Shakespeare’s play ‘MacBeth’ is still relevant to today’s audiences partly because human nature hasn’t changed that much since Elizabethan times. The play’s themes still concern us, guilt, shame, hierarchy, anxiety,paranoia, trauma, distress, mental illness, psychological vulnerability, jealousy, envy, inferiority, manipulation, psychosis, greed and murder - all are sadly present in the societies we watch every night on our news channels. For an essay title based on the relevancy of the drama, it would be worth finding a quote or an instance of each theme, and then trying to match it with an example from current events. Wherever there is hierarchy, there will always be a pecking order and all the gripes, grudges and grumbles that go along
