Macbeth+Project+–+Alec+F+–+collage

[] [] [] [] [] [|http://threatquality.com/2011/10/20/eigen-league-of-monsters-part-four-witches//photos/40219265] [] I centered the collage around a bloody dagger because that's what the play is centered around, the death of a king. When Macbeth is contemplating Duncan's death, he sees a mythical dagger that helps lead him on his path. The death of Duncan motivates Macbeth in the first acts and serves as the catalyst for the rest of the events in the latter acts. A king dies and the kingdom falls into chaos which I represent with the burnt forest in the background. The background would have been a flourishing, green forest while Duncan was ruling, but Macbeth burned it down through his various, atrocious acts. The burnt forest represents Scotland ravaged by both civil war and Macbeth. That is also part of the reason I put the Scottish flag on the top, but primarily because it represents Macbeth's ultimate goal. Macbeth wants domain over Scotland, to be king. This connected to the bloody dagger for Macbeth kills for that lofty goal. This leads to the picture at the bottom which is a bed with blood on it. This represents again Macbeth killing Duncan, but also killing sleep. Duncan's death is self explanatory for he dies in his bed, but the killing of sleep is important for sleep represents peace, because when you are asleep, you are at peace. When Macbeth stabs Duncan to death while he is asleep, he is symbolically destroying the peace in Scotland linking it back to the burnt forest. On the right side of the collage are three witches. The witches set Macbeth on his path to murder (the bloody dagger) which in turn hurts Scotland (burnt forest). I purposely found a picture with three witches, but I found it even more appropriate that they appear to be in front of a burnt forest. This seems to connect the witches to the chaos in Scotland which might have been their purpose all along. The last main picture is a decapitated head which both starts and ends the play. Macbeth decapitates Macdonald showing the pinnacle of his glory, and Macduff decapitates Macbeth ending his terrible reign. This links Macbeth to Macdonald who are both traitors to Scotland though for different reasons except for causing chaos in Scotland (burnt forest). Macbeth killed Macduff's family so that is why he is decapitated and why he is linked back to the bloody dagger. Finally, I put four drops of blood around the collage to show the extent of Macbeth's horrors and to represent the main victims: Duncan, Banquo, the Macduff family, and all the others killed by Macbeth while he was king.