Macbeth Essay, Research Paper

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was a man whose writings were of pure genius. William

Shakespeare love for writing was with him until the day he died. By the time William

Shakespeare died, he had written three dozen extraordinary plays and over 150 poems.

William Shakespeare’s MacBeth is by far one of the greatest tragedies ever written.

MacBeth is a tragedy about greed. If read with the hopes of finding knowledge within yourself,

MacBeth will teach you a lesson about the human condition.

In MacBeth, the images and representations of ambition, guilt, and the degradation of

being deliver a familiar understanding we all have within ourselves, which in turn helps us cope

or relate. William Shakespeare’s MacBeth leaves an everlasting affect on its audience, by using

superstition and magic. William Shakespeare wrote in situations and surroundings, which would

captivate his audience, much as strange phenomena still fascinates us today.

A passage from (Act V, Scene V) that signifies that life has no meaning was well said.

“Tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable

of recorded time. And all our yesterdays have but lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out

brief candle! Life is but a walking shadow, 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.”

MacBeth, in the end teaches his audience that having everything you want, but obtained

the wrong way means nothing when you realize your greed played a role in the death of the

person you