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In a world consumed by economics, it is easy to get swept away by the desire for power, wealth, and prestige. Many people lose sight of life’s natural wonders and become engrossed by greed as they yearn to acquire and maintain an affluential reputation. This central theme is apparent in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, which is further translated into Billy Morrissett’s Scotland, PA. Although Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s desire to “achieve absolute monarchical authority is absurdly reduced to the McBeths’ desperate bourgeois ambitions,� in Scotland, PA, the main concept remains intact (Hoefer 154). Essentially, Macbeth is transformed from a tragic play about the uncontrollable desperation for monarchial power kindled by a prophesy to a modern movie about a low class couple who, despite their patient efforts, cannot seem to achieve the success they desire and are therefore driven to violence and thievery to obtain it. Within the play the Macbeth’s commence a bloody trail of......

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