After reading Macbeth I found I was reminded, once again, of how much Shakespeare enjoys killing people in most of his stories. It seems that if he isn't making it comical then it has to be tension filling with the use of death. Othello is also a good example of this. Besides that I didn't think Macbeth was too bad of a story. It kept me interested on what would happen next and it was a different kind of story because of the fact that a main character becomes a insane murderer fairly quickly at the beginning of the story. I have to admit though, Lady Macbeth started to annoy me due to the fact that she would give her husband so much trouble about being a man and tell him to do the bad deeds yet she wasn't even following through to what she said she would do herself. Next thing you know she is going around, unable to really sleep, feeling guilty even though she was the one to push everything forward in the first place. She bit off more than she can chew and was quickly becoming a hindrance more than a support for her now evil husband.
I also ended up wondering what kind of twisted view of a 'man' they used to have back then. From what I got from the story a lot of people thought that if you were able to never show sadness and can kill someone then you are considered a man. That is a little twisted, in my opinion, but the entire story of Macbeth seems to be filled with twisted people anyways. I loved the fact how Macbeth went to the witches and got the prophesies which left the reader wondering how the story will end since it seemed impossible for those prophesies to happen. I thought it was clever how Shakespeare handled that in the end.
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