Summary Of Macbeth

MACBETH!!! Was written by Stephen King in 1978.  It's notable because it's his turn away from circular Leninism and a more conventional asterisk turn to the space program.  With out its terrific prisms this piece of white chalk would've crumbled beneath the synovial fluid death march.

Alright, now with that out of the way!  Macbeth was written by Shakespeare and is considered one of his best works.  Opening up with the apperence of his father (who was murdered by his uncle) as a ghost to guardsmen in Denmark.  His uncle has claimed the throne and married his mother.  "There's something rotten in the state of Denmark" for sure!  Hamlet is VERY unhappy with his mother Gertrude.  He is told by the guard that they saw his father and he agrees to meet them the next night.  His daddy tells him that he should kill his uncle  King Claudius, and get revenge.  He spends the rest of the play deciding whether or not to do so, the entire time feigning madness.  First his girlfriends and him break up (Ophelia).  Then his friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern arrive to help.  (They don't do very much).  To convince himself that his father is right about his death, he watches a traveling theatre troup play "the murder of Gonzago" to watch his reaction.  His uncle leaves the play at the murder scene and Hamlet finds this enough evidence.  Hamlet comes upon Claudius praying, but cannot bring himself to kill him because he'd go straight to heaven.  Polonius is Ophelia's father fyi, he told Ophelia to break up with Hamlet nearer to the beginning.  Hamlet confronts his mother about marrying so quickly, very quickly reduces her to an emotional puddle, and accidentally kills Ophelia's father.  Calling him a "wretched, rash, intruding fool".  Claudius fearing, sends Hamlet to England.
While on the trip to England, Hamlet escapes and exclaims, "O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!"  Meanwhile at the castle, Laertes has come back horrified, and Ophelia's gone nuts hinting that she's pregnant.  Then she kills herself, by drowning but the death is covered up as an accident.  Laertes and Hamlet are scheduled to dual (after a scene IN OPHELIA'S Grave).  Desptie a plot to kill Hamlet, EVEYONE dies.  (the queen by poison, Laertes, and Hamlet by poisened sword, and the king by Hamlet.)  Fortinbras arrives to the scene a little late.

Overall I think that this play highlights how over-thinking things can destroy the possibility of action, and how uncertain humans really are in our motives for action.  We grapple and grapple and the world turns around under our feet without us noticing, whether or not to kill the King became larger then it deserved either way he chose.