Macbeth-Alex+U-Costumes


 * Costumes:**

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth 1606



Macbeth and Lady Macbeth 2013




 * Explanation of Costumes:**

To start off on this design, I wanted to pick colors that represented some of Macbeth's actions as well as his personality traits. My color scheme for him was red, purple and a goldish-yellow. The red represented danger and passion for him. The idea of danger came from him killing, or having something to do with the killing, of characters in the play. The idea of passion is both for his wife, and him being such an ambitious character. No matter if the deed was bad that he was passionate about, the way that he carried out his plan was important. The purple represented royalty, and during the play he became the king. The goldish-yellow represented both the riches and his energy. According to the color-wheel/definitions of colors that I was using, the color yellow is used to represent a happier idea. However, along with this idea of Macbeth's energy, yellow is also a complementary color of purple. In Macbeth's costume for 1606, he also has a white sash around him. This was more for decoration, and again, not trying to have as much of a deep meaning. For the 2013 costume of Macbeth, I used a picture of modern-day royalty to get an idea of what Macbeth would look like a part of the royal family today, and I found a picture of Prince William wearing a suit. The same colors are used in this costume as in the 1606 costume, the one big difference is that the suit is black. Black is evil, death and power, all of which refer to Macbeth. The idea that Macbeth is clothed in all black is appropriate, especially because how people are feeling that day is usually shown through their clothes, ie. darker grays with despair, and brighter colors, such as yellow, for happiness.
 * Macbeth 1606/2013: **

Lady Macbeth's costume was simple for colors. In Macbeth we see a lot of evil, but we also see other personality traits come from him that can be expressed. In Lady Macbeth, though we do see the guilt of death, we mainly only see one side of her, the destructive side. I picked the colors red and pink for her costume. Again, red meaning danger and passion, it also means romance. With her romantic self, she persuades Macbeth into doing the first awful crime, of many, in the play. This is an important trait of hers to note because of the influence she has with it. The pink stands for romance, love, and compassion. With her romantic self she loves Macbeth, and shows her love to him. In addition to her romantic self, we see the compassion towards all of those who were hurt at the end of the play. The guilt, portrayed by her going crazy, shows the reader the other side of Lady Macbeth. In the modern-day costume, again I took a picture taken of the royal couple, and used a dress of Princess Kate's as inspiration. The only different color scheme used is the color white. This is more for decoration, but it could be taken that she took her life so that she could be pure, just like the color white. One noticeable difference in the dress styles is the old dress is to look more poofy, how they were worn in the olden days, where as the modern-day dress is used to fit the body tighter.
 * Lady Macbeth 1606/2013: **