Directions: Reread Act II of
Macbeth. Select major passages of at least 3-4 lines with depth and/or a dialogue exchange from Act II. Cut and paste it into your post. Next, compose a comprehensive blog response exploring the text in depth. Make sure to include your voice. What is your opinion on the text, characters, situations, and events about to ensue? What do you anticipate will happen in Act III? How will fate play a role? How will the characters evolve or devolve? Please engage with one another. ALSO, make references to the performances in the BBC film and the theatrical release with Michael Fassbender. What do you notice about the two performances? How does the setting impact performance? How does the editing? The different Lady Macbeth's? Be bold! Be brilliant.
Lady Macbeth: "Had he not resembled/My father as he slept, I had done 't" (II,ii,13).
"If I had died but an hour before this chance, / I had lived a blessed time; for, from this instant, / There’s nothing serious in mortality: / All is but toys: renown and grace is dead; / The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees / Is left this vault to brag of" (II, iii, 110-116).
