Macbeth Riddles!

My first picture includes the telling of the riddle and Macbeth’s reaction. In my image, I attempt to comically recreate Macbeth’s paranoia and anxiety. The first apparition, which is Macbeth’s severed head, yells "Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff; Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough.” A paranoid Macbeth attempts to question the apparition for more information but is stopped by the witch. The witch states that the apparition shall not be commanded. I believe that the apparition is a symbol which foreshadows the beheading of Macbeth as the play nears its end. 

The second image consists of a baby telling Macbeth the riddle and Macbeth’s response. Once again, I attempted to take a comical approach to the task. The second apparition, a bloody baby, cries "Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth." This riddle basically states that no man born naturally from a woman’s womb will harm Macbeth. This gives Macbeth a false sense of invulnerability as he believes that no man will be able to harm him, including Macduff. Unfortunately for Macbeth, Macduff was born via caesarean section which is an unnatural method of birth.          

My final image is a picture of a man hiding with a bush as Macbeth laughs on. However, Macbeth is unaware of the man hiding within that bush. My image is created through a comical point of view in order to showcase Macbeth’s ambition. The riddle is "Be lion-mettled, proud; and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are: Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him." This riddle was difficult to comprehend properly until I delved deeper within the play. The riddle foreshadows Macduff’s men moving in onto Macbeth’s castle with the help of camouflage (bushes). While Macbeth laughs at the bush itself, a man is hiding within that bush ready to assassinate him.