Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Reaction to Shakespeare -Tragedy

A less historically accurate, but more enjoyable, history.

Kidding. However, this is a drift back to the morals and messages of the Comedies. The only difference is one is happy and the other's sad. Also, these morals are more at warnings than the, "Now remember kids..." of the Comedies. Macbeth was going to have everything, and the idiot blew it all. Personally, this is often so many people in the world today. The greediest of all fall in the same fashion. Be it for power or possession, they all get wind of the chance to get some freebies, and they go ahead and choke on the stuff. Still, unlike the Histories, you've got a good guy that comes to the rescue, goes bad, and then some other little unknown guy comes to the rescue and beats the former good guy. It's sort of like all of the Star Wars movies packed into one less spectacular production. There was a lot more depth, so I found it more amusing than the histories, but it does reflect on how easily people can be corrupted. It also reflects on how people are essentially good and can easily do evil and regret it later. There's plenty who have been tortured as Lady Macbeth was, and it can be safely assumed that just about everyone will hesitate like Macbeth did unless he's egged on by an outside force. Though it's a better story than the Histories, I prefer the Comedies. Fantastic plot and all, but I like to keep a pleasant outlook whenever possible. I tend to lose that outlook quickly enough without already knowing what will tick me off.

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