The original Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, was created in the beginning of the 1600.This graphic novel was produced at 2008. Macbeth is very famous play, based on the Scotland’s king Macbeth’s life. The graphic novel version is presented at its original and unabridged format. Its fully colored and extraordinary entertaining novel. Novel is adapted by the John McDonald, designed by Jo Wheeler and the character design is produced Jon Haward. William Shakespeare is perhaps the most well known playwright in the history and the play of Macbeth is considered one of his most darkest tragedies. Other famous tragedies from William Shakespeare are for example: Hamlet, and Othello.
The novels theme is, as I mentioned before, tragedy. And thats exactly how I saw it when I was reading. A lot of action-scenes and the whole atmosphere of the novel is tense and treacherous.
Though the novel was in the graphic form, like the comic book, it was extremely hard to read and assimilate what you have read, because of the language. For example: ”I will not yield, to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet and to be baited with the rabble’s curse. Though Birnam wood be come to dunsinane, and thou oppos’d being of no woman born, yet I will try the last: before my body I throw my warlike shield”. And thats why I don’t recommend this novel for people who hadn’t read any this kind of literature in english before.
The novel was after all insanely great. It took me over two weeks to read the novel through, though it has less than 200 pages and a lot of pictures. That was mainly because of the hard language and strange words, and of course because I’m a lazy reader. But after all that reading was chiefly pleasant experience, and it was delightful to read a classic literature in the form of comic book. I would gladly do it again, and I truly recommend it for anybody who is interested about reading high-class literature in the modern form.