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Summary: Very difficult play to read
Review: It is a tragic story with interesting personalities. Macbeth for example first a brave good knighter becomes with his fame more and more crazy. He is not satisfied with the title he gets from Duncan, from now on he kills everybody who is in his way to become king. He does not even resist when it concerns his friend Banquo. His women influencing and supporting him in his doing ends up gowing crazy, so that she dies at the end. The witches are very important in the play, they transmit the background and stand for the future. They also influence Macbeth in his doing, or at least tell him his future. Which is not only a subject in Shakespeare's time. Even though Macbeth knows that he is in danger of getting in a big trouble he can not do anything .It will probably be very helpful the watch the movie to understand the whole content.
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Summary: Too hard for me to understand
Review: ** Too hard for us to understand The story may be interesting, if you really like to get some information about this time, how people lived and thought, and their moral. The plot is interesting, but there are too many monologes, which make the story dry. Overall, the language is quite hard to understand, if your mother language isn't English. But for a better understanding, there is the marvellous possibility of watching the movie or the play performed in a theatre. Don't miss it!
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Summary: Very Interesting
Review: Very interesting "Macbeth" is an interesting play about a man who gets the taste of power and cannot stop getting as much of it as possible. I found it well done how very clearly the difference between good and bad is showed, as it probably was at that time. The brave knights that fight for their country and against the tyranny of an usurper. But we must not forget that Macbeth has once been one of them. So we know that perhaps the same could happen to one of thes brave knights.
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Summary: Why does evil rule over love and duty?
Review: It's a very magical play, based on betrayal and power. At the beginning he's an honest general of the king's army and does a good job, always serving to the king in dignity. But weakness and addiction to power spoil Macbeth's courage and his whole life. "Fair is foul and foul is fair" the three witches are singing. Their words tempt Macbeth and attract him to do this immoral and bloody deed. What unfaithful things do seduce us, I wonder, just to rule about other human beings? Why does evil rule over love and duty? But we hope that justice wins at the end: Good persons will be rewarded, malicious persons will be punished. But will we ever forgive to leave this damned circle of misery?
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Summary: Ambition -- Atrocity -- Anguish
Review: We begin with a man who, to all outward appearances, is noble, honorable, and admirable. We watch as his ambition drives him to murder, murder drives him to anguish, and fear and envy drive him to further murders. As he wades deeper in blood he begins to recognize by degrees that all his struggles will end in rack and ruin. We can sympathize with him up to a point, but when he kills MacDuff's wife and children, he loses all claim upon our compassion. There is, however, a certain nobility to be found in fighting a lost cause to the bitter end. Leonidas at Thermopylae, Travis at the Alamo -- both command our respect. MacBeth redeems himself somewhat when, recognizing MacDuff as his Nemesis, he stands his ground and goes down fighting.The sound quality of the Harper Audio edition suffers in comparison to the Harper Audio edition of "Julius Caesar". The dialog was crisp and clear in "Julius Caesar", but "MacBeth's" was somewhat difficult to understand in places. Anthony Quayle turns in a workmanlike performance as the title character, but he did much better as Brutus in "Julius Caesar". Whatever the minor shortcomings of the audio edition, MacBeth stands as one of the greatest tragedies to come from Shakespeare's (or anyone else's) pen, and the experience of listening to the play is more pleasurable than reading it or (to me at least) watching it performed on videotape. The only thing better than listening to the tape is watching a live performance by a talented cast.
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Summary: Didn't like it at all
Review: Shakespeare is certainly considered to be one of the greatest authors of all times, but I don't really know why. Maybe I haven't understood the whole meaning of the play; to me it seemed quite boring and too predictable. It's a story about power and abusing power, about traitors and morality, decorated with many complicated sentences and words.
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Summary: A Difficult Play to Understand
Review: This play is a typical Shakespeare drama which plays in the Middle Ages in Scotland. The story is about the importance of being king. It describes that they have done everything for being king. Shakespeare shows in this play very well that the common knowledge in this time was very low. The witches were the explication for everything they couldn't explain. The play has also a lot of simple humour and it shows a fight between the good and bad. And the conflict of the people between the two sides We would only recommend to read the book in English to people who really know the old English languag
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Summary: Murder and Intrigue!
Review: For my whole life, I had heard about Macbeth, but knew little about the play itself, other than its setting (Scotland). While I have not enjoyed some of the Shakespearean plays I have read, I truly enjoyed Macbeth. The story is very psychologically stimulating; Lady Macbeth is an especially interesting character: ambitious, heartless, yet compassion that surfaces at times. The whole issue of what fate is, when it is determined, how it is determined, how much of one's future is his fate, etc. is very thought-provoking! Other than a few weak scenes where one has to wonder if Shakespeare was just getting a little too clever (like the lame reverse psychology Malcolm uses to test Macduff's loyalty; or Macduff's son's dying words "He has killed me mother, Run away.") Nonetheless, even better than Hamlet I would say (yet I know few will agree)
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Summary: What's done cannot be undone
Review: After four centuries of well-deserved adulation, "Macbeth" hardly requires further praise. It seems worthwhile, however, to single out the play as a particularly good introduction to Shakespeare. It is tightly constructed, brilliantly written, and relatively short. The memorable plot (drawn from Holinshed's Chronicles) has cast long shadows. The snowballing murders and eerily-fulfilled prophecies have become literary icons, yet have lost none of their power in their original form.
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Summary: A Darker Side to Shakespeare's World
Review: I read Macbeth my Senior year. I was amazed at, although it's distinctly Shakespeare, it is like a Gothic work of fiction. This is very unusual because Gothic was not yet written. This was a play performed by Shakespeare in the Renaissance era. Gothic horror and romance did not come until later. It has supernatural elements that can be frightening- the floating knife with which Macbeth uses to kill Duncan, the ghost of Banquo at the dinner table and the decapitation of Macbeth at the very end of the play. Don't forget the Witches and their very truthful predictions. These elements can exist in a Gothic novel. But Shakespeare has made it into a play that is entertaining, dark and suspenseful. I have not seen it live yet. The play is so good in fact that it inspired opera composer Verdi to make it into opera. And there is a chilling movie by macabre master Roman Polanski. Read it for yourself and see how great it is
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