I won't get to download the episode until tonight but EEEEE!!!
And I've just started reading Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar", which I've never read before, and in Harold Bloom's introduction I read this:
Though Caesar's nephew, Octavius, is his adopted son and heir, there is a tradition that Brutus was Caesar's natural son, and many critics have noted the similarities that Shakespeare portrays between the two. I firmly reject Freud's identification of Hamlet with Oedipus; it is Brutus, and Macbeth after him, who manifest Oedipal ambivalences toward their fatherly figures.
...which just brings the Macbethian scene of Brutus with Servilia into my mind like a ton of bricks and I was so full of glee!
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Date: 2007-01-22 05:21 am (UTC)And I've just started reading Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar", which I've never read before, and in Harold Bloom's introduction I read this:
Though Caesar's nephew, Octavius, is his adopted son and heir, there is a tradition that Brutus was Caesar's natural son, and many critics have noted the similarities that Shakespeare portrays between the two. I firmly reject Freud's identification of Hamlet with Oedipus; it is Brutus, and Macbeth after him, who manifest Oedipal ambivalences toward their fatherly figures.
...which just brings the Macbethian scene of Brutus with Servilia into my mind like a ton of bricks and I was so full of glee!