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in our performance of metamorphosis we have had to edit the script significantly so it plays to there strengths we have had to change it because the limitations to the number of casts there are seven roles including Mr and Mrs s and there are three lodgers as well as Greta and Gregor and there are only 5 people in the group so we cut the lines out and we combined the roles  of the lodge and because they are very similar characters.    .

She should have died hereafter; she shouldn’t have died at that time. Macbeth mindset is deteriorating because his wife has just died

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage without meaning there is also not long left to live also his life is full of fear

The way to dusty death. killing

Out, out, brief candle! no light

It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing. there is no value of the

Signifying nothing. this is which said at the end of the passage tells use there is nothing left everything is broken

Macbeth state of mind is deteriorating throughout as wee see the transformation from hero to villain.

Shakespeare’s use of Metaphor

Shakespeare uses metaphor to present Macbeth’s state of mind at the end of the play.  Macbeth mindset deteriorating as he is surrounded in the castle but he thinks he is still going to win and also his wife has just died and there is English army waiting outside his house as they are waiting to kill him but Macbeth him self has a ruthless ambition to the king but also Macbeth feels guilty about the murder he has committed so his mind is deteriorating through the play and slowly the locked up guilt drives him mad. In this metaphor, ” It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. this means that Macbeth thinks that life is not worth living because of his motivation has come from his wife. “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage without meaning”  this quote demonstrates the same situation and a hour is not that long his life is not that long.

Metaphysical events

Macbeth has also hallucinations There are three very notable hallucinations that Macbeth experiences. One is the dagger that he sees floating before him just before he is about to murder Duncan. Just after he kills the king, he fancies he hears voices calling out that ‘Macbeth does murder sleep also shake spear was the one who put the hallucinations inside Macbeth mindset and Macbeth has been brainwashed and doesn’t realise hear yet these hallucinations show Macbeth mind set deteriorating.

Rhythm 

Iambic meter. One unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable, repeated the rhythm has broken and is dead in his speech due to the fact that his wife has just died and he is going mad and because there is the English army waiting outside his house and he was also having hallucinations also he hasn’t got a good relationship with some of the characters.

my character is  the first lodger age 26  the lodger is  pictured as being able to with stand his strength and is also demanding at times in the play and his characteristics are that he is trying to help the family. i am intending  to play my character quite physical at all time and my character w  have a accent due to his age being quite young he  will also come across at times as a nice and fundamental person   but he will be looking to get a high appearance but he will also not be temper mental my character is going to be independent but he will be going in strong fearless as the lodger are physically tough my character will not be focusing on any historical or political context but maybe it is set at a specific moment and time . The context of the hall performance is the refugee crises Gregor is the refugee we are suppose to supporting him also gregor was the beetle

Macbeth says that she should have died hear after meaning she shouldn’t have did at that specific moment also  the paragraph fits in to act 5 scean  5

Macbeth state of mind is deteriorating and he wants to kill king Duncan who is his friend which makes him feel conflicted. He also trying to please his wife who wants him to kill Duncan and she wants him to kill Duncan due she wants a higher status  back in  the day women never use to get the respect they wanted and that’s  why she wants to kill Duncan Macbeth hallucinates about the dagger in front of him it is an another demonstration of why Macbeth should kill the king which also could be a sing from god

in to the air and what seemed corporal melted as breath in to the wind would they had stayed and Macbeth is with the three witches and banquet Macbeth minds is starting to deteriorating and he is starting to have doughts about what he sees.

this super natural soliciting can not be ill if ill why haft it give me earnest of success commencing in a truth i am thane of cawdor if good why do i yield to that suggestion whos horred image unfix my hair Macbeth is in the castle while she is talking to Ross Angus and banquo and he is thinking about killing kind Duncan.

In the following scean malcon tells Duncan the old thane of Cawdor confessed and repented before being exercuted Duncan says that you can always trustable man by his outward show macbeath banquo Ross and Angus enter Duncan says that even the gift cawdor is not as much as macbeath.

The social , historical and cultural background of the stimulus? Does it have a defined background?

The  stimulus is the Aysar Ky and refugees for the start of this production theme

Ideas for the play:

The play will be set in the countryside where i am setting it because there are a lot of places and props that  i can use and there are big open places and wide spaces.

Fear of moving the kids

Death -are devastated that the mother did not come back with the dad

The outline of the play

There are three characters and there are two children and the youngest child was 10 and the oldest child was 18.

There are three people in the scene and there are 2 children and they are left on there own and the dad turns up out the blue and the kids get shocked because the dad came alone and the mum wasn’t there and the oldest son went and asked there dad that where is mum and the dad didn’t answer them and then both of the brothers  asked there dad and the dad was not answering them and the oldest son was then starting to speak up and he started saying to his dad where is mum and then dad still did not reply to his son and then the oldest told his little brother to go and site in his bedroom and then the oldest son went asked his dad where is mum the dad then told his oldest son to go and  pack there clothes and they can only take three things with them and the kids start slowly listening to there dad and they take there favorite toys with them and the kids want to take more than 4 toys with them and the oldest kid wants to still argue with dad about were is mum and dad still doe sent answer him and the youngest kid starts asking and the dad in the end tells the kids that your mum has died and the kids get in to a shock and start asking questions about what happend the dad said pack your clothes and take your three toys and the dad starts crying as he is in stress and the kids and the dad start crying together.some stuff and we are leaving and son says where are we going and the dad says you can only take three things with you and the dad was saying go and pack your things and your brothers things and the son says where is mum and the son started screaming where is she and then the dad says mum is dead .

Feelings

DAD the dad is in stress and is hiding it from the kids and the he doesn’t want them to relies

Oldest Sons the oldest son is heartbroken and cant stop crying

Youngest Son the youngest son has started crying

Item 2 –

The situation in this monologue was based on the original play with 2 other cast members.  I was only 8 years old when the play was done, in this monologue I was now 18 years old and ten years had past. I decided to make it 10 years later to show the audience what had happend in his life. I was going to carry on and do it from when he was 8 but thought this would not allow the audience to understand the real person in the play. (Young  boy).

The character that appeared was the eight old boy that now was eighteen.  Male,6 ft 3 in, he looked  like a bodybuilder or someone that worked out (bouncer). I wanted to make the boy more mature, also to show he had now become a family man and to show how what had happen 10 years previously had changed him and made him the man he is today.  Also wanted to show the effects on him as a human being. Effects of losing his mum, being brought up in a war torn country, seeing violence and death all round him.  The character attitudes is more relaxed and calculated and he is not aggressive as he was as young teenager.  The way I developed this was to show the audience the pain and suffering of being in a war-torn country and to show young people that you can still move on with your life even though he had a bad childhood.

I developed the character  based on the boxer Charles Martin, who is a professional boxer from USA. He had a tough childhood because he lost his dad at a young age. He lived in a rundown estate, where there was lots of drugs and fights in his area.  He grew up with the wish to make a name for himself and show people he could do it.  That is why I choose this sort of character to have the same kind of personality as the man in the play.

How I played the character in the play to show the audience what he was like, I used a countryside accent to show he was from the country, also I used a deeper voice to show he aged.   The character was upset in the play because he was talking to his mother’s picture so his voice was sad, low and angry and emotional.  His body language including him moving around anxiously and in a depressed way. He was holding a picture of his mum.

I developed my piece by using improvisation why because it was easier for me to describe the situation what was happening and also to be able to be angry and sad at the same time.  This help me to work out what I wanted to put into a script later.  Which meant the words I would use.

How may I develop this further to strengthen the communication make it more inspirational to let the audience see a brighter future of what can happen to people in  war.

ITEM 3 – Design Idea

In the countryside house, the scene was in a bedroom, it was dark room with just a bed and a lamp which was on and beside the lamp was a teddy bear which he kept from when he was eight.

The design of the stage was the backdrop a picture that looked like the countryside with a house in it.  This shows the audience we are in the countryside.  The bed room was backstage because its dark and I wanted to be able to have space on the stage to move around. The set design of the room is dark with black walls and the only furniture in the room is a bed and a small bedside lamp. this will allow the audience to see how the war has effected the young boy  growing up.

The design shows that the man in the play has grownup from the first play, he was angry and anxious but also was able to survive from what went on.

By using this design I can show the audience that he have now got strength and weakness in the character and that he has developed from when we first met him as a eight year old.  Where we saw him scared about his father telling him to choose 2 toys to take with him.