Comparison of macbeth script & film adaption
- 1. Comparison of Macbeth Script & Film Adaption Controlled Assessment
- 2. Act 1 Scene 1 Script 1606 2010 Patrick Stewart Film Set in “an open place” Set in a field hospital with the Effects – thunder & lightning to battle taking place outside. suggest the supernatural Scene 2 “What bloody man etc.” is spoken first. Tells audience Some lines in rhyming couplets about the battle & Macbeth’s Witches agree to meet after a bravery. battle & then meet Macbeth Witches dressed as nurses with Paddock & Greymalkin – surgical masks. familiars. Tells audience they are Effects – bombs falling & heart witches. monitor. Lights flashing. “Fair is foul” – theme of things Witches don’t mention familiars but rip out captain’s heart being not what they first appear establishing them as evil.
- 3. Act 1 Scene 3 Script 1606 2010 Patrick Stewart Film Setting – heath Macbeth & Banquo appear Witches enter to thunder first entering creepy tunnel. They speak of doing things Setting – underground hospital which establish them as evil corridor, poorly lit, torchlight, and ruthless e.g. “Killing swine opening onto large empty etc.” room. Some speech in rhyming couplets Witches’ lines about sailor’s wife & killing swine cut. “Thrice”- seen as magic number Probably to make it fit with the more modern setting.
- 4. Act 1 Scene 3 Script 1606 2010 Patrick Stewart Film “So foul & fair a day I have not • Witches spread out in line seen”- Macbeth echoes their waiting, captains coat on earlier words. stand behind them attached Banquo comments on their to blood bag.(blood a appearance “What are these theme of play) so withered & so wild in their attire etc.” • Witches remove surgical They make their prophecies to masks when they speak. Macbeth & Banquo before One carries surgical saw. vanishing – probably through a trap door
- 5. Act 4 Scene 1 Script 1606 2010 Patrick Stewart Film Setting – The Pit of Acheron Setting - hospital, three bodies Thunder marks witches’ entry on trollies covered in plastic Use of “thrice” sheeting & surrounded by Spell in rhyming couplets with blood spattered sheeting. fixed rhythm, chorus Witches’ voices distorted, Hecate & 3 other witches sing dancing in trance-like state . a song ( fits in with James 1’s Bleep of heart monitor. belief that witchcraft was 3 apparitions, bodies o trolleys widespread & trying to destroy the divine order.) twitch as if receiving electric shock & speak through witches
- 6. Act 4 Scene 1 Script 1606 2010 Patrick Stewart film Refer to Macbeth as “wicked” Fourth apparition – multiple Witches show Macbeth 3 Fleances wearing a crown. Apparitions which give him “ damned all those that trust advise & a fourth which shows them” line left out, why? Banquo’s heirs as kings (flattering king James who had an ancestor called Banquo) Lines 138/9 – Macbeth ironically curses the witches & those who trust them (himself)