Account for the lasting appeal for the play (Macbeth)

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Account for the lasting appeal for the play

In this essay I am going to explain why 'Macbeth' is still such a popular play to watch. This play has many different appeals that have made it so popular even though it was written 400 years ago. I am going to tell you about the different themes, staging and how rhymes and language come into effect. These points will prove why 'Macbeth' has had such a lasting appeal.

One of these appeals is the fact that there are so many themes in the play; this keeps the audience interested throughout the whole play. One of these themes is ambition, this is the main theme as it drives most of the passion that they play has as it makes the eventual downfall of Macbeth. Ambition makes him kill the king as after thinking of all the reasons not to kill Duncan the two things keeping him even thinking about it is ambition and Lady Macbeth, but Lady Macbeth can get him to kill the King by the ambition being there in the first place. 'I have no spur... but only vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself' (I, v, 25-27). These lines