Hi I went on a big rant about Shakespeare and Macbeth and I thought y’all should see it
You know what I don’t like Shakespeare’s writing. No not because I’m a grumpy teen who hates his literature in class. No I dislike it because of the messages he supports through it.
Like Macbeth is about the coincidences of have the “wrong” kinda of ambition. And if you’re a woman through lady Macbeth you should not challenge the patriarchy or defy social norms.
Gods The Thing I hate about English class is that they say Shakespeare was a feminist and plays with how gender isn’t binary, but no only media illiterate fools would say that!
It’s a tragedy Lady Macbeth goes mad and dies!? (To her own hands might I add) (ok I can’t remember if that is cannon)
The witches who have sort of undefined genders are seen as villains/ scary background forces
The foil to Lady Macbeth, Lady Macduff, is shown as stereotypically feminine with the whole mother thing and worried/ annoyed wife.
Fuck sakes the whole point is the protagonists are bad and defy this imposed rules of class/ hierarchy/ religion so get punished. The protagonists aren’t the heroes that’s why it’s a tragedy, the antagonists are the heroes. The only reason why Shakespeare did this was to get a better view on who not to be so the audience connects to them then fully absorbs the message that you shouldn’t rise above your status, be the wrong person and have a “wrong” kind of ambition, and seek to change anything without dammed coincidences.
I’m furious
Ggggrrrrrrr..
















