Neptune's Oceans — Transcript

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1. 0:01[Music]
2. 0:14must face the consequences of his
3. 0:16actions
4. 0:17um so how's he feeling about this we're
5. 0:19not great to be honest um as we'd expect
6. 0:21given his hesitancy to kill duncan in
7. 0:23the first place let's have a little zoom
8. 0:25in on the language will all of great
9. 0:27neptune's ocean wash this blood clean
10. 0:29from my hand well firstly let's talk
11. 0:31about great neptune neptune is the roman
12. 0:34god of the oceans and this is really
13. 0:35hyperbole suggesting even the whole god
14. 0:38of the oceans could not sort macbeth's
15. 0:40guilt out right now even all the oceans
16. 0:43could not wash the blood that is on his
17. 0:45hands from killing king duncan so we've
18. 0:46got this kind of metaphorical image here
19. 0:49um the macbeth there's no way out of
20. 0:51this now okay nothing's going to save
21. 0:53macbeth after the deed he has just done
22. 0:55so if all of this water cannot wash off
23. 0:58the blood why is this blood important
24. 0:59well it's duncan's blood we know that
25. 1:01but blood is also a symbol for guilt
26. 1:03throughout the play so what this is
27. 1:05really saying is that macbeth is never
28. 1:07going to get the guilt off his hands
29. 1:10patterns again really important here
30. 1:12hands are a symbol of responsibility
31. 1:15it is his hands that have killed dean
32. 1:16duncan and now he's going to have to
33. 1:18accept the consequences for it
34. 1:21so a lot going on here a real lot going
35. 1:24on here and you can see what's quite
36. 1:25interesting about this is that lady
37. 1:27macbeth basically says don't worry about
38. 1:29it she says my hands are of your color
39. 1:31i'm as guilty as you but i shame to wear
40. 1:33a heart so white but i'm not moaning
41. 1:35about it
42. 1:36it's obviously her later who says out
43. 1:38damn spot and has the guilt of her
44. 1:41hands to contend with at the end of the
45. 1:43play which ultimately leads to her
46. 1:44suicide so a lot going on there you see
47. 1:46both of those quotes in the context
48. 1:49books