Comparing Roman Polanski's version to Josh Freestones version of the film Macbeth compared to the original.

Macbeth is a tragedy that has been performed since 1506 and since then has had many movies made that have re-created the original play written by William Shakespeare. Directors Polanski and Freeston tend to depict Lady Macbeth in significantly different ways from each other and from the original text in different scenes throughout the tragedy. The differences can observed by close study of major scenes featuring Lady Macbeth such as Act 1 scene 5, Act 1 scene 7 'The Planning …

…ability to portray facial expressions allows the audience to feel sympathy for her character, a quality that was not as evident in Polanski's version. The ambition for Lady Macbeth to be crowned the Queen of Scotland proved to be too greater goal for her to achieve and the irony is that the couple were happier before their status changed and their ambition finally made them obsessively mad and concluded in the demise of them both.