Shoot For The Moon

macbeth is shakespeare’s funniest tragedy and mr. macbeth is the funniest character in macbeth. he listens to these creepy old women tell him he’s gonna be king and IMMEDIATELY decides the only thing he can POSSIBLY do is kill a guy and then he waffles about it for a full act and finally comes to the conclusion that it’s morally wrong and then HE DOES IT ANYWAY and his entire fucking life falls apart with an inevitability that is genuinely hilarious

the other exceedingly funny thing is that he doesn’t even cover his ass that well like??? sure the morning right after the murder he gets away with it but even then he almost straight fucks it by killing the guys he framed. and then within a few months everyone in scotland independently comes to the conclusion that he did it ANYWAY because like. WHO else would it have been

was anyone gonna tell me Macbeth was a comedy or was i supposed to read that here myself?

Also the bit where Macduff kid is getting murdered and he goes “oh, you’ve killed me” *dies* like what a mood

It’s in the nature of good storytelling that you have genuine comedy encompassed in a tragedy and, on the flip side, genuine tragedy encompassed in comedies. Take a look at Much Ado About Nothing: plenty of tragic tropes (it shares whole story beats with Romeo and Juliet), but since the good end happily and the bad unhappily, it’s a comedy.

After hearing ‘none of woman born’ and Macbeth being like, “Awwww fuck yeah! I’m a super freak and no one can touch me” but him still going through a moral crisis will never not be a little funny to me.

LMAO 😂

Call me old fashioned, but I think the president saying "a whole civilization will die tonight" is the part where he should be deposed immediately.

god i love poetry

I love it when I stumble across something that combines beautiful creativity with spot on critical analysis and each makes the other infinitely better. This is my sweet spot. Right here.

Benson Boone sounds like the name of a guy in a folk song who gets gunned down for adultery and thrown in a river

A cold mist blew through the streets of the town the night they gunned young Benson down. He'd laid with a woman who wasn't his wife and her husband decided he'd pay with his life. By the dark of the night and the light of the moon, into the river went poor Benson Boone.

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love the genre of discourse that’s like “the world used to be [thing it never was] but now society is [I’m over thirty]”

If you enjoyed this book you should read every other book in the world for extra textual context. All things are intricately related to one another.