. It’s time for a new perspective, a fresh idea.<br />I feel that the audience is expected to feel sympathy for Macbeth right now. He recently has experienced a shift in power. Before, he was the hero everyone favored and admired; now he is a villain who everyone feels leery about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post-24638195151868142262011-09-28T20:05:54.823-06:002011-09-28T20:05:54.823-06:00Shakespeare, I believe, is keeping Macbeth quite f...Shakespeare, I believe, is keeping Macbeth quite for a little while because he wants to show all of the damage that one simple man has caused. He hasn't just taken away lives, he has ruined the ones still living, such as Macduff losing his whole family. Through eyes other than Macbeth we, as readers, get to see the evil and highly certifiable Macbeth that is now ruling and as Grant said, destroying Scotland all together.<br /><br />Shakespeare has taken away Macbeth's privileges to long soliloquies because he has convinced our brains of who Macbeth actually is. Then after hearing his side of the story, we get to see the effects and responses other's have towards him. <br /><br />Obviously we should be feeling a deep sympathy for Macduff right now. After just finding out that, not just some, but all of his family has been brutally murdered; how could you not feel absolutely terrible for him? I have no sympathy towards Macbeth on the other hand, because he has gone completely savage: the extremity of killing women and children.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post-80590010259066628162011-09-28T19:58:36.162-06:002011-09-28T19:58:36.162-06:00I think that Shakespeare is leaving Macbeth absent...I think that Shakespeare is leaving Macbeth absent from this scene because without hearing the whole story from Macbeth’s point of view we finally get to hear how Macbeth’s ruling as king is affecting the people. When Macbeth is the person mostly dominating the scene we don’t hear much from others. In Act 4 we hear how Macbeth’s reign is affecting Macduff and families back in Scotland. We hear from Macduff that Scotland is in complete mayhem with Macbeth as king. If this was another act where Macbeth had a big part we would never here about how much the country and its people are really suffering because Macbeth would never admit that what he is doing is bad.<br /> I think Macbeth lost his privilege of giving long monologues because they were always just about killing people and how he could work around the witches’ prophecies and stay king. His monologues were always about me, me, me. Macbeth never cared about anyone’s well-being but his. I think that this is why Macbeth didn’t get the privilege of a monologue in this act.<br /> As the audience I think that we should feel sorry for Macduff. His family was just slaughtered by their country’s king whom is supposed to help, defend, and protect the people not hire murders to kill them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post-4452976643687407192011-09-28T19:44:27.531-06:002011-09-28T19:44:27.531-06:00I think that Shakespeare is showing us the action ...I think that Shakespeare is showing us the action of the play through the eyes and comments of characters other than Macbeth because it is important to see the other side of the story. Through Macbeth’s eyes we see that he is constantly killing and is being overcome by evil, yet still contains some good and remorse. However, through others’ eyes we view Macbeth as a monstrous tyrant who is destroying Scotland. By doing this, Shakespeare has literally altered our viewpoint of the story so that we now see the good side as we did before, when Macbeth wasn’t on a killing spree.<br /><br />I believe that Macbeth has lost his privilege of delivering long soliloquies to the audience in which he ponders his dilemmas because he is now a nearly completely corrupted ruler who (answering question three also) is not supposed to receive our sympathy. Shakespeare has crafted this play so that we begin to hate Macbeth and do not pity him and his dilemmas that he goes through. As Macbeth stated before, “I am in blood stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er” (Shakespeare 3.4.136-138). Macbeth is beyond the point of return and is turning evil, so we now pity those on which he has inflicted pain such as Macduff, whose family was slaughtered by Macbeth’s doing, and Fleance whose father was also murdered by Macbeth’s doing. Macduff, Fleance, and everybody else against Macbeth should now be viewed by us as the “good guys”.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post-23449505687967698812011-09-28T19:28:55.654-06:002011-09-28T19:28:55.654-06:00Shakespeare is showing us actions through other pe...Shakespeare is showing us actions through other people because we can see what other people are dong, thinking, and feeling. It is another point of view that helps us better understand what is going to happen. This is an insight on what is happening outside of Macbeth’s mind. We now know what others truly think of him. What Shakespeare is doing is the same as when the main character in a TV show is not in the room and we see her friends talking about stuff that they would never say in front of the main character. This is the same thing, but in literature. Macbeth doesn’t rant anymore because Act 4 wasn’t about his dilemmas and thoughts, its about other peoples thoughts and dilemmas about Macbeth. Macbeth’s dilemmas have already been ranted to us and any more contemplating about what has already has happened would be too much. This is a scene to make the readers think twice about whose side to take. Currently I am feeling sympathetic for Macduff because his wife and son where killed by his own king‘s orders, and overall life isn’t going so well. Also I feel sympathy for everyone else who had been negatively affected by Macbeth (which is practically everyone in the play).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post-50031291323968836632011-09-28T19:23:52.575-06:002011-09-28T19:23:52.575-06:00Shakespeare begins to tell the story through the o...Shakespeare begins to tell the story through the other characters because he wants us to get a perspective of someone other than Macbeth, specifically those opposed to him. Up to this point, we have primarily only observed the thought process of Macbeth, giving us a biased opinion to what is the "right" or sensible decision. Starting in Act 4, Shakespeare exposes the opposite take as well.<br />The fact that Macbeth is has fewer and fewer monologues symbolizes the loss of his ability to make wise decisions and be rational in his thinking. Now that he no longer ponders over the validity of his actions, it shows the toll his brutality has taken on his personality. The evil that has taken over has caused him to become less human, and instead behave impulsive and paranoid.<br />As stated before, attention is taken away from Macbeth because Shakespeare intends for the audience to lose the connection with him, and instead feel for the other side. When we begin to understand more of Macduff and Malcolm, we can see why they would resent Macbeth. Also, since Macbeth's intentions have not been discussed for a while, the readers start to forget his emotions. Slowly, the previous, compassionate view toward Macbeth fades into the sadistic picture painted by the descriptions of Macduff and Malcolm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post-63425320699905251602011-09-28T19:23:07.980-06:002011-09-28T19:23:07.980-06:00Shakespeare is giving us the perspectives of chara...Shakespeare is giving us the perspectives of characters other than Macbeth because for three straight scenes. So act four gives the reader a new look on the whole situation. Up to this point Macbeth has us convince that his way was the right way, but now we see the other side of the story, where the majority of the people stand. It also makes the reader stop and think about what is really right. It makes Macbeth's bad reputation come out whrn you couldnt see it before.<br /> I think the reason Macbeth has lost his right to speak because like Macy said above that we can't really trust what Macbeth says now that we have heard two sides to the same story. When we hear the second side it makes Macbeth look worse and worse. Also we have had three scenes of Macbeth talking about how awesome he is, we just want a break, hear about some new people to make the book more interesting.<br /> The person we have sympathy for at this moment is Malcolm. We never really knew more than that he just ran away to England, but during his conversation with Ross we have discovered the real Malcolm. We may have had respect for Macbeth before but now Malcolm make Macbeth look like the villain he is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1277813007865744192.post-23108794065225652442011-09-28T19:16:42.316-06:002011-09-28T19:16:42.316-06:00I think Shakespeare is showing us the perspectives...I think Shakespeare is showing us the perspectives of the other characters because Macbeth has been the star of every act up until now. He wanted the audience to have the opportunity to experience scenes without the influence of Macbeth, so that we can have sympathy for other characters.<br /><br />Macbeth has lost his privilege of delivering long soliloquies to the audience in which he ponders his dilemmas because we have heard his side of the story. It’s helpful to be able to get the other characters’ views of what has been happening in the story.<br /><br />I think, as an audience, that we are supposed to feel sympathy for Macduff because his family was just murdered due to Macbeth. This event also contributes to the story because it causes Macduff to feel enraged and yearn for revenge against Macbeth, which makes the play all the more interesting.MaddieM2015https://www.blogger.com/profile/08513748636735421935noreply@blogger.com