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e Year 10 GCSE English Coursework: Media Compare the two films of Macbeth. How do they differ and in what ways are they similar? Which film do you prefer and why? William Shakespeare wrote Macbeth the play. Many directors in their own style have interpreted this ....

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.... on cinema. The modern version was made for the BBC to be put directly on TV for England. Both films tell a story of Macbeth. Three witches prophecy that he will be King and this leads him to kill Duncan the King of Scotland. He becomes more and more involved in murder and terrible deeds. He arranges for his friend Banquo to be murdered because he is afraid that Banquo’s after sons will become Kings. Macbeth goes back to the witches who tell him that "no man of woman born will harm him”and until Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane (his castle) he will not be harmed. Macbeth gets so obsessed with this prophecy that he has Macduff’s wife ....