Wednesday, 15 January 2014


If you were a director how would you stage Macbeths soliloquy in act 2 acene1?
In act two scene one of Macbeth I would direct the dagger soliloquy a little bit different. When Macbeth says to himself” is this a dagger which I see before me, /the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: / I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.”(2.1.33-36)I would have the dagger floating in front of Macbeth in a cloud of glitter. The camera views would be different .From the camera stationed behind Macbeth the audience would be able to see the dagger .When the camera view from the front is used the dagger would disappear to everyone. This would make it so that the audience knows he sees it and that the audience knows something is there in his imagination. the point to this is to show that he is In fact going crazy and this emphasizes that. Then he would proceed to try and grasp it but being that he is imagining it he can’t grab anything. Leading him to say”…or art thou but /A dagger of the mind, a false creation…” (2.1.36-37)The rest of the scene I would leave untouched because it is explained and organised well with the beginning of the soliloquy.

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