Macbeth is one of Shakespeares four great tragedies.encompassing witchcraft, bloody murder, ghostlyapparitions as well as high poetry, blended in such away as to demonstrate the assured dramatic touch ofShakespeares maturity.Macbeths tragedy is that of a good. brave andhonourable man turned into the personification of evilby the workings of unreasonable ambition.

Macbeth is one of Shakespeares greatest tragedies: a drama of crime and punishment, of temptation, guilt, remorse and retribution. The portrayals of Macbeth himself and his wife are memorably persuasive in the rendition of the psychology of ambition,rationalised treachery and eventual disillusionment. Repeatedly the rich and often sinuously complex verse gives general resonance to the particular situation, so that some of the speechesprovide enduring epitomes of states of being which many of us,intermittently, may experience. Inner division, pangs of conscience, the sense of being ambushed by events, and desperatedefiance: they are there; but so too is a vitality of expression and enactment which offsets the plays sombre atmosphere.

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