The last play by William Shakespeare was written 400 years ago. Many believe that he plays he wrote constitute the greatest things we have in the English language. The plays are a supreme literary achievement. Every nation of the world acknowledges Shakespeare as the greatest dramatist who ever lived. He is a respected man of the dramatic arts who wrote 37 plays, 154 sonnets and two long narrative poems. He is often called England’s national poet and “no vacation to Britain can be considered complete without a visit to Shakespeare’s hometown of Stratford-Upon-Avon. A tourist in London at any time may be able to find three or four theatres simultaneously presenting different Shakespearean works,” Alan Craven noted, an eminent literary scholar.
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Shakespeare presents us with the greatest range of human feelings that we have in literature and drama. The rhythm of iambic pentameter is pervasive throughout the play. This beat is the rhythm of life as it correlates with the beating of the heart. Throughout the play, Shakespeare uses effective imagery to portray the acts. Some examples of imagery that are used in Macbeth include violence, chaos, darkness, animals, dreams, visions, prophecy, blood, fate, weather and the crown. Rhyme is also used which assists in the remembrance and the understanding of the lines. The rhyme is mainly portrayed through the malevolent characters. All the lines of the witches are rhyming as evident in the line “when shall we meet again, in thunder, lightning or in rain. When the hurly-burly’s done, when the battles lost yet won. That will be ere the set of sun.” The rhyming lines from Lady Macbeth include her admission, “Naught’s had, all’s spent. Then our desire is gotten without content. Tis safer to be what we destroy than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.” Macbeth also uses rhyming lines in “Hear it not Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.” About 90% of the audience were illiterate during the 16th and early 17th century, therefore, his plays transcended education and the social class divisions. “His plays were written to be performed. He conceived in them what he felt an audience needs to
Shakespeare presents us with the greatest range of human feelings that we have in literature and drama. The rhythm of iambic pentameter is pervasive throughout the play. This beat is the rhythm of life as it correlates with the beating of the heart. Throughout the play, Shakespeare uses effective imagery to portray the acts. Some examples of imagery that are used in Macbeth include violence, chaos, darkness, animals, dreams, visions, prophecy, blood, fate, weather and the crown. Rhyme is also used which assists in the remembrance and the understanding of the lines. The rhyme is mainly portrayed through the malevolent characters. All the lines of the witches are rhyming as evident in the line “when shall we meet again, in thunder, lightning or in rain. When the hurly-burly’s done, when the battles lost yet won. That will be ere the set of sun.” The rhyming lines from Lady Macbeth include her admission, “Naught’s had, all’s spent. Then our desire is gotten without content. Tis safer to be what we destroy than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.” Macbeth also uses rhyming lines in “Hear it not Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.” About 90% of the audience were illiterate during the 16th and early 17th century, therefore, his plays transcended education and the social class divisions. “His plays were written to be performed. He conceived in them what he felt an audience needs to