Tuesday, March 10, 2009
motif
The motif of sleep appears and reappears throughout the play. in the beginning Macbeth Doth murder sleep, Duncan is murdered in his sleep and then Lady Macbeth sleep walks in a disturbed sleep. The way that the characters are sleeping shows the mood of the scene, the murder by Macbeth shows how the play is about to go and then when Lady Macbeth is sleepwalking it shows a turning point in her gilt where she and Macbeth switch roles.
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I do not understand what devin is trying to prove at all with this post. Not only is this one of the most confusing posts but the grammar is not up to par with the standards most americans have. It was a good try all in all but it sucked.
ReplyDeleteGood concept but very short. It is not well expanded on and it feels like something is missing. Also,there is poor use of grammar. This includes spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
ReplyDeleteI think Devin is right about sleep showing the mood of the scene. That's good insight because we always hear about weather and we haven't talked about sleep much in MacBeth.
ReplyDeleteDevin this is an insightful post yet it obviously lacks in many departments. For starters you need to capitalize the letter starting a sentence. You also don't know how to talk in old english language, "Macbeth doth sleep"? Hear you clearly do not know what your talking about. You failed to describe what the mood is in the scene, you pointed it out though. You have some good ideas but for the most part I hate it.
ReplyDeleteOverall this post is very confusing and redundant. The word sleep is used way too many times. Try using the thesaurous next time. Also, you could have talked about the blood that appears on Lady Macbeth's hands when she is sleepwalking. That would help to lengthen your post a little. If only you were actually here to read these comments.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this post, although it is rather short. Many important happenings occur in this play whilst the characters are aslumber. Maybe you should make the post more elaborate, or maybe not, your choice.
ReplyDeleteI personally don't agree with some of your post. Most of the time the primary characters (Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, etc.) aren't even sleeping, so there's little to show in terms of mood. I also don't think that Lady Macbeth's "guilt" is changing so much as how well she is able to repress said guilt. Lastly, I don't think that the murder of Duncan has anything to really do with the other two points you are trying to make, or rather, doesn't stand as it's own but instead would fit with your first point, that "Macbeth Doth murder sleep," as that is describing the result of Duncan's murder.
ReplyDeleteAlso by the way, I completely agree with Brendan.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, I think that you may have been sleeping when you wrote this, in a very disturbed sleep.
ReplyDeleteDevin i really expected more out of you..
ReplyDeleteFirst: Stop slamming Devon, he may have likely came up with something out of the blue just like the rest of you probably did at some point or another. -_-
ReplyDeleteSecond: I agree sleep can be viewed as an idea, an image or symbol for innocence, such as ACT II; murdered in innocent sleep. But I don't think we see this image or idea repeat with the same message enough to merit as a motif.