Ham VS Mac: The Dark Bloody Meats of The Speare {BurgerMeister}

I'm sure it has been said more than once before, including by me, that Shakespeare has a knack for rather strange character involvement that ends up in quite the dramatic "blood everywhere." Two very similar embodiments of this are very well known and cherished throughout the world, the supposedly deranged vindicator known as Hamlet and the prophetic slaying king Macbeth.

Hamlet is my more well known examined subject, as he is the worse of the two, in ways, as well as being my more favorite anyway. As I have said before, Hamlet is pentultimate evil in his path of vengeance for his father towards Claudius, leaving few to spare. His massive delay in the plot to plot Claudius' death causes a dreadful decay towards an inevitable bottom of the down spiral. He even drives Ophelia to her own madness, while having taken Polonius by supposing him Claudius and finally deciding to act, albeit a bit late and rashly so. After such already potent killing directly and not, Hamlet's quest still isn't sated, and he is left to await a doom for not only his goal, but his family as well. In the end, all but Horatio, who manages to be the storyteller of such a fate as per due, and Fortenbra, who usurps the throne immediately after the court has been turned to a cadaver field, are dead. So, we are left knowing that Hamlet's efforts effectively did no good aside possible vengeance, and instead they also wrought the death of not one, like even Claudius' action, but all (almost).

Macbeth has a slightly different story with his claim to fame by witchery's prophetic vision, proving he was unstoppable but by seeming impossible means. So, Macbeth has his way in arrogance, leading to his own rapid downfall as quick as he came, by the hand of Duncan, the wombless born, and his contingent of the using-forest-parts-as-cover-and-or-camoflage-technique. There is much more to the story, but here is more so where my point lies then others: the dark.

I have stated both sides are dark, but to tie them together I will need a pivot, and what better joint than in the other characters, particularly the women. In both cases women are seemingly important role caster, whether Lady Macbeth or Gertude/Ophelia, while also subsequently finding themselves encased in unsavory circumstances. These occurrances, usually by visage or madness (Gertrude- Hamlet's "betrayal" ; Ophelia's Madness ; Lady Macbeth and the Blood), are effects garnered by the main character and their actions, most towards their goals, versus directly. Ultimately this is progressed to further death, including the main character instigator, effectively thwarting any meaning they would have been worth alive. Really all I can see being gleaned from these stories under such a dim light, is that you should not be like them, and there are interesting consequences to your psyche beyond what can even be imagined beforehand. I suppose this makes sense for the British, as in my experience, the stories usually have some sort of quality in their characters that is deplorable, one that the people would admonish and see reason in. For whatever reason, perhaps because of how unversed I am in natural British, the meaning meant was too dark and bloody to see.