So I did my little substitute teaching lecture on Macbeth a while back. Retired teacher, now guest lecturer. Kids liked what they heard. Two boys came up after 4th period and said, “Thanks, Mr. W. You made it [real].”
But it was an exceptionally good group of kids. And I had an opportunity to teach my favorite scene, the one where Lady MacDuff is visited by Ross while she is with her son, Act Four, Scene Two (AS 42).
Then her son, and she, and all the others, are mercilessly killed by a man desiring, not power, which he already has, but security.
Security. We all want security. But is that worth killing for?
Tuesday I'm doing another one on Beowulf.
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