Macduff's Nest in Ashes

This is my first Action Project for the class called Drama. In this first unit called Queen, we talked about queens in our lives and queens in Shakespearean plays. We started by giving our own examples of queens. We saw some of our own as strong, kind hearted, and compassionate towards others or their fans. We read The Tragedie of Macbeth in class to further understand the meaning behind a queen. It gave me a completely new twist on the definition of a queen because it talked about being power hungry, greedy, and tratorious intentions. In Macbeth, men were easily manipulated and sometimes women stepped up to lead the couple. These traits were shown better when we eventually watched the movie based on the book. This was the version that came out this year that starred Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand. Leading to our action project we were assigned to write a sonnet to a Macbeth character of our choice. I decided to write my poem to Macduff because he’s a character that’s very accurate to gender roles at the time. He mainly kept his women and children at home while he was out fighting in the war. This caused Macduff to lose a lot because of his want to be a man. I want to give him a reality check after the events of the play.
Here's my poem below:

Macduff's Nest in Ashes

“The most diminutive of birds,will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl” 

 Macduff, thy eagle for a dying bundle of roses 

 f'r fairness in men and women constantly prowl

 Leaving batt'r'd bodies as the door closes 

 Becoming a man destroyed your reality 

 Betraying your family to fight the saddened side

 Your distance from your kin led to their fatality

 Your wife betrayed, dead because of your pride 

 Keepeth thy kingdom closer than your family 

 Respect their roles and live with regret

 New plans of action keep their sanity 

 With your sword go pay off your debts

To be a father to a growing Malcolm

Leading Scotland to blissful stardom 

Here's a video of the poem as well:

In this course I really enjoyed acting out and reading the story of Macbeth. Learning about the history of it is long but also enjoyable. I also enjoyed watching the movie to see the story in a different perspective. When working on this Action Project I sometimes found it difficult to get everything to rhyme and also have the volta point in the poem. I overcame this by simply rewriting the poem again until I was satisfied with it.