Macbeth+Project+-+Henry+B+-+Movie+Poster



For my publicity poster, I chose a few symbols to represent the play. The first, the sword, represents the violence that occurred throughout the play, and the blood dripping from it represents the bloodiness of the power struggle between Duncan, Macbeth, Macduff, and Malcolm. The blood from the sword drips onto the skull of a past dead king lying in a pool of blood. This represents the murders of kings throughout the play. When Macbeth sacrifices all he has for his own personal ambition, he starts to feel self doubt. He is haunted by ghosts, portrayed by the image white crowned king. The quote itself was said to Macbeth by Lady Macbeth, as a way of persuading him to kill Duncan to become king. It served in the play to hook Macbeth into killing Duncan, just as it works on the movie poster to hook people into watching the movie. It is written in a blood font to portray the gore throughout the book as well.