Lee's+reading+journal+9

2) **Actor**: Find one theme that appears in your group’s scene. Write it down in your journal.

You will have to do two things with this theme. The first is you have to find a video related to your theme. The video cannot be Macbeth. Put the video on your journal and write a few sentences below it explaining what it shows about your theme.

My theme is power. media type="youtube" key="L53gjP-TtGE" height="349" width="560" "No one man should have all that power" lyrics from Kanye West's song //Power// gives the answer of why Macbeth loses his kingdom. Power is a two-blade sword. If you use it incorrectly, you will hurt yourself. Power can bring a man to the top and it can also pull him down.

Next you have to write about your scene. How does this theme come up in your character? Try to make a list of every moment that where your character is connected to this theme. You have to start thinking about what how this theme connects your character and their personality. Look back to the beginning of the play. How is the theme different there from your scene? Describe, using a quote from your scene, how you would act out the two parts of this theme with your character. Specifically try to start describing what this theme shows about your character.

Macbeth kills Duncan for power and it is power which leads the whole story. Macbeth does every decision for power. He kills his king; he asks witches for more information; he kills Macduff's family; he kills his best friend Banquo and he does many things only for power. At first, he has the ambition but he is self-controlled. He has the dream to be the king but in a good way. Later, after he makes it to the king, he uses the power to keep the time longer as a king. He doesn't know that power is changing him more and more evil. Now he believes in his power not his kinsmen. "I bear a charmed life, which must not yield to one of woman born" (V.vii.50-51). Macbeth trust too much in power. He believes in witches' words that he cannot be killed by those who are born from women naturally. He thinks that he has the power to live forever. The desire of power changes his life and causes his death. Macbeth does anything in order to gain power even it is devil. In the play Macbeth should be angry and supercilious because he thinks he is the strongest. No one is able to beat him. This scene shows how Macbeth fights and how he dies.