Hello everyone, today I would like to talk about how the play Macbeth is relevant to us nowadays as well as in back then.
In the play Macbeth written by Shakespeare, contains many themes that we can find in applications of nowadays. The greatest of these themes is the idea of power corrupts and loss of power. As we now that in the play Macbeth performs many crimes for the sake of not losing his power of ruling. He even thinks about murdering his friend Banquo and his son. Nowadays politicians from every country are in the favor of somehow being in power of ruling. We can see how politicians play games over their future by either lie about what they have done or make a political blackmail over their private life. Many leaders live the same feelings that Macbeth character had lived in the lines of the play. The concept of holding power can also be applied to the idea of having financial force. As we can see Macbeth is a play that will be passed to the future due to the ideas and concept that is was built on.
Very good point. The play itself is about how the past continues to affect the present, and cast a shadow over the future. And it certainly is true that the drama of Macbeth: ambition, blind power, violence, is one that keeps repeating in our modern times again and again. It is like a nightmare that we keep hoping we will awake from soon.
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