Macbeth, a play written by William Shakespeare in 1606, is about the ambition and eventual downfall of a Scottish noble (Macbeth Background). The play was written the year after the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 when English Catholics attempted to blow up the House of Lords and everyone in it, including the king (The Gunpowder Plot of 1605). This plot was unsuccessful but left a lasting impression that still exists today in the form of “Bonfire Night” or “Guy Fawkes(one of the conspirators) Night” celebrated
Satan, in the same way, finds his obliteration because he defy God but when knowing he is just a tool of God makes readers rethink and reassess Satan role. Even though Macbeth deserves what happened to him, most readers find themselves more kind to understand Macbeth because he is essentially a good-guy-gone-bad, yet his deadly ambition causes readers to feel no sympathy with his doom. In contrast, Satan devises a scheme to destroy men as revenge over God’s wrath but
Antagonistic to determinism is the concept of free will. Will may be defined as “the ability to control one’s thoughts and actions in order to achieve what one wants to do.” It is the capacity to choose from two or more alternatives of a physical or mental action. When such will is neither controlled by external and internal sources or forces, it is called the Free Will. Free will is sometimes nothing but ‘the power to control your own decision without being controlled by God or fate.’ Encyclopedia
The distinctiveness of Indian theatrical tradition in the dramatic cultures of the world—its antiquity as well as its aesthetic appeal—is more or less indisputable today. The roots of theatre in India are ancient and deep-seated. Theatrical expression of some kind or the other has been since primitive and mythic times, an integral part of Indian life. Our knowledge about the initial, primitive stage of theatrical activity in India is very meagre. However one can safely say that theatre in India as