When it comes to really great introductions, Peter Jackson’s epic trilogy The Lord of the Rings comes to mind. In the first installment of the trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, the film opens up with a lengthy prologue about the story. It explains how the One Ring is a tool of evil created by the Dark Lord Sauron. The Ring gives unnatural power to whomever wears it and it can be used to win wars as the ultimate weapon. It depicts the battle in which Sauron is defeated and when the king, Ilsidur has to opportunity to destroy the ring, he is consumed by its evil and keeps it for his own. The Ring betrays Ilsidur, he is killed, and The Ring is lost for two thousand years. Furthermore, it explains how the Ring wants to return to its master and it would stop at nothing to return to its master. This extended prologue sets up the events for all three films. It determines how the basic plot of the movies will be a venture to destroy the Ring and the evils that it brings upon its bearer and whomever it comes into contact with.
So far in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, there is quite amount of foreshadowing in the first few scenes of the book. One glaring theme is the supernaturalism of what is going on so far. With the witches being not human there is quite a lot of supernatural events going on. Another motif I can see quite a bit of is ambition. Macbeth is going to be faced with an opportunity to gain much in this play. He has already gained a new thaneship and we are only two scenes into the book. I suspect he will be faced with the opportunity to gain more.
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