Macbeth
Shakespeare compressed ambition, guilt, and self-destruction into his shortest, most intense tragedy.
“Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?”
Why It Matters
Shakespeare compressed ambition, guilt, and self-destruction into his shortest, most intense tragedy. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's partnership in murder — and its rapid disintegration — is the definitive portrait of how evil corrodes the people who choose it. "Out, damned spot" and "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" are permanently embedded in the English language.
The 
Take
Personal reviewThe witches are great, the pure evil of Macbeth is great. The end all be all is a great phrase. The signifying nothing paragraph is sweet. Macduff is the man. I feel bad for sweet banquo
Notable Quotes
“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!”
“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.”