![]() ![]() But to do so would be to miss the complexity introduced by Shakespeare in presenting them as being alike in the way they have been consumed by the passion of ambition. It has been the custom to think of Macbeth as a cowardly criminal and Lady Macbeth as the incarnation of the Devil, and consequently to think of them as being different in their attitude to crime. The noteworthy feature of this play is that the entire action centers around two terrible figures who dominate over the rest of the characters and push them into significance. Those are elements of "a classic" and of course no one questions that Shakespeare's Macbeth, written in 1606, still plays well today.-Submitted by Judy M ![]() Without realizing it they are both lost in the depth of the chasm they willingly stepped into. The tortuous guilty self-flagellation that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth succumb to is such a base human emotion. Macbeth captures the timeless nature of the human experience.There is greed for power, murderous evil scheming, and the nobility of the fight for good and evil. ![]()
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