Act 5.3 of #Macbeth sees one of Macbeth's last conversations before battle. He speaks with Seyton (interesting wordplay for a name) and a doctor. The devil on Macbeth's shoulder eggs him on for battle and the healer has given up hope for Macbeth and his wife. #Muddybuddies
It's interesting to see the inversion of stereotypical gender traits in #Macbeth. It seems like it's only the women sticking it out through the drama and getting stuff done while the men have to be dragged up by their wives else they flee the country like cowards. #Muddybuddies
Scene 3, Act 1 Macbeth takes a page out of Lady Macbeth's book when he manipulates and shames the mercenaries into killing Banquo. Yet another nod to how he transforms for the worse after his first murder. #Muddybuddies #Macbeth
The turn-around time of both Macbeths is crazy to see in action. Just after killing Duncan, both Macbeths were mentally shaken and Macbeth was on the verge of a breakdown. The next day, their faux innocence is worthy of Broadway. Could this be a defense mechanism? #Muddybuddies
Lady Macbeth is the true ride or die, but both her and Macbeth are a tad morally absent. It really only took a few words from three street weirdos to rile the supposedly righteous pair into scheming a regicide. A dangerous level of gullibility. #Shakespeare #Macbeth #Muddybuddies
The 3 witches in #Shakespeare's #Macbeth bear striking resemblances to the three Fates in Greek myth. Not sure how I would work around it but it would be interesting to explore the evolution of the Fates through to Shakespeare's time in relation to Monster Theory. #Muddybuddies
One of the things I learned in my high school Lit and Film class was the advantages of film in eliciting empathy from audiences. I wonder how #SuzanneKeen's #ATheoryofNarrativeEmpathy might adapt to fit other narrative mediums (i.e. film, art, dance, etc...). #Muddybuddies
#SuzanneKeen brings up an interesting relationship between empathic ability and culture in #ATheoryofNarrativeEmpathy. Our ability to empathize with different people depending on our differing cultural contexts can explain a lot about today's polarized society. #Muddybuddies
As much as I found #SuzanneKeen's article on #ATheoryofNarrativeEmpathy interesting and thought-provoking, it was a little hard to get through. This was meant to be the one class where I wasn't reading scientific articles. I was not excited about this read :(#Muddybuddies
I don't know what I expected with @OctaviaEButler's #Bloodchild. Loved the writing, 10/10, 5 stars. Nearly barfed several times toward the climax though. I'm torn between my disgust with the physical descriptions and my love of the emotional turbulence. #Muddybuddies
I spent my Saturday empathizing with human and nonhuman characters for my paper on #MarthaWells' #AllsystemsRed to the point I've conditioned myself to it. I sincerely didn't want to empathize with the Tlic in @OctaviaEButler's #Bloodchild. I hate that I did. #Muddybuddies
It's interesting to see the 'past' and 'future' in the same work. I find some of the 'future' to be quite scary but I am grateful to have stepped out of the 'past.' Would the 'past' view us as scary and the 'future' be grateful to have moved on? #Muddybuddies #TedChiang
It's interesting how #NanaKwameAdjeiBrenyah's #Finkelstein5 portrays revenge as sourced from frustration rather than vengeance. The compulsions Emmanuel feels in this story are all new to him. He is angry and confused. Not even after the deed was he happy. #Muddybuddies
ngl the first half of #CharlieJaneAnders' #BookstoreattheendofAmerica had me thinking it was a drawn-out, sophisticated allegory for the polarized media systems in the modern US. The giant mecha-bot showdown really whaled me in the face. Big fan :)) #Muddybuddies
The first chapter of #MarthaWells' #AllSystemsRed gives an interesting portrayal of normalized class disparities. The murderbot doesn't seem to hold any grudges against his 'contractors' and is rather accepting of them treating it (him? her? ??) like an appliance. #Muddybuddies
"If he is a gay child, God bless him; if he is a non-gay child who simply very much enjoys wearing his grandmother's wig... so be it" I like #Saunders' open-mindedness in this quote. He also questions the validity of queer/cis stereotypes and gender norms at large.#Muddybuddies
#GeorgeSaunders' #MyFlamboyantGrandson includes queerness as an inciting factor, but the story primarily focuses on the unconditional parent-child bond between Teddy and Saunders. I appreciate that this dynamic stresses parental love in lieu of personal identity. #Muddybuddies
Clearly I missed the memo on #FredericJameson's #ProgressvsUtopia. I think he's trying to say that we can't imagine utopias bc sociocultural restraints, but there was so much stuff abt "self evident" writing that imo was very much not. 😒 Or maybe I'm just dumb #muddybuddies
#BillyCollins #Sonnet is an interesting example of reflexive poetry. I like how the poem refers back to itself as it continues. I like the occasional sprinklings of romance and the criticisms against the needlessly complex rules of Elizabethan poetry #Muddybuddies