http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irIPrZ4ulPQ
The video above is of Shakespeare's Macbeth "Dinning Hall scene" by Polanski in 1971. The scene consists of where Macbeth is in the dining hall and is addressing some of his subordinates. He is there being treated like royalty and having his servants server him. He is then addressed by one of his kinsmen and is offered to dine with them. Macbeth seeing that there being no room for him respectably declines. This is here his kinsmen points the error of Macbeth's judgment pointing out where there is a seat from him. Macbeth doesn't not see this empty seat, but instead he sees a ghost of those who he has murdered. I believe if he never took the road of murdering those he say, they might have been sitting in that seat if they were alive.
Macbeth in this scene is wearing a crown as well as a white garb. The white garb symbolizes righteousness and purity. The crown symbolizes legitimacy, righteousness, victory, triumph, honor and glory. Which in my point of view Macbeth robs himself of it by committing horrible deeds. The deeds that he has committed are shown by the numbers of ghosts that appear in the scene. Each ghost is someone who he has killed. These ghosts also server as a reminder to Macbeth of what he has done.
I choose this scene because it was one of the few things in Macbeth that had some supernatural elements. Other than the 3 witches I can't really recall any other supernatural elements in Macbeth.
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