Today we began to actually read Macbeth and analyze the first two scenes of act one. Macbeth is a play written by Shakespeare about a Scottish general who after hearing a prophesy, began a path to self-destruction. In the first act, we are greeted by three witches. They start by asking each other when they will meet again. One asks, "In thunder, in lightning, or in rain." Then another one answers by saying, "When the battle is lost and won". After the resolve that they will meet at sunset on top of a heath, they begin to chant, "Foul is Fair and Fair is foul."
After we acted out Act one Scene one, we began to discuss what Shakespeare or "The Witches," were trying to foreshadow to. After some discussion, we got to the fact that they were juxtaposing "fair" and "foul" along with "won" and "lost". After what we learned some background about the play yesterday, we understood that the witches could be alluding to the fact that Macbeth would be losing his sense of morality as he tries to gain power. When they are saying that the battle is "lost and won" they could be referring to Macbeth being able to achieve what he wanted but, he did it in such a way where he lost all his morals and, in the long run, lost.
After today, we learned that Shakespeare would use alliteration and metaphors to express the actions and intentions of the characters. Today we were able to learn more about how to read and understand when writers foreshadow to later episodes in literature. Later when we continue to read Macbeth and when we read other works, I will be able to use these skills to fully understand what the writer was trying to tell us.
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