Saturday, August 13, 2011
Ahh Shakespeare's Macbeth? Please help!?
Access the Folger Shakespeare Library on line. Should help.MacBeth isn't a "bad leader" he's in thrall to his wife. Evidently Lady MacBeth was the daughter of a laird -- real life history here - who lost most of her family (father and brothers murdered and she subsequently married MacBeth so he could provide her with the wherewithall to avenge those deaths.) Do more research here online and you will see that M is really an unwitting pawn to Lady M in many respects. Go back to her early winding up Macbeth speeches and you will feel the venom and the single-mindedness of her rage-- the dash the skull of a new born infant and tear its sucking mouth away from my (paraphrasing here) speech really is quite chilling. He's a bad leader in that he believes in the old ways -- the witches, and believes in his wife's suggestions to kill them all even if they are not relevant to holding his position of power. And therefore gets so involved with the scarey woo-woo stuff, that he neglects the hard reality of governing. There's lots more to bang on about, but just trying to get you into the tale a bit more and think in the box, not outside it.
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