A A Reign of Blood: Mary and Macbeth

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Macbeth Quote

“upon my head they plac’d a fruitless crown,/ And put a barren sceptre in my gripe” (3.1. 61-62)

Compared to Mary I

Mary I , like Macbeth, worried that she had no children to be her heir. She was desperate to have a child who could carry on her legacy and make sure all the work she had done in securing the throne would mean something. In the end she died with no children and the crown went to her sister.

Macbeth Quote

“ A good and Virtuous nature may recoil” (4.3. 19)

Compared to Mary ILike Macbeth, Mary started out as a promising individual with virtues but as time went on and pressures built Mary lost her virtue to pressure and began to become harsher in her rule and eventually burned at the stake about 300 people in the course of three years.

Macbeth Quote

“and that which should accompany old age,/ As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,/ I must not look to have; but, in their stead,/ Curses” (5.3. 24-27)

Compared to Mary I

At the end of her life Mary was alone she had no real family left and No children all her nobler acts had been forgotten as she had been nicknamed “Bloody Mary”. Most of England despised her and wanted to see her removed from the throne.

Macbeth Quote

“The usurpers cursed head: the time is free” (5.7. 84)

Compared to Mary I

In the end Marys cruelty and executions in pursuit of power for herself and her religion was for naught. The people of england were glad when she died and the country was restored to peace when Elizabeth took the throne. Eradicating marys work for the catholic church. As Elizabeth was a protestant.

The Curse of Mary and Macbeth

MACBETHAccording to a theatrical superstion , called the Scottish curse, speaking the name Macbeth inside a theatre will cause disaster.

BLOODY MARY

Bloody Mary allegedly appears to individuals or groups who ritualistically invoke her name, if she is summoned properly the participants may endure the apparition screaming at them, cursing them, strangling them, stealing their soul, drinking their blood,or scratching their eyes out.