Examples Of Subliminal Message In Macbeth

Analyse how the writer created a subliminal message in the written or visual text

In the play and film Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, a subliminal message was Macbeth questioning his sexuality. Techniques that helped me to understand this were 21st century song lyrics, film techniques, and Wikipedia.
The audience first question Macbeth’s sexuality in the beginning of the play, when Lady Macbeth convinces him to kill Duncan because she thinks Macbeth has a secret crush on the King. Lady Macbeth is jealous because King Duncan has more followers on Instagram, which is why she forces Macbeth into stabbing Duncan in his sleep. A technique that helped me to understand why Macbeth would never love Lady Macbeth is when she says that “thy haters gunna hate, hate, hate” so she will just “shake it off, shake it off”. This showed the audience what a bad choice Macbeth made when he married her, and this is obviously why he turned gay.
We then see the subliminal message of Macbeth questioning his sexuality when he kills Banquo. Macbeth does this because Banquo rejected him, and Macbeth is embarrassed so he decides to kill Banquo for turning him down. A technique that helped me to understand why Banquo rejected Macbeth is when we see Macbeth’s shitty haircut, which he probably only paid $2 for. This
helped the audience to realise why Banquo didn’t want to “swing from thy chandelier” with Macbeth, and this showed me how important a good haircut is if you want someone to love you.
We finally accept the subliminal message of Macbeth’s sexuality when Lady Macbeth kills herself because she realises Macbeth is gay.
After walking around without any clothes on to try and win Macbeth back, Lady Macbeth can tell that he “don’t want none unless you got buns hun”, which she obviously doesn’t have. This leads to her jumping off a building and splattering onto the floor. Macbeth doesn’t seem to grieve when he hears that she is dead, and a technique that helped me to understand this is when we see a close up of his face. You can tell by looking at his eyebrows that he is actually overjoyed that Lady Macbeth is dead, because now he can run away with
Macduff.
Through the use of 21st century song lyrics, film techniques, and Wikipedia, Shakespeare wanted us to understand how Macbeth was actually homosexual. This helped the audience to realise that Shakespeare was probably gay too, and this was his way of come out without being accused of doing it for retweets.