Intending to make a boy named Fleance, I ended by making a man named Macbeth. This is a young version of Macbeth; I imagine that this is the era before he became a highland warrior, because his face has so little care or concern on it. The tartan kilt is the Macbeth clan colors, and though it certainly did not come out perfectly, at least it looks like the Macbeth tartan. I had made a Scottish guy before, so the concept was not quite so alien to me. The time period of Macbeth confused me at first though, because highlanders had not started to wear leather jackets yet, but instead wore at least three layers of clothing; a linen shirt, then a wool waistcoat, then a wool jacket, and sometimes even a wool cloak over all that. The cloaks of the lower class were a dark green, and the cloaks of the upper class were black, so don't start thinking I was going for a modern Gothic look. (: He may be a bit scantily clad considering, but who knows, it could be summer in Scotland. I usually don't adhere too closely to period costume any way. After all, Shakespeare never did.
This is a quote which comes right at the end of the play, when Macbeth fights with Macduff; I thought it adequately represented the pride and high spirit of Macbeth's character.
MACBETH I will not yield,
To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet,
And to be baited with the rabble's curse.
Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,
And thou opposed, being of no woman born,
Yet I will try the last. Before my body
I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,
And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'
