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Book Review: Macbeth by William Shakespeare

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"Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn and caldron bubble."

From Witches song of Macbeth by William Shakespeare.

                         The tragedy of Macbeth or "The Scottish Play" one of the remarkable creation of William Shakespeare crafted by the emotion of acquiring the power of Scotland and meeting the fatal consequences of human dignity inflected by guilty and tyranny. It was first performed in 1606, one of the shortest tragedy of Shakespeare.

                       Macbeth Thane of Glamis encountered three witches who prophesied that Thane of Glamis will acquire the kingship of Scotland. These witches played a major role in character development of Macbeth as their words poured the liquid of ambition and desire to reach at fatal ends. These weird sisters represented the darkness, chaos and conflict, cause of every betrayal.

In the beginning of first act, witches proclaimed:-

"Fail is foul and foul is fair,

Hover through the fog and filthy air." 

Creating an atmosphere of confusion and depicting good as evil and evil as good, questing the mystery of self justification.

These weird sisters were political and spiritual traitors. As Macbeth was not treacherous the statement of "Milk of human kindness" used by Lady Macbeth as a complaint for him.

                 The drama narrates how a shift in personalities occur. At the starting Lady Macbeth who is described as a nefarious power hungry character, who whishes the murder of King in order to obtain kingship. However, in the end she falls into realms of insanity out of guilt and commits suicide. Here is the line that signifies it:-

"Out, damned spot! Out, I say” she exclaimed in sleep to clean the stain of blood, hallucination of past deeds haunted until her end.

While on other hand, Macbeth unsured for murdering King and was guilt ridden by the act but later commits many murders in order to protect and transformed into a tyrannical ruler.

It is the perfect combination of reckless acts, guilt ridden minds, tyranny and dark arts. The main intention of Macbeth was to abuse power but power abused him.

When Macbeth experienced nearby mortal end he exclaimed:-

"Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player 

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage 

And then is heard no more. It is a tale 

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, 

Signifying nothing."


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