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Comparsion Of Macbeth And Polanski's Version

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After reading the original story, the play written by Shakespeare and watching two different movie adaptations by two different directors, it’s obvious that the same story can be told in different ways to meet different purposes. This will be influenced by the director, who will modify the original story depending on the circumstances such us trends, time and even from his own experiences. All this modifications make every adaptation unique and special. One of the biggest changes from Shakespeare’s version is the suppression of King James episode. It was included in the original play to please King James I and IV since this character was one of his ancestors. Neither Polanski nor Stewart had the necessity of pleasing him, so they omitted …show more content…

Nonetheless, in this movie, any of the kills are shown. This creates the illusion that the crime are much worse than they appear, so disgusting that the director find convenient to show them, augmenting MacBeth’s mad and evil auras. In every version, Macbeth takes the crown and from that point, his life goes downhill. Nonetheless, this can be presented in different ways: In the original stories, supernatural phenomena occur, such as he ghost dagger. These are created by the gods to punish him before he dies but in the most recent version the dagger is invisible for the audience. This detail changes the story, making Macbeth go crazy by himself, instead of the gods. In the first movie, the witches only appear in certain scenes, but in the second one, the witches are permanent. In the first version they are the connection between the magical and the real world. Meanwhile, in the second movie, the witches represent Macbeth’s conscience, that in the last moment lead him to give up and accept his destiny letting MacDuff kill

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