There are only two other actors, who portray doctors commenting on his madness. Set in a psychiatric ward, Cumming plays a deeply disturbed man who impersonates almost every character in the show, occasionally leaving clues as to who the patient is, why he is recounting this story, and what has led him to become so tortured. The 2013 Broadway production starring Alan Cumming.One BBC television adaptation, which also happened to include Patrick Stewart in the title role in a setting based on Communist Russia during the time of Joseph Stalin.Malcolm's speech to Macduff has been read as a Sarcastic Confession by some.The 2015 film suggests that Macbeth is suffering from PTSD due to the horrors of war he had experienced, while Lady Macbeth is also grieving for their dead child. ![]() Why do the witches have beards? Is it a mutagenic side effect of their connection to the supernatural? The source of said connection? Is it just Shakespeare yet again poking fun at the fact that all characters were played by men in his day?.The Witches - are they orchestrating all the events to bring discord and chaos to the kingdom (as Orson Welles's film suggests)? Or are they slaves to their own prophecies who have to give Macbeth this information because this is how it's supposed to happen?.Lady Macbeth: (breaking down in tears) I really. Sassy Gay Friend: Lady, you need a hobby or an orgasm, stat. According to Sassy Gay Friend, Lady Macbeth doesn't particularly want to be queen.Was Duncan a good king or was he just a tyrant and everyone else who were loyal to him just loyalists?.How about just throwing out the play's depiction of the witches as crones and interpreting them as standard Hecate Sisters? After all, their name is mentioned several times in the dialogue.The historical basis for Donalbain seized the throne after his brother's death ahead of their children. Is he just a hired sword doing what he's told? Is he just siding with the more likely winner? Did he not anticipate the horror of what would happen to Lady Macduff and her children, and joined Macduff to make amends? Donalbain meanwhile visits the witches' hovel at the end - implying he'll either go down the same path that Macbeth did, or else he'll punish the witches for setting forth the events in the first place. Ross is given Adaptational Villainy so that he helps participate in the murder of Banquo and Macduff's family (as well as killing the first set of murderers for failing to get Fleance too) - but then switches sides so that he fights for Macduff's side. Roman PolaĆski's film interpretation has a rather cynical interpretation of the characters Ross and Donalbain. ![]() The essay specifically compares him to Edmond from King Lear in a scenario where Edmond survived to an older age.
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