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Maybe I'm a bit weird but I immediately thought of MacBeth Bring it after me. I will not be afraid of death and bane, Till Birnam forest come to Dunsi
by emmelaich 3y ago
Maybe I'm a bit weird but I immediately thought of MacBeth
Bring it after me.
I will not be afraid of death and bane,
Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane.
- jfengel 3y agoPedantic point of order: it's Macbeth, not MacBeth. "Macbeth" is his personal (first) name, not his patronymic. His father was Findláech mac Ruaidrí. "Beth" means "life". (Gaelic "beathad", cognate to "uisce beatha", water of life, which gives us the word "whiskey"). His personal name means "son of life". (Not entirely unlike the Hebrew name Chaim, which means "life".) Of course none of that is mentioned in the play. But Shakespeare did at least spell it right: "Macbeth". /end pedantry
- emmelaich 3y agoExcellent, genuine thanks.