04-26-2002, 06:44 AM
Hamlet and Macbeth. Hmm. Ok I'll play along. Hamlet suffered from an Edipus complex. He wanted his mom and he was all torn up when she went on and started banging his uncle who in fact killed his father. He sees his pops ghost and finds out this fact. He then can't make up his mind of what to do. He's indecisiveness is his fatal flaw and it turns out that when he finally makes up his mind he's already lost his girlfriend, his mother, and his own life.
Macbeth sees the witches. Takes thier words to be true. His ambition makes him not let fate take its course and he does what he needs to do to get ahead. He ends up losing his wife, and his life. All because he was too pro active.
In both these stories the supernatural influences were there only to get the ball rolling. The protagonists both needed this to highlight their flaws as people. Vaulting ambition or under activeness killed both characters families as well as themselves. The witches and the ghost didn't do anything but plant ideas in the heads of the protagonists. The main thing that contrasts between the two works is what the characters did with these thougths. This is what makes the plays different.
How's that?
Macbeth sees the witches. Takes thier words to be true. His ambition makes him not let fate take its course and he does what he needs to do to get ahead. He ends up losing his wife, and his life. All because he was too pro active.
In both these stories the supernatural influences were there only to get the ball rolling. The protagonists both needed this to highlight their flaws as people. Vaulting ambition or under activeness killed both characters families as well as themselves. The witches and the ghost didn't do anything but plant ideas in the heads of the protagonists. The main thing that contrasts between the two works is what the characters did with these thougths. This is what makes the plays different.
How's that?
I hold the dubious honor of being the only person never modded who has also never been to a party who in the past had a shared account with a vegetable reference that has had consensual sex with a woman who wasn't from the board that also knows what >) means and remembers the end of the golden age.