Author | Fan Xiang Mountain-
Source | Confucius old book network dynamics
I happened to have just read "History of England", so I have a little understanding of England, Scotland, and Ireland before and after the Elizabethan era. In the work, Macbeth Duncan is in Scotland, seduced by three witches, and even more because of ambition, Macbeth never looks back, first from a pool of blood on his hands to an ocean of blood.
Needless to say, "Macbeth" is a horror drama, and that horror seeps through the words, and assassination and slaughter and revenge make the atmosphere always very tense.
Gentleness and gentleness appear when Lady Macbeth suffers from nocturnal wandering, and she unconsciously confides the truth through her mouth. As you can imagine, this was Shakespeare's deliberate stroke, and he gave the guilt of conscience to Lady Macbeth. Of course, you can say that this is because she has done something bad, and it is a great bad thing, and the feeling of guilt in her heart cannot bear it. Personal perspectives are different, and it doesn't matter if it's right or wrong.
Reading Macbeth always feels like reading Goethe's Faust, perhaps because there are witches and people who have sold their souls to the devil?
Speaking of the structure of "Macbeth", it is a bit similar to "Dream of the Red Chamber", which has foreshadowed the ending in advance and then unfolded the story accordingly. The first ghost reminds Macbeth to "watch out for Sir Macdoff"; the second ghost states that "no one born of a woman can hurt you"; the third ghost says "You will never be defeated unless the woods of Bonan move towards you towards the Dunsinen Mountains". With the assurances of the latter two (Macbeth would never have thought that there were people in this world who were not born of women, and that the woods would move), the already arrogant Macbeth became more and more arrogant, and he ignored Macduff, or acted on him too late, causing him to flee to England.
Macduff was the last to kill Macbeth, for he was the one who had been cut out of the womb in less than a month, and therefore not born to a woman; and under the leadership of Malcolm, with ten thousand soldiers borrowed from England, he followed his uncle to Scotland, and in order to conceal the number of troops, he ordered the soldiers to cut off some of the branches of the Bonan woods and wear them on their heads, so that the Bonangian woods moved, and the first lock was naturally opened. Macbeth's psychological defenses have since collapsed, and the only thing left is that Macduff's head has been cut off, and then of course Malcom has become king, and the story has come to an abrupt end.
Personally, I think that Macbeth is not all finished, of course, he is dead, and the rest of the world is the business, but according to what Macbeth saw in the witch, and the witch's previous prophecy, it is reasonable to complete the following part, that is, Bancor's son will eventually sit on the throne of Scotland, and it will last for seven generations, or that Banco's descendants will have a total of eight kings.
In British history, james was both king of England and scotland from the first time, because Queen Elizabeth was never married, and after her death she passed the throne to Stuart Mary's son, and Stuart Mary was executed in 1587 for plotting to overthrow Elizabeth, so Macbeth saw that "there were several crowned people who still held two golden balls and three royal battles."
I don't know if there is any reference here, because Shakespeare died more than ten years later than Elizabeth, and he can see James alone in charge of the three kingdoms (England, Ireland, Scotland), but as for the eight kings including James, including James, the first, this belongs to literary creation, but I can count, as entertainment, to see if it happens to match the numbers.
James first, Charles first, Charles second, James second (Charles second brother), and voila, it didn't work!
