The image was taken from Roman Polanski's 1971 Macbeth. This is his representation of part of scene two from act two. In this picture, Macbeth is in King Duncan’s bedchamber, in which he is liquidating Duncan by perforating his body with a small dagger, Macbeth has also incapacitated Duncan with his body weight so that Duncan is helpless to defend himself. While the movie by Polanski unveils exactly what happened during the assassination of Duncan meticulously, the play written by Shakespeare simply signifies the death of Duncan with just “enter Macbeth, carrying two bloodstained daggers,” and “I [Macbeth] have done the deed,” limiting the referencing from Roman’s interpretation and Shakespeare’s original play. This scene alone is able to depict the entire play. It shows the majority of the themes in Macbeth; good and evil, appearances often hide reality, the effect of ambition on people, and the overthrow of the natural order. Additionally, Macbeth’s assassination of King Duncan is the provenance of the entire play - without …show more content…
Killing the king was one of the most evil and morally incorrect things during the time of the play, it was one of the laws considered to be the most forbidden to break, and Macbeth, nonetheless breaks it for his own ambitions. His ambitions were sparked by the witches in the previous scenes, then enhanced by Lady Macbeth, and finally, when he kills Duncan, it shows how strong the effects of ambition were on Macbeth, someone who was courageous, brave and loyal. When Hecate appears in scene five from act 3, she firstly criticises the witches saying “how did you are to trade and traffic with Macbeth, and then proceeds to order them to “meet me i’the morning,” demonstrating her superiority and power. This scene shows that even the witches, the embodiment of evil, has to obey the natural order of a superior being, but Macbeth breaks the natural order of things by killing