Point of View

Nesbo has written Macbeth using a third-person limited omniscient narrator, which accesses the internal thoughts and feelings of one character at a time, although this viewpoint switches between both line breaks and chapter breaks. For instance, when Macbeth is summoned to a private meeting with Hecate, the scene is told through Macbeth's point of view. For instance: "A chair leg scraped as Macbeth was turned around. Then his goggles were removed. Macbeth's first thought was that he was looking into a soundproofed interview room" (208). By describing this scene through Macbeth's point of view, and not Hecate's point of view, additional suspense is created. Since Macbeth is blindfolded and led to a location unknown to him by Hecate, the scene is very mysterious through Macbeth's eyes, but it is not so through Hecate's eyes, as Hecate is in control of all of the variables of the...