01-28-2013, 02:03 PM | #16 |
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Perhaps Macbeth would have done better if he said "Damned right that's a dagger I see before me!"
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Given the context of the plays, I'm inclined to think that the witches weren't actually intended to offer any deeper meaning to the story, I think they were added to please the audience - just as modern authors now add vampires, werewolves and zombies. I get the impression that a modern editor would have told Shakespeare to "kill his darlings" (as that awful modern advice goes), and remove the hags. ... And yet what a loss that would have been. All these questions that we pose now, that need not have been outstanding had he just told the central plot without them. |
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Its all the other stuff that makes the story have flesh and life! Its the details that are in the world AROUND the story that make it seem immersive. At least that is what I think. |
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