Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Poor Old Lady Macbeth

It seems to me we love to project our thoughts of evil onto her and her alone .What about Macbeth himself - weakness he was. her strength we admire . In typical PC correct reactionary style a>professor Cheng at Princetown thinks he can redeem her somewhat - missing the whole point of placing yourself in the 16Th century -
The people of the day rejoiced in recognising themseleves in "the happy couple." Other outhouses at Princetown ( eg pysch) TODAY might also rejoice that someone (Shakesp) was not so religious as to stiffle our enjoyment of seeing others in the same predicament and with the same tempatations as us ( albeit less dramatic)too overcome
Chengs literal myopia carries absolutely no weight ( like most dramatic art of the moment) against Shakespeares pointed paradox - that evil is within us all ( eg Macbeths false admiration for something he doesn't have , but might have - mettle). She is no worse or better than her husband, just ambitiuos - ambition like mettle, has no internal moral value. Mistaken value systems are the depression pills of the modern west

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Star Wars- enjoyment

while the ageing left struggles fanatically to reviev the dead body of secularism and own your own morality ,ART remind us that the new generation want the boundaries between right and wrong , good and bad to be clearer- its more fun that way too !