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Albia has grown up with no knowledge of her father, the powerful thane Macbeth, and her mother, the grief-wracked Grelach. Instead she knows the dark lure of the Wychelm Wood and the moors, where she’s been raised by three strange sisters. The ambitious Macbeth seeks to know his fate,and Albia’s life becomes tangled with that of the man who leaves in his wake nothing but bloodshed. When Albia learns that she has the second sight, she must decide whether to ignore the terrible future she foresees—or to change it. With only the shepherd Colum to aid her, Albia sets out on a journey fraught with peril. Will she be able to save the man she loves from her murderous father? Can she forgive her parents their wrongs, or must she destroy them?We had all read Shakespeare’s MacBeth, but it was so long ago that we couldn’t remember all the details! We found it interesting to learn that MacBeth was a REAL person. We recognized that this was a time when people were relatively superstitious. We were reminded that the women of that time married young and had children very young, which led to a brief discussion of how Disney sexualizes everything and makes women (human and animal) sexy and alluring to men.
In MacBeth’s Daughter, we wanted more about the three sisters and their history. The witches, inevitably, changed the course of events for MacBeth. We wondered why Albia had to have “second sight” – couldn’t she have just thought it was a good idea and gotten people to do things? We thought Banquo was an interesting contrast to all the other ambitious men and that Colum was also a gentle soul.
We touched upon several themes:
- Ambition
- To be hunted or to be the hunter
- People go from family to enemy and from friend to enemy at an alarming rate.
- Lightness vs. darkness
- Justice vs. Revenge
We had a few loose ends:
- Who gave Albia the sword?
- Did Colum want to marry Albia?
- What happens to Eduob?
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