Prospero and Ariel Essay

 She just extremitys to be. This is why I privation maam Macbeth to carry her perceptions quite clearly when she is telling the spirits to stockpile her emotional ways. I want her to be yelling these things and perhaps crying as she says to take wholly these things away from her. As soon as she says Come, you spirits I want her to drop to her knees with her commits spread out above her head, beckoning them to come along to her. Lastly when she says to cry, Holy, hold, I want her to just cry silently attri neverthelesse herself tightly, her head plenty.This would get intrigued both Elizabethan listening as well up as today all(prenominal) last(predicate) pacegh she wants to be apart of vicious spirits and garbage down somewhat nonpareil who in Elizabethan times would beget been chosen from God, which would be a sin above all sins, not only to kill, not only to trust the witches but to kill someone appointed from God would be blasphemy. But she would still co nfound emotion showing that she is still human. After this soliloquy I want blurriness to immerse her to represent the hatred that is folding around her and I want the lights to go out.When the lights come back on I want her to be in perfect condition, like it had never had happened. This is when Macbeth will enter. In this maiden section of the play t present are certain words I need the actress to put extra wildness on. We do that brothel keeper Macbeth is controlling, evil, power-hungry, and a temptress. This is why during this scene I want her to say Thus thou must do, if thou provoke it hissing the words, and grinning slightly to herself. This represents how she is plotting her evil ways to kill Duncan.Also when she says bear welcome in your eye, your stack, your clapper look like the innocent flower But be the ophidian under t I want her to have one establish on Macbeths face tracing everywhere it and another hand around his waist, very close into him. I want her t o nonplus ophidian loud and very clear for it is very important. Elizabethans are very ghostly as noted before, but the snake is a representation of the serpent in Adam and Eve. Where it deceives Eve and generates her eat the apple. Elizabethans would be fearful of snakes and they would have unconsolable and evil aspects associated with this animal.Which is why their must be great emphasis on it. I do this to emphasize her control over Macbeth, by touching him and to show him how to manipulate his face, but as well how she uses her sexuality to make him do so. noblewoman Macbeth has the last words in this scene, this shows her power over Macbeth and how she is the one leading. Now Shakespeare tends to keep the last lines a rhyming pair to summarize the scene. This one though does not fit this pattern, it ends with Leave all the rest to me. This is to emphasize that noblewoman Macbeth is going to be the one to kill Duncan.This execration is very important for she overly cu ts off when Macbeth says We will enunciate promote, this shows how wench Macbeth is controlling Macbeth she is giving him no choice. This sex actship bond would have also intrigued Elizabethans at this time. Not only was she condemning herself to eternal eternal damnation she also was being the man in a relationship. Woman Elizabethans would have been thought to just smile and give manpower children, plot of land grooming and cleaning. Lady Macbeth defies this view on woman, for she controls her husband and tells him exactly what to do.While in todays society this would be almost considered normal that she had some power in the relationship. Later on in the play we foresee a gradual change in Lady Macbeth. The scene where I feel there is the most contradictory to what we first see of her is in act 5 scene One. In this scene we see Lady Macbeths mental state be torn and how she goes into madness. She is sleep walking, and envisage of the murder of Duncan. Before Lady Macbet h even enters the stage, she is already being talked close behind her back, by people who had once been a lower situation then her.This agilely shows Lady Macbeth has lost her status, and control. When Lady Macbeth enters the room, she is holding a cadmium. This is very significant because it shows how Lady Macbeth is afraid of the dark, and in this case the dark is associated with evil. For this reason I want Lady Macbeth to be holding the candle very close to her bosom and protecting it from the wind or any(prenominal) draft. She must seem very close to it and must not allow it out of her sight. When she says Hell is murky I want her to say it super slowly with her eye closed and her face in pain while her hands wrapped around herself.I pay close circumspection to this because it flat shows how Lady Macbeth who once did not care of hell, is now panic-stricken of it. I want her hands wrapped around her for this particular sentence to show how she is alone and vulnerable a s well as her eyeball closed. This further proves that she does have a conscience. This scene is very significant to the hearing to see such a change in Lady Macbeth. I would need Lady Macbeth to not look at anyone straight in the eyes she would have to seem in another world. For she is, she is dreaming.Her hair would plausibly be tousled to further indicate her inability to keep up with reality, slowing falling into her own little world. We see her trying to arrest the blood off her hands (which in reality is not there), we know this for the gentlewoman says wipeing her hands I have known her stick in this a quarter of an hour and Lady Macbeth says Yet heres a spot. By spot Lady Macbeth refers to Duncans blood on her hands and in her mind she cannot get it off, its a stain on her conscience. Her conscience is controlling her, doing exactly what she didnt want to happen in the first place.She precious control she wanted to be able to do this without caring about the death of m en yet she goes into madness from doing it. This part is also in straight relation to when Macbeth killed Duncan, for he had said that there was blood on his hands, forget all great Neptunes ocean wash this blood readable from my hand? But at that point of time Lady Macbeth had taken it literally, and told him to wash his hands, A little water clears us of this deed. While now she now sees how it never goes away no guinea pig how much she scrubs. Lady Macbeth feels as if she is a murderer and what she has done cannot be undone.But also to this self hatred and regret she also believes she has do a monster as well. She says Thane of Fife had a wife where is she now? Shakespeare draws immediate attention to this sentence for its a rhyme. Shakespeare is emphasizing how Lady Macbeth knows Macbeth killed her, and that this cleanup had also helped with the tearing of her conscience. She feels that she created this beast and that it is her fault that the wife of the thane of fife is dead. I want her to say these words shaking her head and crying, to show how much that this one death has affected her more because she did not want her to die.During this scene Lady Macbeth now speaks in prose. This shows how Lady Macbeth has a loss of control and status. It is also very highly punctuated this forces the actress to speak in a broken fashion, which reflects Lady Macbeths state of mind. I want the actress to embrace this and speak with loads of different paces and pitches. I dont want her to speak with anything flowing, every word should b disjointed almost, especially when she repeats what she said in the early scenes such as Fie, my lord fie A soldier and afeard and also Heres the smell of the blood still all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.Oh Oh Oh , which related to what Macbeth had said before Will all great Neptunes ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incardine, Making the un ripened one red. I perceive this as a very grim scene. The Doctors last words in the scene make us pity Lady Macbeth. Elizabethans would have seen Lady Macbeth almost as a devil, today even we would have seen Lady Macbeth particularly evil, but in this scene this perception of her transforms into pity and sorrow for her. We see her being tortured by her scathe doing.The Doctor says Still keep eyes upon her, he talking about God to take care of her and to free her of her wrong doing and make her soul at peace. The Doctor knows what she has done, for Lady Macbeth in her dream state is spilling the murder. Even with this he asks for God to look down upon her and protect her from herself. These lines he speaks would have to be much emphasized with a lot of sadness in his tone of voice. Perhaps after his lines Lady Macbeth could drop to her knees and start frantically rubbing her hands with desperation to further make the audience have a touch of heart for Lady Macbeth.All though I t hink todays audience might only slightly pity Lady Macbeth, while in Elizabethans times not at all. Elizabethans would be glad that Lady Macbeth is in pain and is suffering from her wrong doing, and they would of thought that if you do evil, God will punish you.