I found Act 1 Scene 2 interesting because Ross says that they would let the enemy sign a treaty with them if they paid ten thousand dollars. These days, ten thousand dollars would buy you a Toyota Prius. Back then it must have been very expensive. It just goes to show how inflated the dollar has become. The witches also seem to possess some magical power that allow them to slightly alter the fates of people. This belief or reference to witchcraft might give hint to what people of the Shakespeare era believed in.
Lady Macbeth seems to be the puppet master and Macbeth seems to be the puppet asking witches and his wife for advice on how to be a king. It totally castrates him as the male protagonist.
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Haha, I agree with what you say about Macbeth being castrated as the male protagonist. Do you think his inability to stay firm to his desires is a sign of his weakness or of his humaneness?
ReplyDeleteI'm inclined to think the former, especially as his wife does have so much power over him - with such a person to make decisions for him, he wouldn't need to be strong himself.
Like the observation about the ten thousand dollars (although I'm pretty sure that there is a slight discrepancy between their Scottish dollar or whatever and the dollars we think of today, lol), it's cool how you made the connection from Shakespeare's era to the present.