OPPapers.com Essay Index >> English >> Witchcraft From Within: Hippy'S, Murder And Shakespeare
We have many free term papers and essays on Witchcraft From Within: Hippy'S, Murder And Shakespeare. We also have a wide variety of research papers and book reports available to you for free. You can browse our collection of term papers or use our search engine.
Witchcraft from Within: Hippy's, Murder and Shakespeare. Witchcraft from
Within: Hippies, Murder, and Shakespeare Predictions of ...
Submitted by avconsta on March 25, 2007
Category: English
Words: 1742 | Pages: 7
Views: 66
Popularity Rank: 88,923
Average Member Grade: N/A (Add a Comment / Grade this Paper)
Witchcraft from Within:
Hippies, Murder, and Shakespeare
Predictions of the future do not come from fried-chicken-eating pot-smoking deadbeats out of the ‘70s. Even in the mixed up world of a fast-food adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth conjured up by writer/director Billy Morissette
, every man has free will and chooses his own destiny. Morissette
’s version equates fast food to royalty, imparting the entrepreneurial spirit of assistant manager Joe “Mac” McBeth onto the monarchical ambitions of Lord Macbeth. Mac takes the form of a frustrated fast food clerk, surviving in the lowest class of trailer dwelling trash, aspiring only to be the best clerk he can and hopefully be rewarded for his efforts, eventually commencing a series of small town murders to rise to the top. Paralleling the roles of the weird witches of the original play, the three prophetic hippies of Scotland, PA are manifestations of Mac’s subconscious, propagating his violent actions beyond the capability of his sentient mind but not independent of his subliminal desires and allowing the director to express new and relevant meaning to Mac’s murderous actions. The hippies materialize only to Mac in moments of intoxication and feed on his predispositions to encourage acts of violence from within his own mind. Mac’s actions endow the adaptation with a new significance as a testament to the mind of a murderer beyond the ideas laid forth by Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
While on the surface the hippies instigate the series of gruesome murders within the film, their motives stem only from Mac’s dark inner thoughts of ambition and power. Mac truly longs for the prosperous life and will deny his hesitant and good-willed exterior if necessary to accomplish his goals. After hearing the witches’ prophecy of the original play, Lord Macbeth catches himself entertaining the idea of killing Duncan, reflecting, “If good, why do I yield to that suggestion / Whose horrid image...
You must Login to view the entire paper.
If you are not a member yet, Sign Up for free!