William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, is a play that portrays how Macbeth is easily convinced to cause dishonesty within his country. It is a play that includes ambition, fate and treachery and is a great example of tragic heroes. Shakespeare uses the elements setting, character development and themes to effectively spread the message to his audience. Macbeth is brightly brought to the 20st century in the film directed by Rupert Goold, however it takes place in a different century in Scotland in the story. Within the play the setting is often seen as pitch-black, where as Rupert Goold’s film shows the darkness more effectively with the use of modern technology. Although they both share the general storyline, they differentiate the setting, character…show more content… We feel pity for the tragic figure, Macbeth in his craze over ambition. In Act 1 in the play, he is a hero when he is crowned Thane of Cawdor and is admired for his bravery by the people of his country. Although the temptress of desire gets rid of his freedom of being a human being and him later on realizes towards the end in act 5 in his soliloquy. When Macbeth explains “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” (5.5.24-28) he is feared by others and he has given away his soul to evil. However in the film his laughter shown when he hears about his wife’s suicide, portray his lack of guilt and how selfish he has become. Macbeth’s desire for ambition through his soliloquies is presented when the camera focuses on the eyes of Macbeth. Goold emphasizes on the figurine such as Thane of Cawdor to show to the audience how Macbeth went from a loyal solider to out of control and desperate for his power. In the play he realizes what he has done and the guilt he feels haunts him back, but in the film he feels no shame as he keeps on lying and committing crimes. This takes away the element catharsis in a way that we feel pity for Macbeth in some scenarios but this leaves the audience not able to properly express their…show more content… the book are shown in different ways. In the film and play, the main focus and emphasis was on the theme power of uncontrolled ambition, however the way they were portrayed differentiates the film and book. With this theme the audience feels that Macbeth’s slaying of Duncan was unjustified. Macbeth feels the guilt, although he still goes on with this act which leads the audience to purge all these emotions about him. In the play Shakespeare mentions the killing of Duncan but there are no visualizations, the only proof of the crime were the knives and bloody hands of Macbeth after the execution. He had killed Duncan to get him out of his way to get his position for power. As said in the play “Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, the death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast” (2.2.32-37) it shows Macbeth feels he will never sleep again, however this was just the start. Later on in the play, he commits more murders as he gets selfish. In the film, after killing Duncan Macbeth hallucinates and Rupert shows the visualization clearly for the audience to understand. He uses several noises and images to show what Macbeth can do for his power. This leaves the audience feeling fear from Macbeth. The element catharsis is now experienced in a way that we
