The Scottish Play
25 08 2006
It’s been years since I have read Macbeth and I remember going off in Year 11 to see Roman Polanski’s film of it at the local cinema and finding it brutal.
So I don’t claim any expertise when it comes to the Scottish play.
However it strikes me that some of the really interesting themes in the story are about ambition, responsibility, and loyalty.
Especially when it comes to responsibility you can probably argue for a number of characters contributing to Macbeth’s foul deeds including, of course, Macbeth. Four hundred years after it was written I think Macbeth is interesting for discussing the issues of who contributes to what behaviour and who shares (or doesn’t share) responsibility for what you do.
