MACBETH - Underneath the Skin

It is important to mention beforehand the sources I have based my work on. Firstly, the film Macbeth – Reinado de Sangue, as the main supply in which I lay my comments on; and secondly, a translation on the original book Macbeth, held by Manuel Bandeira, as an additional source that surely has influenced my thoughts. Although I have used different communicative vehicles, I do not aim to develop a semiotic comparison, but a general analysis about one of Shakespeare’s masterpiece.

There are many speculations about the existence of a Macbeth pre-Shakespearean (J. M. Robertson), which assume that the writer had based his works – not only Macbeth - on several early peaces. English, Scottish and Irish Chronicles, by Rafael Holinshed, Lancastre and Iorque Nobel Families Union, by Eduardo Hall are mentioned as the main Shakespeare inspiring sources by Manuel Bandeira

Besides all these impressive characters, Macbeth would never be the same without the Three Witches. That they caused Maspeth’s insanity would never be known, but they absolutely played with his weakness and ambition. The weird sisters could be seen as the antonym of the wholly ghosts. Similarly, they are both three sides of one big entity, a good and a bad one though, which could justify their similar appearance, just like twins.

Macbeth is the drama of an ambitious Scottish king, willing to literally eliminate the ones who were against him. In order to achieve his first dark goal: to become a king, Macbeth and his wife set a plot to kill King Duncan. This part of the story can be considered the boundary-line between what I have called the humanized and the demonized Macbeth. Although this edge is a bit obscure, the character’s crisis is translucent to both reader and watcher. The protagonist is reluctant to materialize the filthy acts of killing and betraying the king. Thus, while he deals with this harsh doubt, a sensitive side of the character is revealed as he faces himself as a murderer and tastes the bitterness of guilty. However, his wife questions his masculinity and remarkably persuades him to complete the plan, and that is when he chooses his own disastrous path.

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