ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Macbeth (/məkˈbɛ/, full title The Tragedie of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power.

Detailed explanation-2: -Macbeth dramatizes the psychological and physical damaging effects caused by the political ambition of those who look for power just for their own sake. The driving force in this tragedy is the ambition, or more specifically, the ambition that goes unbridled by any theory of morality.

Detailed explanation-3: -In addition, Macbeth is a political play in that it deals with the Scotland’s power and political intrigue (a secret plan to do something evil). year after the Gunpowder Plot. The famous gunpowder plot was when a man named Guy Fawkes and his men tried to blow up James and his parliament in 1605.

Detailed explanation-4: -1 Most readers view Macbeth as a tyrant whose violent occupation of the Scottish throne represents an aberration from Scotland’s usual, and therefore also sacred, political order. On this view Macbeth’s defeat by Macduff returns Scotland to its rightful order in both the human and natural worlds.

Detailed explanation-5: -Macbeth is a play about ambition run amok. The weird sisters’ prophecies spur both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to try to fulfill their ambitions, but the witches never make Macbeth or his wife do anything. Macbeth and his wife act on their own to fulfill their deepest desires.