Shakespeare's Macbeth, A Cinematic Discussion

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Dear Friends, 

I have presented a cinematic discussion on Macbeth on my YouTube Channel, APN'S EDUCREATIONS. I fervently hope the video will help all my students in their preparations. In this blogpost I pen down the transcript of my video which will serve as an invaluable note to answer questions on Shakespeare's Macbeth. Click the given link to visit the video

Shakespeare's Macbeth, Odisha State Model Syllabus, English Honours. - YouTube

"Macbeth is a play of unbridled ambition and regicide.

Power has a price and it is paid in blood.

When ambition goes unrestrained without moral restrictions, destruction results.

Macbeth is a classic tale about an ambitious Scottish lord who seizes the throne with the help of his wife, Lady Macbeth.

Macbeth is not naturally inclined to commit evil deeds but he deeply desires power and the throne. His inordinate desire for power has a great price and, in the play, it is paid in blood.

Macbeth tells the story of a brave Scottish general (Macbeth) who receives a prophecy from a trio of sinister witches that one day he will become king of Scotland. Consumed with ambitious thoughts and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and seizes the throne for himself. He begins his reign haunted by guilt and fear and soon becomes a tyrannical ruler. His guilt and his paranoid mental state now force him to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion. Macbeth’s insecurities, his guilt complex and fear for punishment result in the murder of Banquo. Macduff’s wife and children in a series of heinous crimes. This bloodbath and consequent civil war rapidly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of madness and death.

Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a play with a difference. This is the only play where he has introduced the witches. It is the only play where the hero turns into a villain. It is the only play in which poetic justice is meted out. 

Temptation begets sin. And sin begets unresolved inner conflicts. Out of unresolved inner conflicts, there comes a series of irrational behavior that finally meets an inevitable punishment. "

 With Love,

APN SIR