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Another throughgoing theme is guilt. Both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth feel guilt caused by their bloody actions (murders). Towards the end Lady Macbeth feels the heavy guilt of her actions when she tries to wash the blood of the daggers (in the movie), and when she walks in her sleep (in the book) and talks about that she can’t wash the blood of her hands. After the murder of Banquo, Macbeth sees his ghost, which is a sign of the guilt he feels. Later on he becomes somewhat careless towards the people he has caused pain and the guilt doesn’t weigh him down anymore.

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Appearance vs Reality
Although it might not appear on their appearances, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are both very concerned and scared. As King and Queen they have to appear strong and determined, but in reality they are very scared if someone might find out about them murdering Banquo.
Macbeth was considered a very noble and honorable man and a great warrior.

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Gender.
Lady Macbeth is the centre of how gender roles is explained in the play. In the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth is the one who takes decisions and she is the one to decides what Macbeth should do - and here: kill King Duncan. She is in charge of the plans at the beginning and this is not how the society expected women to act at that time. Lady Macbeth thinks that her womanhood is making her weak, and by saying "unsex me" she wants to have the weakness/womanhood taken away from her.

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Gender:
Gender plays a vital role in Macbeth. I.e when lady Macbeth hears about the prophecy she says "Unsex me" because she wants to loose her femine side (caring, loving etc). She also uses her definition of a man whose masculinity to convince Macbeth to go through with the murder of Duncan. In the end of the play we see that Macduff defines a man as someone who will feel sadness after loosing his family where as Macbeth goes numb after loosing his wife.

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The play explores the roles different gender and how your gender defines your role in society. In the play we see it when Lady Macbeth thirst for power leads her to manipulate her husband by threatining

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In Macbeth there are several supernatural aspects. For example ghosts appear and a concrete example of this is at the feast, where Banquo's ghost appears among the other guests seated in the room. Another ghost in Macbeth is the ghost of a small child, that was buried in the very first scene of the movie. The child's ghost appears in the scene where Lady Macbeth sits on the floor, crying and talking to the child's ghost in a church

Another supernatural aspect is the fact that three witches and their two children appear several times throughout the movie. The witches are only seen out on the battlefield, like they appear out of nothing and disappear the same way

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Fate and free will: The witches tell Macbeth about his future and fate, and at first, he tries to achieve what the witches told him would happen to him by killing King Duncan. Afterwards he realizes that the prophecies has decided his fate, and therefore he cannot change it with his own free will as we see in the scene where he tries to kill Macduff but ends up getting killed by Macduff; even though Macbeth tries to decide his own fate, the prophecies come true and therefore he cannot change his fate with his free will. On the other hand, the fact that Macbeth knows about the prophecies might be the reason why he achieved what the prophecies said because he believed in them; Macbeth might not have become king if he ignored the prophecies.

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Fate and free will: Macbeth is not a victim of fate because he is in control of the murders that he commits. He does this because he believes that it is his date to become king. He has the free will to ignore the witches prophecies but he chooses to follow them. The witches led him to go against his actual fate, which was to never become the king, and thus he dies a tragic hero. The story shows the consequences of betraying fate with free will.

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Appearance and reality

In the play, the two main characters, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth, both acquire qualities in the beginning, which turn out to be facades.
For example, Lady Macbeth wishes to be 'unsexed', but she later walks in her sleep and expresses a heavy feeling of guilt and vulnerability which eventually turns into suicide. In addition to that, Macbeth is a very respected and noble man, who is also loyal to the king, but as the play proceeds, he turns out to be very greedy and capable of acting out of desire.

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Supernatural

In both the book and the movie, the three witches is present. As both a reader and a viewer we don't know whether they are supernatural or if they actually exist. Macbeth has a desire to gain power, and maybe Macbeth doesn't really doubt whether they are a construction he made himself, or if they are actually real, because he is blinded by himself achieving power.
In both the movie and the book, Macbeth sees a ghost of his friend Banquo. Of course he isn't real but he represents the guilt he feels towards his deeds. Therefore supernatural elements are used to send a message to Macbeth and the reader/viewer.

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Guilt:
Guilt is a recurring theme in Macbeth, as in the beginning of the play we see how Macbeth feels guilty after killing Duncan as Duncan had treated him kindly in the past.
Lady Macbeth was the one who did not feel guilt in the beginning, and even forced Macbeth to move past the guilt, but then was later the one who suffered from sleepwalking because of the guilt from the murders.

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Amanda og Maria (Appearance vs. reality) 

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Amanda og Maria (Appearance vs. reality) 

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Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth go  back and forth between being calm and controlled to losing their strong , collected facades. Macbeth starts out being very doubtful, but seems to harden up until Banquo is killed, and he starts feeling the guilt of murdering people for his own benefit. Lady Macbeth keeps a passionate front until it unexpectedly gets too much for her, and cracks form in her facade. She is weaker than Macbeth (at least in the movie). The psychological impact on Lady Macbeth is bigger than on Macbeth, which shows as he is more succesful at regaining his strength, and he only has the low point at the dinner. He keeps up the appearance by going to war in the end.

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Guilt:
The feeling of guilt is a main theme in Macbeth. For example when Lady Macbeth is sleepwalking, while the doctor and the gentlewoman are watching her, and she is trying, however not succeeding in washing her hands clean. This becomes a symbol of her feeling of guilt from being involved in the killing of King Duncan - and thereby turning the chain of being upside down. Another example is when the two murderes return to tell Macbeth that they managed to kill Banquo. Afterwards Macbeth is haunted by Banquo's ghost, who is sitting in his seat at the table. This shows how Macbeth feels very guilty of murder, and is unable to move on with his life.

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Ambition and power:
In the play we see the bad sides of ambition and power for both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth. In the beginning the thirst for power gives lady Macbeth and Macbeth the willpower to commit regicide. By committing regicide lady Macbeth is left wounded mentally and she never recovers which we see during the sleepwalking scene in the play, where she confesses her crime. Macbeth gets blinded by his ambition of being the king of Scotland which leads to his downfall and death.

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A theme in the movie and in the play is ambition and power. In the beginning Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have an ambition of gaining the power, which makes them greedy and they are never fully satisfied, which we see when Macbeth questions the witches about the prophecies; he wants to know even more. In the end Macbeth’s desire to gain the power and ensure it by killing potential threats, ends up being the reason why he dies.

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Fate and free will

The play and movie shows no sign of free will, as we see all of the prophecies from the witches come true. Especially in the movie, we see examples of how the belief in fate bounds someone to act - for example, Macbeth could easily have killed Macduff in the end of the movie, but he seems discouraged after he realises that Macduff is not of woman, which during to the prophecy would lead to Macbeth’s death. In this scene, the free will of Macbeth is being suppressed by his belief in fate.

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Ambition and power
There is a great difference between ambition and power. Both Malcom and Macbeth do a great job gaining the throne but is not satisfied or able to handle it after achieving it. This is seen when Malcom sits on the steps instead of the throne in the end of the movie.

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One of the major themes of the play Macbeth is Ambition and Power. The story of Macbeth tells the unfortunate tale of a man who succumbs to his desire for power and ends up murdering a lot of people to rise in the hierarchy. Thereby he ends up disturbing the Great Chain of Being, and ultimately dying as a result. This is seen throughout the play, starting of with him killing king Duncan, whereafter his murders spiral out of control leading to him killing of Banquo and Macduff's family.

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The role of the witches.

The witches plays a major role in the play and in the movie, because they are the ones who makes Macbeth aware of his possibilities of having power/being king. The witches follows and watches Macbeth especially during the movie. This is seen in the last scenes, when Macbeth is fighting against Macduff, and the witches watches them, like if they knew it was going to happen.

Their prophecies are taken very seriously by the characters in the play, and especially by Macbeth.

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The story of Macbeth enlightens the theme of ambition and power. Macbeth has a lot of ambition towards becoming king, and it makes him unable to see the consequenes of his actions. Towards the end we see how his ambitions take over, and he walks around in circles in his bedroom, because the power has gone to his head, and he seems like he can't comprehend what power has brought him. He has become mad and numb towards emotions and the impact his actions has on others.

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Ambition and power is a great theme in Macbeth because that is what drives Macbeth to win the throne and thereby put himself afsides. He is so ambitious about winning the throne that nothing else matters and he changes his character. He become more powerfull in order to win the throne. When he has gotten the throne he becomes greedy for power and the things that he has done to achieve power haunts him but he keeps on fighting. E.g. when Banquo comes to haunt him he starts acting crazy.

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Pursuit of power
- Macbeth is obsessed with becoming more and more powerful, and as the story progresses he becomes more greedy. His thirst for power ends up being the cause of his death.
Lady Macbeth
- Lady Macbeth is in the beginning of the play the who is obsessed with becoming powerful, where she through Macbeth tries to gain power.

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Ambition and power:
Macbeth becomes greedy after being told that he will become king, and his ambition is based on the prophecies made by the witches, which Macbeth interprets wrong.
Anything that comes in the way of his ambition (i.e. the King, Banquo and his son). He loses his values along the way in his pursuit of becoming king.