Night: A Herald of Things to Come.

Macbeth, a dark tragedy written by one of the greatest playwrights of all time, William Shakespeare, is a play that explores the anatomy of guilt and the events that cause it. When Macbeth and his wife conspire to commit a horrible murder, the reader sets out on a journey to discover the inner workings of the human soul and the elements of the very life that each and every person who has ever committed a deed even half so terrible lives. But why is this journey so vivid, so familiar? Shakespeare, throughout the play chooses to use a common image over and over again. This image is night, th…