Wednesday, 13 January 2010
yes. Macbeth dies. He gets his head lopped off and he dies. he's brainless in a sense or brain: dead. so whilst his life is a tough one, gutting people and lopping off OTHER PEOPLE'S heads, ours is worse. We have to READ the story in like, caveman english. it's long, hard, tough, chewy and is high in fibre content. WE CAN'T DIGEST THE STORY. we can't even digest it when it's burnt down, stirred into water and milk and quickly drunk. Heck, we can't even mash it up. For this book, hitting the centre straight away isn't a bad idea. The whole goddamn first scene is complete bull droppings. Or bullshit if you want it that way. I suspect it's just to make the road longer, the read tougher and the play obscenely looong. but it's okaay.
that is, till you hit the war part. macduff wasn't born of a woman? what, he was cut out of the stomach of a MAN? holy crap man, he's like akhmed the dead terrorist or something. and so he wasn't born of a woman. so he can kill macbeth. I'm surprised everyone's names start with MAC. then there are a whole damn pile of references to Donald Trump. MacDonwald, Donalbain and the like. Is this some sort of macdonald's advertising ploy?
Shakespeare, you disappoint me. the real Macbeth was quite a good king. while you sit around shaking spears, he has to rule a kingdom. making something interesting doesn't have to do with destroying reputations. Personally, I'd rather read Romeo and Julian.(no, you read THAT right).
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