The Kill

I suspected Macbeth of regicide. Even though Macbeth was crowned King of Scotland, I felt he thought that in order to further secure his throne, he should begin killing off those he could not trust. Just the thought of this made my blood boil. I fled to England to persuade King Duncan’s son Malcolm to take the Scottish throne by force, and to restore the land to health and peace. Meanwhile, back in Scotland, Macbeth murdered my Wife and Children. This was unbelievable to me. I was craving revenge on Macbeth, and I knew I would get it. After finding out about this incident, Malcolm and I marched north and assaulted Macbeth’s stronghold with our English forces. When I encountered Macbeth, I only thought of taking his life. He boasted that he had no reason to fear me because I was born of a Woman. I immediately declared that I was born from my Mother’s womb - A caesarean section - and was therefore was not “of Woman born.” We continued fighting until I beheaded Macbeth, thereby fulfilling the last of the witches’ prophecies. I believe that I truly am a hero for defeating Macbeth. This tragic story happily ends when Malcolm promised to be crowned rightful King of Scotland, and peace was brought to the kingdom once again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyGHoA0zQhU

By: Jessica Seetal

Revenge

I couldn’t believe it when I saw Duncan’s body, I thought I was hallucinating. I thought that the two guards Macbeth had killed were the ones who murdered Duncan but as time went on, secrets began to reveal themselves. I started becoming suspicious of Macbeth, his activities and attitude forced me to. Slowly, my suspicions turned into certainty. After I went to England Ross came to visit Malcolm and I, but when he came he didn’t come with good news for me he told me that Macbeth had gotten my family slaughtered. I couldn’t help myself I felt so helpless it felt like it was my fault that my family got slaughtered, if I hadn’t went to England my family wouldn’t have never gotten slaughtered. Malcolm couldn’t just stand there and watch me feel guilty and sad so he told me to change all the sadness into anger and revenge. I took Malcolm’s advice sitting their feeling wouldn’t have made any difference in my life so I went to Macbeth’s castle with the army that Malcolm was proudly ruling. When I went into the castle I saw a dead body covered with a blanket I wanted to see who it was so when I uncovered the body it was Lady Macbeth and I thought that she got what she deserved and that her husband is going to get it soon too. I didn’t want anyone else except me to kill him because I thought that my wife and children would haunt me because he killed them and I didn’t get revenge. When I finally got my revenge I felt like I accomplished something really big in my life and felt like I didn’t disappoint my wife and children. Now that Macbeth is dead Malcolm is the king of Scotland and things are finally returning to their normal places.

I chose this picture to describe how I felt the time I wanted to kill Macbeth. This picture doesn’t show a pleasant mood. It seems like the person wants to do something bad or the person is not happy with what someone did. It doesn’t hide the persons true feeling and I didn’t hide my true feeling either I didn’t act like I liked Macbeth even for a second so I think this picture describes how I felt very well. The link below is a song that xpresses my sad feelings. It reminds me of my lost wife and child and makes me feel connected to them in a way. This song reminds me of my purpose in life and that is to defeat Macbeth and punish him for his doings, which I did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odQtBEWYnlY

By: Filseta Yilma

Hoplessness

I decided not to go to Macbeth's banquet. I knew that he was the one behind the troubles that were happening. I alone could not confront him because my confrontation would have just counter-attacked. It would have been against my principles to participate in a celebration which included criminals and murderers, and even worse would have been seeing people worshiping those murderers. I had a plan running through my mind and it would have taken effect perfectly at the time of the banquet. I knew that Duncan's son, Malcolm, was in England. I had to reach Malcolm if I was going to save Scotland from turning into a fountain of blood. When I got there everything turned out to be the opposite of what I was expecting.


I had hoped that the son of the former King would not want to let his country go in the wrong hands, but here he was telling me that he would be way worse than Macbeth if he became King. At that moment I had felt that there was nothing that could be done to save our country now. Right when I thought that things could not have gone worse, they did. I find out that my family had been slaughtered by people hired by Macbeth. Right when I thought that now was the time to turn back and return to Scotland, I found out the truth. It turned out that Malcolm was only testing my loyalty by saying everything he had. I felt a new hope inside of me, as if my candle of hope had started to flicker again. I had made my mind at that point, that I would avenge my family no matter what. As you can see in the picture above, my pain is clearly showed. I could not keep the pain of losing Scotland to a murderer and letting it drown in blood inside of me. It eventually began to show on my face as shown in the picture. Below is a link to a song that expresses my feelings perfectly. It's about being betrayed and saying that you will get our punishment in return. This makes me feel hope inside, hope that my family will be avenged.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZVsGxa_Vzk


By: Hirra Razzaq