
Ep 60 - The Tragedy of Macbeth (Shakespeare)
Hardcore Literature
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Shakespeare's Macbeth
Macbeth is a very echo-y play it's filled with repetition and layered he suffuses words with meaning that so rarely are suffused with meaning there are constant harkbacks we have this idea of overleaping leaping over an obstacle when we talk about our ambitions being ambitious. Shakespeare is setting up many more motifs that will be echoed throughout Macbeth. He lives in a visual world darkened now we might say that king leer lives in a yawning abyss nothing is but what is not the cogs are wearing the wheel of fortune is very much in motion and Macbeth's mind is already racing out ahead of him very soon he will overtake his own mind without
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