Macbeth Movie Vs. Macbeth Play

Rating: 8/10 (20 February 2020)

In the play of Macbeth the witches are in the first scene and you hear from them first. The movie the first scene is Macbeth and Lady Macbeths dead sons burial. The witches are also portrayed as nasty creatures with beards and they are just gross but in the movie they are fairly clean and don't have beards. In the movie the witches are also dressed fairly well, wearing dark dresses. The witches also appear in the background of the movie when the prophecy were coming true but that never happened in the play. Hecate didn't say anything in the movie but in the play she had some lines. The endings where different as well. In the end of the movie a loose end that Shakespeare left out of the play was tied up in the movie. Fleance returns after Macbeth was killed and takes the sward that was sticking out of the ground. So Fleance was able to escape the murders.