Similarities Between Macbeth And Goold

Gina Marie Rivieccio
English 101 01
Professor Wright
9 December 2015
Macbeth And Rupert Goold’s Interpretation

In the 16th centaury play, The Tragedy of Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, the desire of a man’s rise to power left all of Scotland and several people in complete suffering. Macbeth’s hunger for control led to death and disorder amongst Scotland. Paranoia and guilt commenced, and Macbeth quickly became an unbearable dictator. Rupert Goold’s 2010 filmed version of Macbeth is an interpretation of Shakespeare’s original play. The selections Shakespeare made in The Tragedy of Macbeth will be compared to Goold’s filmed version. Though there were numerous similarities between Shakespeare and Goold’s works, such as they both …show more content…
The three witches’ characters followed the World War II war setting as well. Instead of the three women being witches, they were three nurses. Nurses’ replacing the witches was an interesting decision because it signified they helped people. Also, the nurses were gruesome. There were many bloody scenes they took part in. Goold’s selection of the witches as nurses made the World War II setting more prominent. Also, during the play, the nurses were then depicted as servants. The nurses were omnipresent and uncanny because of their ability to be everywhere. Though Goold successfully portrayed the witches as omniscient, frightening, and mysterious, there were several differences in comparison to Shakespeare’s version of the witches. Apart from the witches being nurses, a few of their actions varied from Shakespeare’s play. In Shakespeare’s play, Act 1 Scene 1 was opened with the three witches who wanted to meet with Macbeth and confront him, and then they quickly …show more content…
Here, the witches were presented with a dramatic entrance. Goold established the same exaggerated appearance, but added the lighting, which made it more overstressed and defined. In Goold’s version, when the witches appeared, a surge of light shined down on them. Therefore, both Shakespeare and Goold showed the witches dramatically, but Goold did this modernly with stage lighting, as opposed to Shakespeare who presented this with lightening and thunder. Throughout Goold’s Macbeth, lighting provided the viewer to focus on certain characters, while others were shadowed. This provided drama, and an unsettling view of the characters that were on

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