Hello Wallflowers,
Didn't know what to write for this weeks Sunday Post so I took some inspiration from school :) Hope you don't mind and it gives you some advice.
Recently in my English lesson, we have been looking at the
play Macbeth and looking at the hidden messages that Shakespeare uses in
certain features. One metaphor hid a message which I particularly liked which
was along the lines of no great power can wash off all of the guilt. I’ll put
it into context. Basically Macbeth has just killed Duncan (the king) and he is
trying to wash his hands of the blood and says this:
Will all great
Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand?
No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous sea
incarnadine
Making the green one
red
What he is saying here is that not any power will be able to
wash the blood and guilt off his hands, not even Neptune, God of the sea. This
got me thinking- can we ever wash the guilt of our past actions from our hands?
Can any comment or action be erased from us or does it stay with us forever,
slowly building up until the weight is unbearable to carry? At what point do
our actions become too much for us to cope with? Everyone has at one point in
their life made a comment on their friends appearance or taken a cookie when
they knew it was nearly dinner time or hasn't handed in their homework on time
but do even these small action stay with us? Obviously no one will have gone as
far as Shakespeare made Macbeth go to get the point across but we must think
about how our actions impact our lives. We won’t go mad like Macbeth did but
there must be some impact, some tiny dent in our image which shows what we have
done. I sometimes picture everyone carrying around all of their bad deeds in a
suitcase and depending on how many bad things they've done, depends on the size
of the suitcase. There isn't any way for us to really get rid of our actions
but instead we should quit while we are ahead and think before we act. Think
about what we say or do will impact someone and think about heavy it will be
for you to carry. Just realized how deep this has gone but I suppose
Shakespeare does have a point and he does suggest some pretty interesting
stuff.
Sorry if it's short but it was just some thoughts
Love
Isobel xxx
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