Tuesday, 5 February 2013

What you should have so far Act 1 Sc 7

M delivers a huge soliloquy at the start of this act during which he states that  First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, 
Not bear the knife myself. – Doesn’t show this side in the film, there LM doesn’t have to persuade him as much.
“Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, 
    And live a coward in thine own esteem?” – LM
Here, the word ‘coward’ is used to represent somebody who does not follow their dream fully.
M speaks at length when LM is not in the room. When she enters, she dominates him in terms of amount of speech.
“Prithee, peace: I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. “ – M disagress with LM here stating that if he goes ahead with the crime then he is not a man. LM then has to persuade him further. This disagreement does not take place in the film. She has more of a job of persuading him in the original text.
 “why have you left the chamber? “ LM – Shows her dominance over M that she is able to question him like this. She is ‘in charge’.
“What beast was't, then, That made you break this enterprise to me? “ – Rather than questioning his manhood, LM questions his humanity.
“Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since? 
And wakes it now, to look so green and pale” She questions M’s commitment to the task here. IN a way it comes across as taunting but not as blatant of insulting as the ‘What kind of man is it…?’ In the movie. Less insulting.
“And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. “ – Like is the film, she eventually talks about his masculinity but offers a positive view of it, telling him
“From this time Such I account thy love.” – LM bases her view of their love on his commitment to this task. Not the same as in the film.
I have given suck, and know  How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: 
I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. 
“Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire?” Again, LM shows that, for her, the importance of killing Duncan is to fulfil a ‘desire’. She knows that it is wrong but is following a dream.
MACBETH - If we should fail? 
LADY MACBETH We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, 
And we'll not fail.
Uses lots of questions in style. Macbeth questions her back and answers are given. Much more calm than in film. In the film, questions are made to taunt until M loses patience.
Will I with wine and wassail so convince 
    That memory, the warder of the brain, 
    Shall be a fume

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