Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

 

                                         For mine own good,

All causes shall give way: I am in blood

Stept in so far, that, should I wade no more,

Returning were as tedious as go o’er:

Strange things I have in head, that will to hand;

Which must be acted ere they may be scann’d.

Macbeth

Macbeth                          Act III, Scene iv, Line 137

 

 

From one titular classic tragedy character to another – both, naturally, tragically flawed.

This is Macbeth sinking further and further into his new self. He has murdered King Duncan and his friend Banquo and realizes that there’s no turning back now.

Here, I’ll give you Pete’s Version:
Everything and everyone will bend to my purposes now. I’m so deep in that there’s no turning back. These strange ideas that I have will soon be turned to action, and it’s only after they’ve been acted on that they will be fully understood.

Well, I’m not sure what’s to be understood beyond what is obvious, and that is that Macbeth has turned into a murderous, treasonous fellow out of ambition to be the top dog.

Does he want us to think there’s more to it than that? Well, is there? Is there more than that?

This of course raises a philosophical question: Is there a belief in the mind of the Hitler, or the Putin, or the Trump that makes them think that there is a reason that they are the answer? That they are the chosen one? Do they believe they are fated to be that. I guess with our friend Macbeth he does believe it’s fate, since the three sisters told him so and because the first thing they told him - Thane of Cawdor - came true on its own. I think it was the Thane of Cawdor thing that set Macbeth on his path.
What about the guys in real life history. Did they have their own three sisters and Thane of Cawdor experience? Or did they just convince themselves all on their own?

Now that’s an interesting question. Whether or not you give two hoots about Shakespeare or not, that's an interesting question.