Sunday, March 19, 2006


Macbeth

Last week, all of us have watched a movie, "Macbeth" which was written by none other than its famous author, William Shakespeare. The movie uses the original script by Macbeth and it starts with the scene where three witches, burying a hand on the seaside. Later, the audience are introduced with the main actor itself, Macbeth, a brave warrior who has just won a battle over the country's enemy.

Overall, I can say that this movie is a gory tragedy as there are lots of bloody scenes being portrayed. Macbeth, after being told by the three witches that he is going to be Thane of Cordor and the King of Scotland, murders his own King Duncan and conspires against his own friends to become the ultimate and powerful King of Scotland. For Macbeth and his wife, they think that they will get anything they ever desire if Macbeth become a King. Unfortunately, it is not long for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to come to realize that they have got the otherwise. They are very unhappy as their pass sins haunt them down.
The guilty conscience has made Macbeth a person deprived of sleep, meanwhile Lady Macbeth accumulates a habit of washing her hands! She always has hallucination of seeing her hands covered with Duncan's blood and that has depressed and built tension inside her. Here, the inner conflict inflict upon themselves as they are haunted by their pass sins. The guilty conscience also leads Lady Macbeth to her own death. In the movie, she is portrayed to have killed herself, after been mentally ill for a while. Lady Macbeth's death is followed by Macbeth's famous lament and soliloquy, a poem entitled "Life's Brief Candle".
In conclusion, Macbeth is a tragic figure as what he wants to be~ a King of Scotland lands him into a state which makes him an unhappy and disasterous monster!. In his way to become the ultimate king, he has murdered lots of innocent victims and he has created a lot of enemies. In the end, Macbeth is killed by Macduff, the one who was not born from a woman.

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