Macbeth is, really, the only play written by William Shakespeare that I actually enjoy. It is strange, it is fairly sophisticated, and it has some very interesting themes to speak on about power, greed, and corruption. However, the entirety of the play hangs on one pivotal element I feel is just too stupid to pass up: Macbeth leaving that damned forest alone. If you’ve never read or seen the play, Macbeth is told (act 4, scene 1), by a ghostly child no less, that he will not be vanquished until a particular forest near his castle marches to his walls. Seeing as how a forest can’t really move, he lets the matter go like the idiot he is. I don’t care how awesome you are or how bullshit you think that prophecy is, you burn the damned forest. Problem solved. King forever.
I’ve also always thought that a ghostly child handing out sage wisdom was incredibly hilarious. Who thinks of this shit? Oh yeah, Shakespeare, right. The greatest writer who ever lived.
Seriously though, it’s a great play and I highly recommend it. I’m not a huge fan of theater, but there are some things you just can’t miss out on. Do yourself a favour, and read it online. You’ll feel awesome when you quote Shakespeare at your friends and sound super intelligent.
Thanksgiving is just around the corner for those of us in Ye Olde United States! Time to feast like gluttonous fools and remember how awesome it was when white people decimated native Americans with smallpox, war, and general douchebaggery! Woo!
Wait, that’s not what it’s about? It damn well should be.
Have a good Thanksgiving! Or a good Thursday for those of you that don’t like parties and dinners based entirely around fowl.
Love it. Especially the creepy baby for some reason haha. The way I celebrate Thanksgiving is by keeping warm with a small pox blanket and reading some Happle Tea haha
I was wondering who stole my Burger King hat….
I saw the last panel first and I had a flashback to the end/beginning of Conkers Bad Fur Day…
Oh remember that part that he would only fall to a man not birthed from a woman? Apparently that meant being being cut open from a C-section… I was so expecting some grown up zombie baby to Nom on Macbeth’s tasty brain meats.
I actually quoted Shakespeare at my friends once. They just laughed and said I was a geek xC
lol’d at this one
Macbeth Humor is so underused on the internet these days. Next week: lil K is accosted by gender ambiguous witches.
You can’t avoid fate. If Macbeth burned the forest it would have somehow fulfilled the prophecy, it always does. Just ask Oedipus’s parents.