who reads shakespeare ?

Question

okay someone please tell me what the books macbeth and othello are about be datailed this is for school and i hate reading im desperate haha

Answer 1

Wow that would take a while to describe.
I have only read Macbeth..
Well Macbeth and his friend Banquo are on their way somewhere one day and they meet 3 witches, which predict 3 things..
Cant remember the first two, but the third one is that Macbeth will be named King. Macbeth finds it strange since the king (duncan) has 2 sons.
He speaks to lady macbeth, which convinces him to kill Duncan.. so he does. And the heirs both flee, so Macbeth actually is named king...
But he feels guilty and it drives him crazy.
And then this other character (sorry cant remember the name, read it 3 years ago for my sats) decides to get rid of macbeth and so on...
macbeth finds the 3 witches and they predict 3 more things.. one of them is something like " you will only be killed when the forest starts moving).. cant remember what else. so macbeth relaxes since a forest cant move but that other character and his army desguise themselves as trees and when they walk they actually look like a forest moving..
lady macbeth kills herself i think during the play, and macbeths best friend banquo cant remember what happens to him, but he suspects macbeth of the murder of duncan.
so at the end, macbeth is killed for his great ambition to be king...
hope this helps somehow... xx

Answer 2

You should really read the plays yourself. It's often more work to try to understand them without doing the reading. If you need help understanding what you're reading, you should check out the study guides and the no fear Shakespeare guides on sparknotes. For Macbeth here are the links : http://nfs.sparknotes.com/macbeth/ and http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/macbeth/.
And for Othello: http://nfs.sparknotes.com/othello/ and http://nfs.sparknotes.com/othello/.

Answer 3

These are not books my dear. They are PLAYS !!

Othello is about insane jealously and murder. Hamlet is about
inner demons and betrayal.

This Shakespeare knows how to write!!

No one is going to tell you any more than this by the way. We don't DO kid's homework.

No kidding. I'm sure you ARE desperate.

Answer 4

I read Shakespeare when I was 13. He had a lot to say about discrimination and dysfunctional families and greed and love which you would find out if you read him. If you rely on someone else's assessment, you'll know what someone else thought, not Shakespeare. Read and enjoy as much as you can.

Answer 5

Macbeth was a war hero who came across 3 witches, and they prophecied that he would be honored in 3 ways, the last of which would be to become king.
He is freaked out by this and tries to ignore it. But then the first of the 3 honors comes true. He tells his wife, Lady Macbeth, about the prophecy and together they decide to make sure it comes true. In order to become king, Macbeth would have to kill the current King, Duncan. He invites Duncan to his castle for a banquet, where he plans to kill him using a dagger. He tries to back out at the last minute, because he loses his nerve but he eventually does it. He forgets to clean up after himself though, and Lady Macbeth has to go back to the room and plant daggers on the sleeping guards who were supposed to be guarding Duncan's room. Macbeth becomes king. He becomes a tyrant and is paranoid about everyone around him, and decides to kill his best friend, Banquo, by hiring people to kill him on a hunting trip with his son. Banquo is killed but his son survives. Macbeth begins to go mad with guilt and is haunted my Banquo's ghost. He calle upon the witches who assure him that no man born of woman can possibly kill him, and that he would not meet his end until the forest came to meet him at the castle. Macbeth decides he is invincible and kills Macduff's family, because he is also powerful and suspects Macbeth of foul play. Lady Macbeth goes mad and kills herself. Eventually Macduff gathers an army against Macbeth and gets them to march holding branches (note the forest now coming to the castle). Macbeth and Macduff fight one on one and Macbeth tells Macduff that he can't kill Macbeth because he cannot be killed by a man born of a woman. Macduff then reveals that he was not born, he was 'plucked untimely from his mother's womb'. He kills Macbeth. Lady Macbeth goes mad and kills herself.
By the way, you shouldn't refer to the play istelf as Macbeth, according to theatre superstition. Instead you should call it 'The Scottish play'. You may use the name Macbeth when refering to the character himself (or Lady Macbeht).

Answer 6

If you don't like reading go to SparkNotes.com search for the thing you're looking for. It will give you a summary of whatever it is you want.

Answer 7

you seriously need to read it. there's no way you'll survive with someone else's pitiful little survey.

for help go to this site
www.sparknotes.com