Thunder and lightning crash above a Scottish moor

It was storming out that night and it struck the moor and the three witches come about. I picked this because it stood out when I read it.

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth enter as king and queen

They are the main people in the play. They both have control over the play.

At a military camp near his palace at Forres

King Duncan talks to a wounded captain for news about the Scots’ battle. The wounded helped Duncan’s son.

Sanuel -- Airbourne Dagger

The Third thing I thought was Odd was the Floating Dagger in front Of Macbeth. This symbolizes that Macbeth really doesn’t want to kill Duncan but he has to because the dagger disappears. Macbeth has to though because he wants to be the king.

Samuel -- Pop Goes the Ghost

The Ghost of Banquo. Banquo was murdered and then his ghost appears at the Dinner Table like nothing happened. I thought it was weird because The Ghost popped out exactly when the whole table was talking about him. It’s like Banquo left but was still there through the whole play, just an entity making an entrance whenever he pleased. It was just odd because no ghost ever does that, they all tend to hide in secret, f they even exist.

Samuel -- No Typical Witches

The first oddity of Macbeth was the Three Ugly Witches. They seemed to know what the future looked like for Macbeth when he didn’t. I thought it was weird how there were 3. What does the number three symbolize? In other Stories like Hercules there were 3 witches. Also the Witches talked in Unison and knew exactly what to say to Macbeth like they were all one person. They were also burning the cauldron like how typical witches do. I strongly believe that William Shakespeare made this a theme for all witches after he made this play.

Brent -- Freaky Banquo

The third thing that I think that was odd about the play was the ghost of Banquo. I think that ghosts are a weird thing probably no  matter what time period you are in. Ghosts are really kind of a freaky thing. I think that they would frighten many people if they had an encounter with one. Some people believe that ghosts are not even real though. Even if you do not believe in them, the thought of them is still a little startling. The ghost of Banquo was definitely an odd part of the play.

Brent -- Suicide is Odd.

I also believe that it is a bit odd how Lady Macbeth killed herself. I don't think that it is very common, even now, for someone to kill themselves. Maybe she felt guilty for being so controlling over her husband or maybe she just hated her life that much that she felt the need to take her own life. Either way, I think that it is quite odd that she killed herself. It is pretty rare for somebody to do that to themselves. 

Brent -- My pants

I think that one of the oddities of the play is that there are witches. It just seems a little weird to me that there would be witches in this play. I think that back in the day, talking about witches and stuff like that may have been a little bit more common. I think that anything about a witch could really freak someone out or scare them at least a little bit. I think that witches can really strike fear into someone's eyes. I know that if i saw one i may potentially crap my pants.

Tyler -- Symbols of Macbeth

Blood

Blood is always closely linked to violence, but over the course of Macbeth blood comes to symbolize something else: guilt. Death and killing happen in an instant, but blood remains, and stains. At the times when both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth feel most guilty, they despair that they will never be able to wash the blood, their guilt, and from their hands.

Nature

Throughout Shakespeare's Macbeth, the weather plays an important role. The rebelling nature of wind and lightning indicates the disruption within the natural order of society. It makes it seem as if the weather is upset with Macbeth actions. In many Shakespearean plays, including this one, and rebelling nature shows a departure from accepted political and moral order.

Witches

The witches symbolize the following: (1) They symbolize the darkness and depravity of the human soul, the part of the soul that bends itself toward evil and darkness; (2) The witches influence the external forces that tempt humans; (3) More specifically, the witches symbolize the darkness that resides in Macbeth's heart; (4) The witches are an outward manifestation of Macbeth's wickedness and the horrible acts he commit

Dead Bird Man

There were no restraints when dealing harm to someone with the extent of death to add to the case. A lot of people were victims of multiple accounts of murder. Vicious murders at that.  Banquo was one of the innocent characters in the story and he just got taken out like that. Also revolving around the end of the story, “Lady Macbeths” child more or less got stab to death just by calling their intruder a foul term. The order in which people are to die is rather off balance to my outlook on things. Usually main characters do not get mercilessly killed around the beginning of a play nor do little children. Though maybe that’s what makes it different from the others.

Bird Man Roosts in Moving Trees

One of the things that estranged me was the way how one another placed blame on the other person with a false accusation. While following up on the war a lot of soldiers never really trusted any of their friendlies all that well. With all the lies already in the air, believing one or two more fibs should’ve been rather relevant to them.  Now what to really be concerning to them was the clever ways that their opposition had figured out new strategies to approach them, rather than face to face. By example, when the assault on the castle took place, the attackers used the forest as a visible disguised on temporarily eluded their opponents. Once the one of the guards noticed the strange anomaly taking place, he acted fast and took it up with his commanding officer. The reaction from his officer was less than expected. Simply, if the soldier was lying about such things as a “moving forest” he would be casted as a liar and sentenced to death… That’s a little too strict in my book.

Bird Man -- Birthin' a Babe

Considering the fact that if a child was born from the womb of a female, the child was casted as being a cursed hatred. Given that point, how else is a new born supposed to be created?  It sure as heck isn’t going to be the male figure taking up the position... no way is that possible. The understanding of that legislation is rather difficult to understand. I mean, there were more made up beliefs back then than there are in today’s children novels. So if they assume that life was born from something else, then what was it? Did they believe we were created by other creatures or did they just spontaneously appear? Now what changed peoples minds to where they don’t believe such fictional myths are true anymore. They probably just realized that their crazy ideas made them look more like fools than those they earlier accused.

Kayla -- Opposites Attract

The witches used riddles that really did not make a lot of sense the said opposite things; it made it kind of hard to make sense of what was being said, like when they said that Banquo would be lesser than Macbeth but also greater and that he would not be happy but happier. The language is hard to follow and I often had to read over and over again to try and get an understanding of what Shakespeare was saying in the play. The witches were right on parts though they said he would be Thane of Cawdor and he was appointed this by Duncan, so it is also kind of odd that the witches were right in their prophecies and that they were thought to be dismissed until one of the things they said came true and then he became consumed with what he wanted to be true in that he would be the King of Scotland, he sought their advice and in the end their advice killed him.

Kayla's general impressions.

Kayla

December 12, 2012

The other oddity that I thought of was that Macbeth and his wife wanted Duncan killed so bad so that Macbeth could be King of Scotland but in the end Macbeth died and he died like the traitor Macbeth had killed early on in the play. Lady Macbeth who really was the mastermind behind the killing of Duncan and begged her husband to kill Duncan also died and in the end both of them ended up being what they were trying to do to Duncan. They became so obsessed with power it drove them crazy and killed them, so they never enjoyed the kingdom anyway.

The final odidity it that Macbeth himself was held as a hero by his King and would have lived a lavish and wonderful life had he not become obsessed with more and more power. He was held in high regard by his king and the people and he was a strong warrior known for his ability to fight. He became overcome by his lust for power and ambition and his wives desire to rule the kingdom. He became bloodthirsty and nothing in the end mattered to him, not his wives death or what he had to do to keep his title, just power, which he had in many forms had he just remained content with his position and not the prophecy of the witches that became destructive to him.

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Macbeth in Charcoal

Ashley -- Secrets of the Brew

The three witches in Macbeth were weird I thought by the things they used in there potions, some of the ingredients were finger of a baby, a Jews liver, a wolf’s tooth and mummified flesh. Another thing I found weird about them was the way they said things and how they acted in the different versions of Macbeth.

Ashley -- Floating Dagger

Macbeth sees a dagger floating in the air with the handle part facing him after reaching for the dagger and not being able to grab it he realizes it was not actually there and that it represents his not wanting to kill Duncan.

Jessica -- Puppeteer

Jessica -- Lady Macbeth

Destiny -- Haggard

The three witches are filled with evil and magic. They know what they did to start the downfall of Macbeth with the other the bloodshed. They are of the lowest of the low, yet they are pretty powerful in the story. The three haggard old women fill free to destroy life’s and be on the paranormal merry way.

Destiny -- Cowardly Criminal

Macbeth does whatever his wife tells him to do. He is a coward and a criminal. Lady Macbeth, his wife, is just controlling him, and he can’t stop it neither can she.  They both are falling into torment mind and body. When you past that point like they did, there is no return so you become afraid and keep digging a hole for there self because they was left with no other option.

Destiny -- Consumed

Macbeth is consumed by ambition and cheats his way into power. Cheaters never win. Karma is not on his side and,  in the end,  he fails and loses more then he started with. Macbeth continued this series of murders to protect him from being exposed of his crime. His wife just keeps pressuring him to continue. They both become insane and then die.

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Denise -- Twisted Sisters

The witches in the play were known as the “weird sisters”. The witches always had a temptation to do something evil. They often spoke at the same time as if they were reading each other's thoughts. They also used pretty strange ingredients for their spells. They also seemed to rhyme every time they spoke.

 

Denise -- The Most Evil

Lady Macbeth had a lot of ambition and cruelty in her. She was known as the most evil character in the play. Lady Macbeth didn’t really care about anyone else in the play. She also played a key role in the killing of banquo. Lady Macbeth also got sucked into what the witches believed in. Really, all Lady Macbeth cared about was herself.

Denise -- Macbeth's Intuition

Macbeth had Banquo killed! He sent three murderers after him. The murderers decided to stab him twenty times in his face. I would think no more than five times would be enough. It’s like Macbeth had a intuition to know when the death would happen.

Sabrina -- The Stress Got to Her

After all the complaining, Lady Macbeth ends up killing herself over the same things she told Macbeth not to stress over. Lady Macbeth went back on her words and killed herself about the guilt of the murders.

 

Sabrina -- Take No Hostages?

Lady Macduff and Family Surprized and Murdered by the Order of Macbeth.

The murderers kill Macduff’s family. Why would you kill the children? It's not his family’s fault that he ran. When they kill Macduff’s little boy because he said that his dad was not a traitor. But Lady Macduff got away from the murderers briefly and starts to scream. They catch and kill her. It's shows that they weren't using their heads. If I were one of the murderers, I would have kept the Macduff family hostage until Macduff himself came to get them. Any good father would come after his family and dare them to harm them.

Sabrina -- Too Much is Too Much

 

In what case would you stab someone 20 times? The murderers stab Banquo 20 times. Don't you think one or two cuts would have done the job? By the time they finished stabbing him, there would be nothing left.  It would just be a bloody mess. They didn't have to stab him that many times and slit his throat.

Ayush -- She Sure Fooled Me

The oddest of all the oddities was Lady Macbeth's suicide. She masterminded and convinced Macbeth to do Duncan in, and that started the whole chain of events. Lady Macbeth also played a huge part by framing the murder of the king on the guards. She Macbeth’s backbone, not showing any type of hesitance on all the bad things they did. In the end when out of nowhere, Lady Macbeth started sleepwalking and ends up kills herself. This was the most surprising part of the whole story for me. It was also the oddest/weirdest part out of everything else. The one person that looked to be the most sure and stable about what was happening killed herself towards the end.

Ayush -- Topic: C-Section

In the story, just when Macbeth thought he was invincible, Malcolm comes out revealing that he was not technically born of a woman but from caesarian section, and he kills Macbeth. To me, this seemed like a very odd thing because caesarian section is still of a woman. You don't have to pop the baby out of the vagina to be considered born of a woman. Also the fact that Macbeth killed everyone else that tried to kill him except for Malcolm who ends up killing Macbeth in the end. I felt like there was something Psychological going on with Macbeth.

Ayush -- Twenty Slashes

Banquo was killed by the 3 murderers who were send by Macbeth. He was stabbed 20 times in the FACE!. Literally. Right after this happened, Macbeth saw the ghost of Banquo. To me it kind of seemed like Macbeth saw the ghost of Banquo before he was actually informed about Banquo's death. Well anyway, even till the end of the story you couldn't really tell if the ghost was paranoia or something else. Since Witches and foresight exist, ghosts might too.

Van -- Strong Silent Type

Macduff is the reason for Macbeth’s death, marching to fight against Macbeth and his army on Dunsinane.

Macduff is not talkative, but his actions speaks for themselves. As we get to know Macduff, who is a strong and courageous soldier, he was very sad about Duncan's murder.

Van -- She's a Lady

The wife, Lady Macbeth is a powerful lady. She's charming, attractive, ambitious, and seems to be completely faithful to her husband. She's also a teensy bit worried that her man isn't quite man enough to do what it takes to be the king. She starts to take things in her own hands later in the story.

Van -- Three in One

The three weird sisters set the action. We never see them apart and they often speak and act at the same time, so it's worth considering them here as a single unit.

Hannah -- Weird Weird Weird Weird

The three witches were weird. They were known as the weird sisters also. The ingredients the witches used for their spells and stuff were weird.  Some of the things they used were: a sailors thumb, a baby's finger, a scale of a dragon, a tooth of a wolf, a gall of a ghost, and a witch’s mummy. To me, this is extremely weird and random.

Bridgett -- Troublemakers

The three sister witches are troublemakers.  They were the first ones to convince Macbeth that he would become king. After Macbeth becoming king and killing so many people, the witches come back to tell Macbeth that he will no longer be king and will be killed.  Malcolm becomes king just like the witches told Macbeth.

Bridgett -- Murdered Banquo Haunts Macbeth

After Macbeth killed Duncan, he becomes suspicious of Banquo, he remembers that the three sisters tell banquo that his ancestors will be kings.  Macbeth hires someone to kill both Banquo and his son. Banquo does get killed but not his son.  Later Banquo shows up at the dinner party making Macbeth look crazy. When he says all the seats are gone because Banquo’s ghost was sitting in his seat. Banquo distracts Macbeth of what he needed to be doing.

Bridgett -- Be a Man!

Lady Macbeth challenges Macbeth’s manhood. She asks him if he is afraid to finish what he had started. She remains calm after the murders, telling him a little water will clean up the traces of the murder. She takes the daggers and plants them on the guards because Macbeth has lost his will to go back to the scene of the crime. She tells Macbeth to stop felling guilty, and by the end of the play she kills herself because the guilt overwhelmed her.

Wynoma -- Most Unnatural Supernatural

Perhaps the most unnatural aspect to Macbeth is the supernatural aspect.  The play opens with witches; that is already strange enough.  And the witches were not simply a one-time hallucination for they return, a few more times really, and say crazy impossible things.  On top of that, no man who has been stabbed in the face twenty times will sit in the King's seat.  If he is, there are bigger problems than an occupied seat; you may need professional help there.  However, the most unnatural is the idea of a walking forest; if you see a forest walking toward you, there are pobably other placess you should be than in a castle.  It looks like those weird sisters were not so crazy after all.

Wynoma -- Selfish Lady Macbeth

Another this that is odd, or maybe just stupid is how selfish, yet cowardly Lady Macbeth is, especially after receiving the letter from Macbeth.  The first thing that comes to her mind is, "Well, now we have to kill Duncan."  Macbeth is the one who has greater power, and he wants the ultimate power of being king just as badly as Lady Macbeth does, but he still has qualms about murdering a man.  The nagging, powerhungry queen comes out in Lady Macbeth, and she all but harasses Macbeth to murder Duncan; like the loyal -- or maybe fearful -- husband he is, he kills the king.  Oddly, he has no hesitation in murdering the guards, and order a few more murders following that.  However, he still runs crying back to Lady Macbeth about the guilt.  She simply calls him ridiculous, and sends him off to bed.  Later, it turns out, Lady Macbeth is sleepwalking, because of the guilt, so much for just going to bed.  She later proceeds to kill herself, most likely because she cannot hand the quilt; it seems as though she, in fact, is the ridiculous one.

Wynoma -- where Lady Macbeth gets her Power?

MacBeth's entire relationship with Lady Macbeth is odd.  The play was written in a time when women had practically no freedoms. Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth what to do like she is the one in charge, and this is odd.  She finds out the he is a thane, and king, and all those things that just scream "power," so she becomes a little crazed for power.  Whatevey gave her the ideas that she has the power?  She is not the one to be king; she is simply the controlling woman who just happens to be married to that man.

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Ingredients from the Third Witch

When brewing a spell in Act IV, the Third Witch said, "Here come some more ingredients: the scale of a dragon, a wolf’s tooth, a witch’s mummified flesh, the gullet and stomach of a ravenous shark, a root of hemlock that was dug up in the dark, a Jew’s liver, a goat’s bile, some twigs of yew that were broken off during a lunar eclipse, a Turk’s nose, a Tartar’s lips, the finger of a baby that was strangled as a prostitute gave birth to it in a ditch. (to the ingredients) Make this potion thick and gluey. (to the other WITCHES) Now let’s add a tiger’s entrails to the mix."

 

Act IV Notes by Mary Coe

Witches create another spell using: amonge other items the thumb of a sailor, and the hand of a baby born of a prostitute in the ditch.
After Macbeth arrives for another "reading," spirits or head emerge out of the pot for Macbeth to listen to.
One "head" said, "No man not born of a woman can harm Macbeth.
McDuff's wife and children killed by the Macbeth's assassins.

Ingredients from Second Witch

When brewing the potion in Act IV, the Second Witch said, "a slice of swamp snake. All the rest of you in too: a newt’s eye, a frog’s tongue, fur from a bat, a dog’s tongue, the forked tongue of an adder, the stinger of a burrowing worm, a lizard’s leg, an owl’s wing."

 

Ingredients of First Witch

In Act IV, the first witch said, "a toad that sat under a cold rock for a month, oozing poison from its pores."

Act III Notes by Mary Coe

Banquo and his son, Fleance, go riding. 
Assassins hired by Macbeth murder Banquo, and the son flees.
At a royal feast, Banquo's ghost shows up and sits in Macbeth's chair.  No one but Macbeth sees him.
Lady Macbeth makes excuses for Macbeth's behavior.
Three witches cast spells with their boss, Hecate.

Act II Notes by Mary Coe

Banquo has doubts.
Macbeth kills King Duncan.
Macbeth kills two of Duncan's groomsmen after Lady Macbeth framed them with blood.
Princes Malcolm and Donnalbain flee the scene of the murder which makes others suspect them of parricide, so Macbeth becomes King.

Act I notes from Mary Coe

Macbeth and Banquo meet three witches
Future of Macbeth

1. Thane of Glamis
2. Thane of Cawdor
3. King of Scotland

Duncan is current King
Malcolm is Duncan's son.
Macbeth sends letter to wife who is called Lady Macbeth.

respectfully submitted, Mary Coe