For my painting, I decided to mostly center it around the first scene in act four because I felt that it was one of the most important scenes of the play. This scene further accelerated the development of the plot and the witches’ new prophecy drove Macbeth to take more reckless and unwise decisions due to the fact that it gave him a false sense of invincibility. I partially based my project off of Henry Fuseli's The Three Witches, who painted the piece in 1783. The three witches, in my project, are throwing Macbeth’s crown into a cauldron of blood. The three apparitions of the armed head, the bloody child, and the crowned child holding a tree loom above the witches. I included a snake hidden under flowers lying on the brim the the cauldron.
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The background remains black to display the overall cold and dark tone of Shakespeare’s tragedy. The contrast between color and darkness was also meant to represent a less notable motif of opposites. For example, in the play, Banquo’s character stands as a rebuke for Macbeth, since he represents the path Macbeth chose not to take: a path in which ambition need not lead to betrayal and murder. The roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth compared to the beginning of the play were completely reversed; Macbeth who was kind-hearted and honest eventually became a bloodthirsty tyrant. Additionally, the character of Mcduff served as the foil of Macbeth’s …show more content…
The witches predicted and set the course of Macbeth’s fate and no matter what course he took, his fate was already sealed. One of the prophecies predicted that he would be defeated and that he would see his downfall as king. I showed this though the image of the witches throwing his crown. Additionally, I painted the witches’ visions going into Macbeth’s crown to symbolize that their prophecies would take up a majority of his thought and they would dictate all of the decisions he makes. Macbeth also illustrated that one should never take anything at face value for it may be under false appearances. This theme was represented by the flower-covered snake lying on the cauldron rim. I based it off of one of Lady Macbeth’s, and even the play’s most famous lines. Although the image of flowers may seem harmless, the snake hidden underneath such a friendly appearance would strike-- a not so pleasing
The background remains black to display the overall cold and dark tone of Shakespeare’s tragedy. The contrast between color and darkness was also meant to represent a less notable motif of opposites. For example, in the play, Banquo’s character stands as a rebuke for Macbeth, since he represents the path Macbeth chose not to take: a path in which ambition need not lead to betrayal and murder. The roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth compared to the beginning of the play were completely reversed; Macbeth who was kind-hearted and honest eventually became a bloodthirsty tyrant. Additionally, the character of Mcduff served as the foil of Macbeth’s …show more content…
The witches predicted and set the course of Macbeth’s fate and no matter what course he took, his fate was already sealed. One of the prophecies predicted that he would be defeated and that he would see his downfall as king. I showed this though the image of the witches throwing his crown. Additionally, I painted the witches’ visions going into Macbeth’s crown to symbolize that their prophecies would take up a majority of his thought and they would dictate all of the decisions he makes. Macbeth also illustrated that one should never take anything at face value for it may be under false appearances. This theme was represented by the flower-covered snake lying on the cauldron rim. I based it off of one of Lady Macbeth’s, and even the play’s most famous lines. Although the image of flowers may seem harmless, the snake hidden underneath such a friendly appearance would strike-- a not so pleasing