Shakespeare
yet again creates a stimulating, play-written poem, with reflections of
humanity, destiny, and power. Not only are the impact and implications of the
play astounding, the sheer amazement of the entirety of the play existing as a gargantuan
poem is truly difficult to fully appreciate. The ability for anyone to write an
entire piece, with as deep of a meaning, in contextual accuracy and lyrical
loyalty, is not replicable, and likely never will be.
Macbeth
contains a very interesting connection between humanity and destiny. From
the start, we receive the “knowledge” from the witches of Macbeth’s and Macduff’s
future, but as we learn, it is shrouded with misleading images and deceitful
messages. Not only is every action sequentially caused by the witches’
presentation, but it is as if it was the intention all along for this tumult to
occur. If we take this out of Shakespearean context, it could be argued that
the witches are symbolic of forces in our own world, working to screw stuff up
for the purpose of God, Glory, Gold, or simply because “Some men just want to
watch the world burn.” Alfred Pennyworth, The
Dark Knight Rises. People, like Macbeth, don’t even contemplate the idea
until it is presented, and it results in absolute consumption, because it
seemed destiny, due to ‘irrefutable’ proof, the same irrefutable proof that is
presented on news stations, within countries, between party members, and
eventually shown to be a gross misrepresentation by all faction. For example,
there are massive quantities of people who believe in a sacred war between
absolute good and absolute evil, and spend their entire lives indoctrinating
others to their ill-conceived conviction and wasting theirs on a fabricated
tale which will not occur from sacred entities. However, history has shown that
humans are prone to making their destiny happen. So, like Macbeth, humans could
easily create this end-of-the-world battle occur, because they believe it will,
and they want it to.
On a different analysis, I want to
dive deeper into the mind-blowing of Shakespeare. Let’s assume that the witches
want Macbeth to traverse on his journey of decline, destruction, and death.
What are the witches? Fictional characters created by William Shakespeare. They
are the vehicles of Shakespeare, the works and workers both, oh his hand. Therefore,
the witched do want Macbeth to commit such atrocities, because the witches are
Shakespeare, working for Shakespeare, and therefore are working towards his
goal. This reminiscently reminds me of when I was reading an essay on a story
in which a character is reflecting on himself, questioning his own existence;
perhaps the greatest ironic use of literature ability ever. Create a fictional
character, write about that character questioning his own existence, because
indeed, the character does not exist, or does he? Perhaps we are all stories
written by authors, perhaps déjà vu is the author rewriting something, perhaps
when we forget something we were going to say the text is being deleted,
perhaps dreams are free writing brainstorming sessions, or problem solving
sessions, or simply entertainment, perhaps alternate universes are other story copies, revised versions,
alternate endings; and perhaps this all just an exaggerated look at something
infinitesimal. But certainly entertaining to contemplate, and it not only opens
doors to new stories in the future, but it opens new insights to fictional
literature, and its interpretations.
