Grasp Twentieth Century Text-Books; Shaksperes Tragedy Of Macbeth Formulated By William Shakespeare Depicted In Electronic Format

is Shakespeare's darkest play not only because of the restricted palette of its imagesshades of black varied with bright red bloodbut also because, in the play's world of warfare and witchcraft, its hero is halfdamned from the start.


Inured to violence, prone to superstition, Macbeth struggles with the hags' predictions in the depth of his soul.
But his wife, fiercely ambitious, never struggles, When he is haunted by his imagination, she is steadfast: preparing everything, looking after the details, urging him on.
It is only afterward, when he is thoroughly damned, coldly vicious, that she finds she cannot wash Duncan's blood off from her hands.


Among other things, this play is the portrait of a good marriage, If, that is, a good marriage can be made in hell, I absolutely loved this play! Years after first adding this to my "Shakespeare" shelf, I finally sat down and did it.
So here, long overdue, is

The Scottish Play, abridged:

WITCHES: Bibbity bobbity boo! Time to fuck with the mortals!

DUNCAN: Isnt Macbeth great Now theres a guy I can always trust to have my back.
I should promote him.

MACBETH AND DUNCAN: WEEEEE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, MY FRIEEEENDS, YES WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, WEEEE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, NO TIME FOR

WITCHES: ThaneofGlamisandCawdorandFutureKingsayswhat

MACBETH: What

WITCHES: Oh, and Banquo, your kids are going to be kings someday.
Good luck working that one out! POOFvanish

BANQUO:, . . Dude.

MACBETH: Great news, honey! I meet these witches and they told me I was gonna be the thane of Cawdor and then BAM the king promoted me, and they also said I was gonna be king someday, so I guess Duncans going to make me his heir or something.


LADY MACBETH: Cool, Ill invite him over and then you can kill him,

MACBETH: Iwait, what

LADY MACBETH: KILL THE KING, YOU PUSSY!

DUNCAN: Hey, Macbeth, hows my favorite

MACBETH: I KEEL YOU!

DUNCANS SONS: GTFO

BANQUO: So anyway, son, apparently youre going to be king someday, but I dont really see how since now Macbeths the king, but anyway.
. .

ASSASSIN: I KEEL YOU!

BANQUOS SON: GTFO

MACBETH: Hey there, nice witches, I need some help.
I just saw Duncan's ghost and Ive been killing a lot of people and my wifes losing what few marbles she had to begin with

LADY MACBETH: THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE! THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE! I KEEL MYSELF offstage!

MACBETH: and Im not so sure about this whole prophecy thing anymore.


WITCHES: Dont sweat it, you cant be killed by any man born of woman, and you wont really be in trouble until the forest starts moving.


MACBETH: Wait, didnt something kind of like that happen in The Lord of the Rings

WITCHES: NO.
Also, watch out for Macduff,

MACBETH: Cool, Ill go kill his whole family now,

WITCHES: This is just too much fun, We should have thought of this years ago,

MACDUFF: Macbeth, you are SO going down,

MACBETH: Jokes on you, sucker! I cant be killed by anyone born of woman, and since Caesarians havent been invented youoh shit.


MACDUFF: I KEEL YOU!

WITCHES: More popcorn, Hecate

THE END,
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair, " highlights of this play include, but are not limited to:

the witches! they are the original halloween qweens.
they are serving some major spooky realness, also, they went and haunted a woman just because she wouldnt share her hazelnuts, that is the exact level of petty that i aspire to be,

lady macbeth. honestly, everything she says especially to her husband is so savage, she doesnt want to be a queen, she wants to be the queen, and her first scene is iconic, “unsex me. ” yaaassss. ditch those bonds of femininity, be the murderous biotch we all want you to be,

how someone born by a csection is the key factor for determining the outcome of pretty much everything.
soooo random. lol.

that the english army thought they could hide behind tree branches and sneak up on macbeth for a surprise attack.


the fact the macbeth believed it and actually thought it was the forest,

“what, you egg!” is now my goto insult,

.stars Still my favourite Shakespeare play I think so,
Languagewise, Shakespeare is always a master, He invented many a word and phrase that we all use even today, centuries later, But some of the stories and characters are better than others, Macbeth, in my opinion, sits near the top of the pile, The witches and their fateful prophecies, the bloody betrayals, the madness of Lady Macbeth, and the tragedy of Macbeth himself.
Bringing about his own prophesised downfall, step by step, Nothing short of genius. There are two reasons to love this play,

The first reason is Lady Macbeth, Man, that girl has got it goin on, Have you ever found yourself in the running for, say, a new position thats opened up at your company, a position for which youalong with one of your equally worthy colleagues, perhapsmight qualify You may not have given much thought to your professional advancement before, but now that this promotion has been dangled before you, it has ignited a spark of ambitious desire.
Imagine the possibilities! And it is just within your grasp, . . if only there were a way to edge out the competition, Maybe you could sabotage a project hes working on, Or you could discredit him by rumoring of his incompetence, Better yet, you could off him in the parking garage, But each of these strategies requires a certain level of gumption to execute, a level not everyone possesses, This is where it pays to be married to Lady Macbeth, All she would need is a mere mention of this potential uptick in your career path and shes off and running, drafting the schematics, telling you where to stand just outside the stairwell, across from his car, within easy reach of the tire iron lying in the corner that can be used while hes distractedly sifting through his keys.
Why doesnt she do it herself, you ask Well, why should she Its not her job, Her job is to support you, to boost your confidence, to supply that additional gumption, Youre the one who has to do the dirty work,

Lady Macbeth is an amazing character, Ive seen reviews on here that criticize her for being the morally reprehensible of the two protagonists, planting ideas in her husbands head that he would not have otherwise formed, encouraging him toward evil deeds that he would not have otherwise committed.
I disagree. She may have made a mistake helping to plan Duncans murder, but if anything Lady Macbeth is the one with her moral faculties still intactshe exhibits a profound sense of remorse at the end of the play that Macbeth recognizes as nothing short of an ailment for which to seek a cure.
While Macbeth is off slaughtering anyone who might threaten his regal standing, his wife is at home rubbing the fuck out of her hands until the blisters explode and she suffocates in a pool of her own pus.


The second reason to love this play is the eloquence of the language, There are passages in this play that describe human emotion so briefly yet so profoundly it triggers goosebumps, These are some of my favorites:

On expressing ones grief:
What, man! neer pull your hat upon your brows
Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak
Whispers the oerfraught heart and bids it break.


On not having enough gumption:
Yet do I fear thy nature
It is too full o the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it.


On contemplating ambitions worth:
Noughts had, alls spent,
Where our desire is got without content:
Tis safer to be that which we destroy
Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.


On being past the point of no return:
All causes shall give way: I am in blood
Steppd in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go oer.


On the futility of life:
Lifes 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.


On the finality of death:
Theres nothing serious in mortality:
All is but toys: renown and grace is dead
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.

I said in the comments section of my sitelinkHamlet review that I was preferring Hamlet to Macbeth.
While I think I prefer the character of Hamlet to that of Macbeth, I no longer stand by that statement in terms of the play itself.
Macbeth really is a masterpiece, What else can be said about Macbeth, An infinite amount of movies and theatre productions have been made of this most tragic of tragedies, most horrific of horror stories complete with witches and murder.
Lady Macbeth is one of literature's ultimate evil women and she can never manage to wash the blood off her hands such a fantastic psychological illustration of guilt has never been surpassed until perhaps Raskolnikov's dialogs with Sonya in Crime and Punishment.
A mustread and one of the greatest Shakespeare plays among so many titanic, staggering works,

The book begins with the three "weird sisters" who anticipate Macbeth's arrival, We then switch to Macbeth with his companions after a bloody, successful battle and see the illfated Banquo before, in the next scene, the two of them fall upon the weird sisters on the "blasted heath" and their fatal predictions are made as to the rise of Macbeth.
Banquo is barely affected other than the strangeness of the scene, but Macbeth is truly inspired, Critics have for centuries asked whether, without the weird sisters, Macbeth would have been capable of all the murders that will soon begin.
I feel that he already a smoldering piece of evil inside him like that in the toaster at the end of 'The Time Bandits' and that the weird sisters as well as Lady Macbeth gave him the final push towards action, without which it is possible that he would have remained a sort of evil reflection of Hamlet.


It never ceases to amaze me the power of the writing and the deep psychology of Macbeth and his deadly Lady.
Blind and bloody ambition. Are they avenging the world for her barren womb How close does Richard III come to Macbeths depravity The two stories are quite similar, but Macbeth is a bigger, grander character.
Stupendous literature.

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sitelinkShakespeare's Sexual Comedy by Hugh M, Richmond
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