danielgiraffe's review against another edition
5.0
I loved this play!!!! I didn't think I'd like this play but having reading it, this is definitely one of my favorite Shakespeare plays. This play is about the ambition one has for power, evil, and revenge. The icing to the cake was Lady Macbeth: the powerful bad bitch that deceives her husband that wears both pants to the relationship. But what captivated me the most was the plot & the language Shakespeare uses in the power couple of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
faiththompson416's review against another edition
4.0
all this could've been avoided if Macbeth had just put his bros first
theheid's review against another edition
4.0
“Out, out, brief candle. Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
“What’s done cannot be undone.”
“False face must hide what false heart doth know.”
“Duncan is in his grave. After life’s fitful fever, he sleeps well.”
“You lack the season of all nature’s, sleep.”
“Macbeth doth murder sleep, therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more, Macbeth shall sleep no more.”
“Will these hands ne’er be clean?”
Shakespeare masterfully addresses themes of guilt, ambition, forgiveness, condemnation, and supernatural influence versus personal choices. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth exemplify the tragedy of lives lived with deceit, evil, and the hopelessness of sin with no repentance or forgiveness.
This remains one of my favorite works of Shakespeare. Each time I read it, I am moved to thankfulness that life does not have to be meaningless, and that through Jesus, forgiveness is offered for even the most heinous of sin.
“What’s done cannot be undone.”
“False face must hide what false heart doth know.”
“Duncan is in his grave. After life’s fitful fever, he sleeps well.”
“You lack the season of all nature’s, sleep.”
“Macbeth doth murder sleep, therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more, Macbeth shall sleep no more.”
“Will these hands ne’er be clean?”
Shakespeare masterfully addresses themes of guilt, ambition, forgiveness, condemnation, and supernatural influence versus personal choices. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth exemplify the tragedy of lives lived with deceit, evil, and the hopelessness of sin with no repentance or forgiveness.
This remains one of my favorite works of Shakespeare. Each time I read it, I am moved to thankfulness that life does not have to be meaningless, and that through Jesus, forgiveness is offered for even the most heinous of sin.
jenessabrooke's review against another edition
5.0
I've watched this play performed a few times but this was the first time I've ever read the play. I was assigned to read it for one of my literature classes and we are still discussing it in class. I thoroughly enjoyed it, though it is a very creepy and dark play. I listened to the audiobook as I read it in order to help me imagine how the players would say their lines. The play seemed fitting to read during October, with it's iconic witches. I enjoyed the play overall.
semilee0's review against another edition
5.0
I liked this play, but not nearly as much as Romeo and Juliet. It was quite thrilling, but I felt the characters were a little underdeveloped and the plot a little murky. Otherwise, it was a great way to get your heart beating out of your chest with nerves, as is Shakespeare's specialty.
natashamontgomery's review against another edition
3.0
[3 stars]
If I were to give a more emotional rating for this Shakespeare classic it would have, if I were to be sooth, been 2 stars and the reason for this is Goodreads' labels behind each star rating. I found this play to be ok. I didn't care for any of the characters particularly nor the story as I did in Othello and certainly not as I did in Romeo & Juliet (my favourite Shakespeare to date). My only reason for giving Macbeth 3 stars instead of 2 is because Shakespeare's prose is nothing short of gorgeous, as usual. It feels unfair to rate Macbeth anything lower than such an indifferent rating as 3 stars.
I will be studying this play later in the year so I thought it would be good to read ahead and, in retrospect, I am very happy with this decision and hope to grow to love this story on a second and possibly third reading as I have not yet before. I am one of those people who like studying the crap out of books and develop a deeper appreciation and love of literature through study.
Overall, the characters, although complex, did not leave a mark in contrast to Mercutio or Iago from the other plays mentioned. The story as well didn't grip me so I was left hesitant to pick up the play and so started reading other books whilst reading which is never a good sign being a reader who prefers to read a book at a time to devote all my attention to a work and thus gather a more thorough understanding of the book and a more concentrated opinion.
I look forward to the next play of Shakespeare's to read...
“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
If I were to give a more emotional rating for this Shakespeare classic it would have, if I were to be sooth, been 2 stars and the reason for this is Goodreads' labels behind each star rating. I found this play to be ok. I didn't care for any of the characters particularly nor the story as I did in Othello and certainly not as I did in Romeo & Juliet (my favourite Shakespeare to date). My only reason for giving Macbeth 3 stars instead of 2 is because Shakespeare's prose is nothing short of gorgeous, as usual. It feels unfair to rate Macbeth anything lower than such an indifferent rating as 3 stars.
I will be studying this play later in the year so I thought it would be good to read ahead and, in retrospect, I am very happy with this decision and hope to grow to love this story on a second and possibly third reading as I have not yet before. I am one of those people who like studying the crap out of books and develop a deeper appreciation and love of literature through study.
Overall, the characters, although complex, did not leave a mark in contrast to Mercutio or Iago from the other plays mentioned. The story as well didn't grip me so I was left hesitant to pick up the play and so started reading other books whilst reading which is never a good sign being a reader who prefers to read a book at a time to devote all my attention to a work and thus gather a more thorough understanding of the book and a more concentrated opinion.
I look forward to the next play of Shakespeare's to read...
“Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under it.”