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The themes, symbols, and/or elements of Macbeth that I am portraying in this collage are that nature is order, ambition, cheap shots, backstabbing, control, and of course blood. For nature out of order I used the broken yin-yang. The yin-yang is used to represent the qualities of natures and seeing it's broken, it now represents nature being out of order. This is referring to how the concept of "fair is foul and foul is fair" shows up. An example of this includes how Macbeth killed an innocent man and somehow ended up on the throne. The next thing, ambition, is represented by the 4. I believe that ambition is measured by the amount of work and/or effort put in to succeeding. So three things are happening in ambition, you show signs of effort, putting in work, AND succeeding. At this school we use a number system to judge effort and 4 is the highest. Therefore, an effort grade of 4 would represent high ambition. The reason I chose to represent ambition is because it was the driving force behind a majority of the character's actions. Macbeth had ambition for the throne as Macduff and Malcolm had ambition to kill Macbeth. The next thing, the gunshot with the "sale" sign, represent cheap shots (I know, it's a pretty funny pun) which were used often by Macbeth to take out most of his adversaries. For example, Duncan was killed in his sleep and Banquo was stabbed. The next thing, backstabbing, is represented by the hug with the knife. This displays exactly what Macbeth did to Duncan. Macbeth warmly invited Duncan in while he had Duncan's trust and stabbed him. Similarly, Macbeth turned on his own friends, Banquo and Macduff. The next thing, control, is represented by the chess pieces. The king is obviously Macbeth because the entire game revolves around him. His murderers are like his bishops and knights. They do most of the dirty work as they take out a lot of the opposition's pieces including the game-winning piece, Duncan. This resembles control because Macbeth was controlling his defense and his offense because he was the one telling the murderers what to do (in terms of killing). This is similar to how a king has control, or is so important that other pieces are controlled according to the king. The last item is blood. Blood in this story means literal blood but also guilt as Lady Macbeth had "blood on her hands". She never actually killed anyone but she was guilty for Duncan's murder. In addition, there were a great number of deaths throughout the entire story so it seems appropriate to have bloody hands as a representation.

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