Thursday, October 24, 2013
Holinshed's Chronicles have all the characters that Shakespeare's Macbeth has. A key difference is the nature of the main character, Macbeth. In Holinshed's work, Mackbeth is one who enforces justice and fights for good, while Shakespeare's Macbeth is a power-hungry, blood-thirsty, terminator-esque mofo. How do you think that the nature of the main character changed the plot of the story? Are there other elements that made the two stories so different?
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I think that if Macbeth would have been the same in both the Holinshed's Chronicles and Shakespeare's version the plot of the play would be way different. Macbeth would not have killed all those people and he would not have been killed in the end.
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