Macbeth Movie Comparison

When you finish reading Shakespeare’s Macbeth, you feel bad for the Macbeth for what he has become. Macbeth was a man with a great future ruined by outside sources. Throughout the play Macbeth changed from a noble soldier and turned into a memory of his past self. Every moral that Macbeth had at the beginning of the play changed in his rise and fall as a king. He was a great military leader but when he was promised the crown by the witches, and his demanding wife pushed him to the edge he began to make poor decisions. You can certainly feel sympathy for Macbeth based upon how he is treated throughout the play by other characters.

Instead of Macbeth being Thane of Glamis, he is a high-class chef of a well-renowned restaurant in the middle of London. The environment in Shakespeare Retold has changed from a Shakespearean era to the 21st century. Both Macbeth and Joe have high positions that will eventually lead to their downfall. Both the play and the film emphasize on the same values and they demonstrate how ambition and greed drive a human to their insanity and madness. For example, in Shakespeare Retold, Joe was introduced as a kind, jovial person who as a chef himself taught his fellow cooks how to properly make food. His desire to secure his throne, in this case, the main chef, made him disoriented and was breaking plates, and burning food, something he wouldn't do before. The loving aura changed and it was just filled with chaos, in which the environment was not a place where his workers wanted to be. The change of scenery from the kitchen to an ominous night was effective in such that viewers could see that it meant something bad was about to happened. Lastly, at the end of the film, the kitchen in a highly renowned restaurant was not as luminous as before. The lights were turned off by Joe, and this is where we could see that he was beginning to shut himself down.

William Shakespeare’s masterpiece, Macbeth, is a tragedy brilliantly brought to the 21st Century by Rupert Goold. Although Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a play set in 16th Century Scotland, Rupert Goold modernizes the play by changing the setting to a Soviet-styled country and implementing modern elements into the characters and theme. Although Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Rupert Goold’s film adaptation share many ideologies and a general storyline, a difference exists in the setting, the characters, and the overall ambience of the story.

“Macbeth” and “Macbeth retold” by Mark Brozel, share many comparisons yet have many vital differences.

There are many differences between interpretations of William Shakespeare's MacBeth. This essay wall contrast Shakespeare's original version and a movie version by Roman Polanski produced in 1970. Three major differences will be discussed.

Macbeth is a play about a Scottish general (Macbeth) who receives a prophacy from three witches that states that one day, he wil become the king of Scotland. This makes Macbeth power hungry so he decides to murder the current king of Scotland, Duncan. As people grow more and more suspicious of who killed Duncan, Macbeth is forced to commit more murders in order to protect himself from being exposed. This leads to him becoming filled with paranoia and guilt, which ultimately is his major downfall. Shakespeare wrote this play in 1606 to make people realize that excessive ambition can have terrible consequences. Both the play and the movie incorporate murders into telling the story of Macbeth, but they do so in different ways.

Near the end of the play Macbeth surpasses Lady Macbeth in ambition, strength, and insanity. He hires people to kill his best friend, Banquo and his son Fleance, because he doesn't want the rest of the prophecy to come true. However, Fleance escapes meaning the rest of the prophecy can come true. After hiring hit men to kill Banquo he hallucinates again and sees Banquo's ghost at the dinner table. He then proceeds to have Macduff's family killed by murderers just to get back at Macduff for fleeing the country. Macbeth's peak ambition and strength comes at the end of

Macbeth, is a film that was made in 2015 and was directed by Justin Kurzel. The screenplay used for the movie was written by Todd Louiso, Jacob Koskoff, and Michael Lesslie. On the other hand, the screenplay was adapted by William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth. William Shakespeare wrote this play back in 1606. The film and the play have some differences, some being small details that were just added by the writers of the screenplay. However, because this film is based on William Shakespeare’s play, there are also many similarities. A difference that stood out in the movie was the opening scene, where it shows a burial being held for what the audience can assume is Macbeth’s son. What I noticed throughout the film was that the storyline was based off of what was taking place in the movie (actions), rather than what

“Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own” (Honoré de Balzac 98). Honré de Balzac is a French author and playwright, his quote is from one of his well known novel, Pere Goriot, in which a wealthy merchant sacrifices everything for his daughters. In William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth and Jon Krakauer’s book Into the Wild, the main characters have not realized that there is more happiness in another’s happiness than their own and are very self oriented. In Shakespeare’s work, the protagonist Macbeth is bent on gaining power, so he kills King Duncan in hopes of becoming the new monarch, which results in many destroyed relationships. While Macbeth is king, guilt and paranoia eat at him, resulting in Macbeth murdering even more people. Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, features Chris McCandless, an unhappy college student, who leaves his home and family to hitchhike across the United States and ultimately ends up dead. On his epic adventure McCandless survives on only the necessities, creates and breaks many friendships and even though he doesn’t murder friends like Macbeth, he still deeply hurts them. Shakespeare and Krakauer’s characters exhibit the sacrifice needed to accomplish their goals through giving up one’s health for a greater cause and breaking relationships for one’s own gain.

The play Macbeth is a story in which many different themes are represented. A man named Macbeth becomes king of Scotland by murdering the former king, which leads to further violence, deceit, and corruption. It’s a story with different characters who personify power, deception, manipulation, and loyalty. Although it is certainly a very unique story, it also shares some similarities with the movie Mean Girls. Despite the different time periods, the plot and characters in Mean Girls truly reflect that of Macbeth. Between these two stories, there are several themes including deception, appearance vs. reality, and manipulation.

“ Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned that the world can be a very

“Macbeth” by William Shakespeare and “A Tale Of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens are two classic pieces of literature with the most unforgettable stories and characters. Two characters included within these books are Madame Defarge of “A Tale Of Two Cities” and Lady Macbeth of “Macbeth” ,both posing as prevailing female characters. Madame Defarge has been created as a stong but unchanging character, whereas Lady Macbeth was formed as a stong but compelling character. Though these characters may be portrayed differently, they are developed the same way, through the same technique. In the books, “A Tale Of Two Cities” and “Macbeth”, the most common way the two characters, Lady Macbeth and Madame Defarge, were characterized was their attitudes and how their perspectives changed with given circumstance throughout the book. Though the two have traits on the opposite spectrum they both were developed the same way.

“Macbeth” a play written by William Shakespeare depicts how a courageous warrior Macbeth kills, King Duncan with the help of his wife in order to become the King of Scotland after the revelation of three prophecies from three witches that

In life, there are many natural tragedies that can strike a person and completely change their lives. Then there are people who are the cause of said tragedies and these people are often inflicted upon by a conflicting emotion; guilt. Guilt is an internal struggle that can lead to serious medical conditions such as depression or becoming suicidal. In both the Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, and the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, the main characters all face situations in which a great amount of guilt is put upon them. In order to deal with the guilt, Amir, from the Kite Runner and Macbeth and Lady Macbeth from Macbeth, have diverse initial reactions, similar coping mechanisms and opposite approaches to the final submission. It is

To understand Shakespeare’s tragic play, Macbeth it is necessary to fully comprehend the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. The differences between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are profound. Over the course of the play, Shakespeare skillfully changes the role of the two characters. Macbeth is frightened at the beginning then confident at the end while Lady Macbeth confident at the beginning and frightened at the end.