in Shakespeare’s play and one other performed version of the play. Bibliography: CGP GCSE English Macbeth by William Shakespeare The Complete Play Macbeth YORK NOTES ADVANCED William Shakespeare Cambridge School Shakespeare Macbeth Roman Polanski Film of Macbeth (1971) “ The Tragedy of Macbeth” Shakespeare portrays Macbeth at the start of the play as being a noble‚ loyal‚ courageous soldier who would fight for king and country. Duncan quotes “What he hath lost‚ noble Macbeth hath won” (Act
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pronounced the new king. Macbeth becomes an isolated individual and is eventually destroyed by his own arrogance. In Roman Polanski’s 1970 film Macbeth based on the play written by Shakespeare‚ Polanski adds scenes to the original story in order to make the film dark and sinister. The reason for Polanski making
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is undeniably a dark play‚ the tone of Polanski’s version is undoubtedly coloured by the death of his wife‚ Sharon Tate‚ and a group of friends‚ who were all murdered by members of the Manson Cult. This harrowing event occurred just months before Polanski began working on the Macbeth. Shakespeare The three Witches introduces the repetition of the paradox “fair is foul and foul is fair” (Act 1 Sc 1) and convey the theme of the disruption of the natural order. Macbeth echoes similar words just before
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Death and the Maiden Directed by Roman Polanski Death and the Maiden is the type of movie where everything is done a certain way for a certain reason. Director Roman Polanski’s genius portrayal of Ariel Dorfman’s stage play delivers a powerful and haunting message of human rights violations in an unnamed South American country coming to terms with the atrocities of its past after the fall of a fascist government. This film captivates audiences with its disturbing allegations and suspenseful
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The Pianist Directed by Roman Polanski Principal Actors: Adrien Brody‚ Thomas Kretschmann‚ Frank Finlay‚ Maureen Lipman Run-time: Two hours and twenty-nine minutes 1 Thousands of the stories about the German Nazi’s war atrocities during World War II have followed their Jewish victims into their make shift mass graves to be silenced
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The Polanski film Death and the Maiden is a wonderful and intelligent interpretation of Ariel Dorfman’s human rights problem play. Polanski has produced‚ in this film‚ an exceptional piece of direction‚ in which his own personal‚ emotional input is evident. The main theme of the play is an extremely personal one for both playwright (and scriptwriter) and director. Both Dorfman and Polanski have had to face and flee the horrors of dictatorship and human rights violations: Dorfman in Chile‚ under General
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version by Roman Polanski produced in 1970. Three major differences will be discussed. One difference between Shakespeare’s and Polanski’s version is the absence of the scene in England in Polanski’s version. In the Original MacBeth‚ MacDuff goes to England to convince Malcolm to return and fight MacBeth. The scene of the longest of the play; it is very drawn out and lengthy. Polanski simply eliminates this scene and shows Malcolm back in Scotland. The reason I feel that Polanski did this is that
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protagonists to explore a response to violent social change? A response to violent social change is explored within the two texts‚ Not Without My Daughter written by Betty Mahmoody‚ with William Hoffer and the film The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski. In these texts the authors use their protagonist to explore the idea and impact of the violent social change that these characters must survive. Protagonists‚ Betty in Not Without My Daughter and Wladyslaw in The Pianist respond to the violent
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Thirdly‚ a highly anticipated scene‚ the movement of the forest. After reading Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ one would be eager to find out how Polanski will portray the movement of the forest. However‚ the scene did not live up to its hype. The movement of the forest was not impressive. The scene lacked creativity
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Roman Polanski. One of the key ideas that appear throughout much of the film is that of ‘hope being instrumental in our survival’. This idea is portrayed through Wladyslaw Szpilman‚ a Polish pianist‚ as he struggles for survival in Warsaw as everybody that he once knew and everything that he once had is lost. The idea of ‘hope being instrumental in our survival’ is worth learning about as it allows the audience to realise the importance of hope in todays society – and to understand how Polanski uses
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