Analysis Of William Shakespeare's Macbeth

Macbeth is a play written by the famous author William Shakespeare. It is the shortest, yet one of the most popular plays Shakespeare has ever written. The play is about the rapid fall of a man named Macbeth. He commits murder to become king of Scotland and has anyone killed that gets in his way. Macbeth is a great play that shows how much people can change for power. It is a story of a man ruining his perfectly good life just because he was selfish with what he had. The plot of Macbeth is the downfall of a once noble man. It all begins with Macbeth and Banquo, two generals of the scottish military. They had just defeated two armies that were trying to invade. The two men encounter three witches who tell them a prophecy “All hail, Macbeth! hail to

It seems as if he wants things to be as creative and less obvious as possible. For example, after the king’s murder Macbeth asks his wife if she heard anything and she responds “I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry” (Shakespeare 22). This makes the reader think a bit, because they read scream and cry. Then they think about how owls do not scream and crickets do not cry. They are both extremely quiet. There is imagery shown after the death of Duncan when the Macbeth says “Here lay Duncan, his silver skin laced with his golden blood” (Shakespeare 21). Shakespeare writes that line to show the evil of Macbeth and to give the reader an image of what the King’s dead body looks like. Another quote of imagery by Banquo shows the reader what the witches look like. “You should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so” (Shakespeare 5). The imagery helps the reader to get a mental image of the ugly, manly looking witches. Another description Macbeth gives of King Duncan is “His gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature” (Shakespeare 21). He says this as part of convincing the people that the servants killed the