MEMORIES OF SCOTTISH ICONS COME TO LIFE AS REFERENDUM DISCOURSE HOTS UP

MEMORIES OF SCOTTISH ICONS COME TO

LIFE AS REFERENDUM DISCOURSE HOTS UP

…………………TRAGEDY OF MACBETH, MARY ,

QUEEN OF SCOTS,WILLIAM WALLACE RECALLED

……………………..WILLIAM WALLACE’S REBELLION

AGAINST ENGLAND LED TO THE EPIC MOVIE,

BRAVE HEART BY AUSSIE ACTOR,MEL GIBSON

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.

Memories   of several centuries of fight against England by Scotland over the latter’s relentless call for independence came to the fore recently as a Briton kicked against the plan of the scots.

In an exclusive interview with Paedia Express Multimedia in her home in Lagos,Nigeria,British Born Nigerian ,Mrs Annette Adeoba said  that it was not the first time that the people of the Kingdom of Scotland have made the move towards independence.

She noted that much as some of the leading Scottish politicians of today will love she does not think that the referendum will happen as the present day generation may not be able to survive the rigors of standing alone.

He paid tributes to Scottish icons of old like William Wallace,Mary ,queen of Scots and King Macbeth affirming that the growth of the Scottish culture over the years has now rubbed off on there educational institutions as they have some of the best schools anywhere in the world.

Her words:”If you look at the skirts there men often wear at times during there ceremonies ,you will see the list of all there tribal clans ,it is a nation with a with a rich and very proud tradition”

“We fought a lot of bitter war in between us in the past ,the peak of it was when Mary,Queen of the Scots was captured ,tried and eventually beheaded “

“Most of the William Shakespeare’s literary works on England and Scotland were based on historical facts and figures but he deliberately changed the names and locations of some of the events to give it a fictional outlook but they were actually true”

“They have oil but am not sure that they have the capacity to be alone like they think presently”

In the same vein,Macbeth is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, and is considered one of his darkest and most powerful works. Set in Scotland, the play dramatizes the corrosive psychological and political effects produced when evil is chosen as a way to fulfil the ambition for power.

The play is believed to have been written between 1599 and 1606, and is most commonly dated 1606. The earliest account of a performance of what was probably Shakespeare's play is the Summer of 1606, when Simon Forman recorded seeing such a play at the Globe Theatre.^[1] It was first published in the Folio of 1623, possibly from a prompt book. It was most likely written during the reign of James I, who had been James VI of Scotland before he succeeded to the English throne in 1603. James was a patron of Shakespeare's acting company, and of all the plays Shakespeare wrote during James's reign, Macbeth most clearly reflects the playwright's relationship with the sovereign.

Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy, and tells the story of a brave Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia, and he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler as he is forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion. The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of arrogance, madness, and death.

Shakespeare's source for the tragedy is the account of King Macbeth of Scotland, Macduff, and Duncan in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a history of England, Scotland, and Ireland familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries, although the events in the play differ extensively from the history of the real Macbeth. In recent scholarship, the events of the tragedy are usually associated more closely with the execution of Henry Garnett for complicity in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.^[2]

In the backstage world of theatre, some believe that the play is cursed, and will not mention its title aloud, referring to it instead as "the Scottish play". Over the course of many centuries, the play has attracted some of the most renowned actors to the roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. It has been adapted to film, television, opera, novels, comic books, and other media.

In a related issue,Mary, Queen of Scots (7/8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart^[3] or Mary I of Scotland, was queen regent of Scotland from 14 December 1542 to 24 July 1567 and queen consort of France from 10 July 1559 to 5 December 1560.
Mary, the only surviving legitimate child of King James V of Scotland, was 6 days old when her father died and she acceded to the throne. She spent most of her childhood in France while Scotland was ruled by regents, and in 1558, she married the Dauphin of France, Francis. He ascended the French throne as King Francis II in 1559, and Mary briefly became queen consort of France, until his death on 5 December 1560. Widowed, Mary returned to Scotland, arriving in Leith on 19 August 1561. Four years later, she married her first cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, but their union was unhappy. In February 1567, his residence was destroyed by an explosion, and Darnley was found murdered in the garden.
James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, was generally believed to have orchestrated Darnley's death, but he was acquitted of the charge in April 1567, and the following month he married Mary. Following an uprising against the couple, Mary was imprisoned in Loch Leven Castle. On 24 July 1567, she was forced to abdicate in favour of James, her one-year-old son by Darnley. After an unsuccessful attempt to regain the throne, she fled southwards seeking the protection of her first cousin once removed, Queen Elizabeth I of England. Mary had previously claimed Elizabeth's throne as her own and was considered the legitimate sovereign of England by many
English Catholics, including participants in a rebellion known as the Rising of the North. Perceiving her as a threat, Elizabeth had her confined in various castles and manor houses in the interior of England. After eighteen and a half years in custody, Mary was found guilty of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth, and was subsequently executed.
In addition, Sir William Wallace (1270-23 August 1305) was a Scottish landowner who became one of the main leaders during the Wars of Scottish Independence.^[3]
Along with Andrew Moray, Wallace defeated an English army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in September 1297, and was appointed Guardian of Scotland, serving until his defeat at the Battle of Falkirk in July 1298. In August 1305 Wallace was captured in Robroyston near Glasgow and handed over to King Edward I of England, who had him hanged, drawn, and quartered for high treason and crimes against English civilians.
Since his death, Wallace has obtained an iconic status far beyond his homeland. He is the protagonist of the 15th-century epic poem The Wallace, by Blind Harry. Wallace is also the subject of literary works by Sir Walter Scott and Jane Porter and of the 1995 Academy Award-winning film Braveheart.
Scone Palace is the site where some Scottish Monarchs were corona ted and lived in Ancient times