trinitarian macbeth. hello? macbeth as a play of threes. there's the father, macduff, whose children have been killed by macbeth. there's malcolm, the son, whose father has been killed by macbeth. and there's macbeth, the driving force, the uniting factor. hello?? yet they interact and overlap and change roles. the temporary inversion of roles as malcolm, who is younger and less experienced, gives macduff, the older, battle-hardened soldier, advice, and they aren't simply prince and knight in that moment but united via a shared (and similarly unvoiced) grief caused by macbeth. "he has no children". hello??? the constant recurring pattern of threes. the three sons (malcolm, fleance and macduff's son) representing the biggest threat to macbeth's throne. macbeth having no children, the implication that he has lost a child. macbeth's power over the narrative as the third piece of the triangle. macbeth's obsession with leaving a legacy through violence and separating fathers and sons because he has no heir of his own. the 'holy spirit' of the trinity being a dividing force instead of a uniting one. the play being a tragedy for everyone involved, even though the tyrant has been toppled, because the grief remains. macbeth being a play about sons and fathers and legacies. macbeth written after shakespeare lost his own son. macduff's birth being the thing that allows him to defeat macbeth (macduff, the father, becomes the son) and the play ending with malcolm's coronation (taking the place of his dead father; malcolm, the son, becomes the father). the inversion. the childless father crowning the fatherless son. trinitarian macbeth hello can anyone hear me hello is this thing on
