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The tragedy of Macbeth

It’s well known that William Shakespeare is a famous and great dramatist who has wrote many splendid dramas. If someone ask us what his four tragic dramas are，we may blurt out Hamlet,Othello, King Lear, Macbeth without hesitation. All of the works could show S hakespeare’s great achievement in writing. I’m sure that most people are familiar with the classic sentence “To be or not to be, that’s a question” from Hamlet.

The tragedy of Macbeth was the last tragic drama of four, which was wrote in 1606. It represented the tragedy of destiny and man’s character. The story was happened in Scotland and England. The leading character was named Macbeth who was regarded as a hero of Scotland by people after beating King Norway’s army for defending Scotland, and King Lear wanted to give him rich awards and great honor. But it was sad that in the meantime Macbeth came across three ugly witches in the wild who attempted wickedly to tempt Macbeth to commit. They told Macbeth he would be The Thane of Cawdor soon and the king of Scotland eventually, but the bad thing was it was his friend Banquo’s sons, not his sons, who would be the king of Scotland after Macbeth. At the beginning, Macbeth thought this was unbelievable and felt really confused.

Before long King Duncan sent his nobleman Angus and Lennox to transmit his order that Macbeth was to be ennobled as The Thane of Cawdor soon. Obviously，Macbeth was so surprised and excited that he

held the foolish view that the three witches’ prediction was true. Hence he wrote a letter to tell his wife what the three ugly witches had said to him and they premeditated to kill King Duncan to displace him. Perhaps it was a wrong coincidence that King Duncan and his servants went to Macbeth’s castle for a rest one night. Therefore，Macbeth got a good chance to rebel. The couple inebriated the two gatekeepers in King Duncan’s room and killed King Duncan noiselessly with their swords in the midnight. When the morning awaked the people in the castle，everything surely been known in a little time. Macduff, the nobleman of Scotland, was the first who found King Duncan being killed. To conceal the truth, Macbeth made people mistakenly think that King Duncan was killed by the two gatekeepers and killed them immediately without asking others.

Soon after Macbeth been the king of Scotland successfully, but he also worried about what the three witches had told him. So he must kill his friend Banquo and Banquo’s sons to guarantee his sons would be the king after him. One night his conspiracy succeeded again, Banquo was killed by Macbeth’s flunky. But as an old saying goes“What is done by night appears by day.”Some people including Macduff gradually doubted that Macbeth was the rebel who killed King Duncan to usurp the power. As a loyal nobleman of King Duncan, he absconded to England secretly to find Prince Malcolm, King Duncan’s son. While Macbeth known it, he