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A Comparison of Time in Macbeth and As You Like It In Shakespearean drama, a dynamic and explosive confederation of jealousy, pride, anger and ambition is characteristic for hitmanes behaviour. The tragedy was caused by the excessive dishonor in character - self-respect and dignity combined with the feelings of hate and revenge. A disaster usually occurred to lead to destruction of the protagonist. Due to divine justice, penalty is inevitable and therefore no happy ending is possible. Therefore, time is the heros main enemy, mercilessly working against him. The mystery of tragedy is that at once the protagonist has learnt a lesson of how to renew the order in himself, death is the altogether outcome /no memento mori, however/. Comedy differs in the climate it approaches and addresses life. It presents situations which deal with common ground of mans social acquire rather than limits of his behaviour it is not life in the tragic mode, lived at the difficult and perilous limi ts of the human condition. In Macbeth the first scene presents a meeting of three witches during stormy weather. Shakespeare shows disturbed, angry nature - thunder and tinder represent light - daytime and dark night-time. Light is the metaphor for innocence, purity, truth, and good as opposed to dark - evil. It is also a suggestion that the unobjectionable will suffer as well as the guilty. The fog and smelly air signify moral and spiritual obscurity and the set of cheerfulness means the end of the reign and kingship. The sun appears only twice when Duncan sees the swallows momentary around the castle of death and during the army gathering to purify the country of its shame (traitors). There is very strong sense of predestination (when sooner of if) while in As You Like It Orlandos flight is roadless and the meeting of lovers an act of Fate. In both plays the succession of the scenes is very sprightly in tragedy the impression is that longer time elapsed than provided for because handing over from thought to a critical resolution is difficult. The outcome of the comedy is transparent while Macbeth enters the spiral of decline within his imagination. Sleep has been banished the protagonist is cognizant of the nightmare his only one dream is the murder which would break the wheel and show the way out of the nightmare liberation.