![]() ![]() I have some reservations about simply saying “Amen!” to the last sentence. Indeed, with surpassing irony Shakespeare presents them as the happiest married couple in all his work.” We are to journey inward to Macbeth’s heart of darkness, and there we will find ourselves more truly and more strange, murderers in and of the spirit.”Īn equally striking insight appears in the next paragraph: “The sublimity of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth is overwhelming: they are persuasive and valuable personalities, profoundly in love with one another. Since Macbeth speaks fully a third of the drama’s lines, and Lady Macbeth’s role is truncated, Shakespeare’s design upon us is manifest. It is as if Bloom dedicated himself to transform Shakespeare and his modern audience into skeptical nihilists in his own image.īloom’s comments on Macbeth illustrate the reasons for my equally deep admiration and antipathy: “Why are we are unable to resist identifying with Macbeth? He so dominates his play that we have nowhere else to turn. ![]() ![]() How then can he be an enemy? Because his anti-Christian bias is omnipresent and blatant. His writing is brilliant, his knowledge of things Shakespearean encyclopedic, and the insights he offers may puzzle, startle, or amaze, but they always educate. When it comes to the interpretation of Shakespeare, Harold Bloom is my favorite enemy. ![]()
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