“There’s a difference.” That may be a phrase you hear a lot these days, but how does this affect real life? It can affect many different things, including the book Macbeth, by Shakespeare himself. Macbeth’s story can vary by who tells it or what setting it has. BBC retold the story in 2005 in which they modernized the story to a chef. Macbeth changes as the story's setting is put in place and by the amount of parts in the story are taken out, changed, or added. BBC’s retelling of MacBeth has many changes from the original. In BBC’s recreation of Macbeth, the main character, Joe Macbeth, is a head chef at a well known restaurant in what can be assumed the country of Great Britain. Joe and his friend, Billy Banquo, portrayed as Banquo, Macbeth’s …show more content…
The recreation they made had the witches being men with makeup and facial prosthetics to make them seem strange. They also wear gowns to display the witches as females. In the book, they appear as just witches. But in Folger’s recreation they are appearing as a sort of interdimensional or mythological creature. The addition of this change gives off a creepier vibe or mood compared to the original as they act strange as if they are possessed. When the witches reappear to tell MacBeth his 3 new prophecies just like in the book and these prophecies are the same. The change however is how the witches deliver the new prophecies, as instead of it being an apparition or some sort of master, it is just the witches telling him what his 3 prophecies are. When he asks to speak with the witches masters, nothing changes to show that the apparitions are actually talking or influencing the witches in any way. In other recreations like the PBS one, there are bodies that seem to be dead but end up waking up to tell Macbeth his prophecies. The change is that it is just the witches acting like they can hear their higher power and are repeating their