Macbeth Theme Ideas(I really need your help)
Macbeth Theme Ideas(I really need your help)
#0Macbeth Theme Ideas(I really need your help)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 9:51amI have to rewrite the second act of Macbeth to a modern day theme for a lit class. I'm completely lost as to what theme I could use. I'm suppose to rewrite the part were they murder Duncan, Macbeth sees the floating dagger ect, ect. Does anyone have any ideas? This is a multi-hundred point test grade so ANY input you can give me is fine.
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#1re: Macbeth Theme Ideas(I really need your help)
Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:45amAre there any rules regarding how you change it? Do you have to keep the main storyline or change it completely but keep the same themes?
#2re: Macbeth Theme Ideas(I really need your help)
Posted: 11/6/05 at 10:59amHmm... I guess my advice would be that if you're rewriting it, first off, paraphrase the dialogue and action into modern English. Then, if you're reworking the script, characters, setting, whatever, go from your framework of modern-English-Macbeth and just add the details. Good luck!
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#3re: Macbeth Theme Ideas(I really need your help)
Posted: 11/6/05 at 4:24pmCM, that really helped me , I have it rewritten in plain english now the only problem is that I don't have a theme. (gertiecumming we pretty much have to keep the main ideas and story lines the same what she really wants us to do is make it more modern) an example she gave was turning Scotland into a mob of some sort and work from there.
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#4re: Macbeth Theme Ideas(I really need your help)
Posted: 11/8/05 at 5:50pm
I'm in a production of Macbeth at the moment. It's an all-female cast, and we're priestesses telling a morality tale.
If it were me...
If it were me, I would make Duncan the president of the United States, and make Macbeth someone who has recently been named to a position that is a few down the line from being president (like I'd say that the Senate Majority Whip resigned after being involved in a major sex scandal and Macbeth was named his replacement or something). Then I'd have his wife be a Hilary Clinton type figure who talks him into assassinating the president and making it look like the Vice President and the Speaker of the House hired hitmen to do it. Instead of a dagger, I'd make him see a hand gun.
Try to rent the movie "Scotland, PA" for inspiration.
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Updated On: 11/8/05 at 05:50 PM
#5re: Macbeth Theme Ideas(I really need your help)
Posted: 11/9/05 at 10:03pmI used flowery friends idea and made it extra dramatic with a soap opera like theme. thanks for your help. My GPA is protected :)
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