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William Shakespeare was a British poet and playwright. He wrote mainly tragedies. Among the tragedies, Macbeth was one of his famous tragedy plays. Macbeth  was most likely written in 1606 .Mecbeth’s original text story is about t hree witches  who d ecide to deal with Macbeth on return from a war between Scotland and Norway. The witches predict that he will one day become king. Macbeth and his wife decide that he will murder Duncan. Then he murders Duncan assisted by his wife ,  who covers the blood of Duncan on the daggers of the sleeping guards. Macbeth kills the guards ,  insisting that their daggers smeared with Duncan's blood are proof that they committed the murder. The Macbeth becomes the king. More murders follow ,  and the ghost of Banquo appear s  to Macbeth. And Lady Macbeth's conscience now imagines that she can see her hands covered with blood. She commits suicide. Finally, Macduff kills Macbeth and Prince Malcolm <span style="font-family: SimHei; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">becomes king. In <span style="font-family: SimHei; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "맑은 고딕"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">this story’s major motifs and themes were blood and violence, weather and darkness, and the supernatural. <span style="font-family: SimHei; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "맑은 고딕"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">In the original text of Macbeth, 1st  blood and violence motif happens when Macbeth enters Duncan's room to murder him. Macbeth sees blood on the dagger <span style="font-family: SimHei; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "맑은 고딕"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">. Moreover in Macbeth, Duncan’s chamberlains, Banquo, Lady Macduff, and Macduff’s son all come to bloody and violen <span style="font-family: SimHei; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "맑은 고딕"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">t ends. “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?” ,   “Out, damned spot; out, I say. . . who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?” in these two quote <span style="font-family: SimHei; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "맑은 고딕"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">s, Blood comes to symbolize their guilt <span style="font-family: SimHei; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "맑은 고딕"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">. And I think Polanski's movie described <span style="font-family: SimHei; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "맑은 고딕"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"> the blood and violence motif best. In Polanski’s movie, very realistic scene about rape and, detailed scene when after the Duncan’s murders Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s feeling. And, the Japanese and Modern versions also described blood and violence motif. However, the Modern version wasn’t realistic and Japanese version wasn’t bloody at all. <span style="font-family: SimHei; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "맑은 고딕"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"> <span style="font-family: SimHei; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "맑은 고딕"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">The 2nd Weather and darkness motif occurs on the night that Duncan is murdered with thunder <span style="font-family: SimHei; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "맑은 고딕"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"> and lightning <span style="font-family: SimHei; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "맑은 고딕"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">. Furthermore, storms that goes along with the witches <span style="font-family: SimHei; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "맑은 고딕"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">. I think the Modern version described this well. Because, in the Japanese movie was just a black and white movie, and when the beginning of Polanski’s movie was quite darkness night setting and have some raining scene. Still that’s just normal dark and stormy weather and normal darkness. However, in the Modern version movie, most scenes were set in dark places, and people’s moods were like Vampires. <span style="font-family: SimHei; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "맑은 고딕"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"> <span style="font-family: SimHei; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "맑은 고딕"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">The last motif Supernatural is about three witches. I think Polanski’s movie described this well. Actually in Polanski’s movie, the witches were really weird, strange and creepy. However, in Modern version of Macbeth movie was kind of nice too. It was not that similar to original Macbeth text, but I think in this movie’s withes were stylish and wicked. By the way, still Japanese version of Macbeth movie was not good at all. It wasn’t even three witches also that witch was not scare or creepy at all. She was just an old bizarre grandmother. <span style="font-family: SimHei; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "맑은 고딕"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"> <span style="font-family: SimHei; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "맑은 고딕"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">Therefore, I think Polanski’s Macbeth movie was the most similar to original Shakespeare’s text. Nevertheless, I like the modern version of Macbeth movie.

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