#macbeth witches

I love the concept that even if a person fully believes their actions are their own another being(person or not) could have influenced their mindset so much that if they hadn't then the person might not be making the same decisions

I really like this topic because I researched it a lot when I did Macbeth in school. Macbeth received prophecies from the witches, believing that whatever was to happen would be up to fate and was pre-determined but really it was only because of him hearing about these prophecies that he took the actions he did

Also, Jon from S2-4 does all he can to stop the world from ending, and it is only through these measures he takes that he gains the marks from those entities that causes the world to end (also the fact he got the final mark (the lonely) from saving the person he loved is so distressing omfg)

both these characters take extreme measures to avoid terrible fates (of their own/the world) but in doing so they only cement the inevitability of their demise

Waking up the Sleep No More tag before the 10th anniversary of the NY production: some blood-limned witches.

I was tagged by @the-forest-library - thank you!

1. “Thrice the brinded cat hath mew’d.” Recommend a book with a cat in it. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. The Cheshire Cat.

2. “Harpier cries ‘Tis time, ‘tis time.” What is the next book you plan to read? My next read is The Annotated Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. It was a Christmas gift from my brother and I’m excited to finally read it.

3. “Round about the cauldron go.” Recommend a book it took you a long time to read. It took me a very long time to get through Paradise Lost by John Milton. But it’s a book often mentioned in other works, so it’s nice to get the reference.

4. “Eye of newt and toe of frog.” Recommend a book from your childhood OR recommend a gross book. I recommend El inventor de juegos (The Games Maker) by Pablo De Santis.

Iván Dragó participates in a game contest. He invents a game and receives a letter telling him that he has been chosen from among ten thousand other boys. This situation changes his life. His parents disappear and he is forced to live, first with his aunt and then with his grandfather, the famous game inventor Nicolás Dragó, in the city of Zyl, the cradle of games, where a world of adventures and mysteries will open up for him.

5. “Make the gruel thick and slab.” Recommend a book over 400 pages. A Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer. I enjoyed the moral conflict and that the story is written from the perspectives of different characters.

6. “Double, double toil and trouble/Fire burn and caludron bubble.” Recommend any book you like. One of my favorite reads from this year: The Inhabited Woman by Gioconda Belli. A book with complex female characters. The protagonists are Lavinia, a middle-class woman living in a Latin American country under a dictatorship that undergoes a personal transformation, and Itzá a warrior native woman from the time of the Spanish conquest. Both women are rebellious, resilient and brave.