WHAT'S "OPTIMISM?"

This is a tragedy, kids. None of the following were something a Disney Channel show was based on, except maybe when Mickey Mouse goes trick-or-treating and gets hit by a ladder because of a couple nasty witches. The stage is covered in fog (the "foul" air) and people are sliced open right after the witches fly off to sink ships. Wives are driven crazy mad, turn alcoholic, and are possessed by the devil through sleepwalking. Noble men aren't so noble in the end. Guys who can't kill are girly, and girls are can't kill are pitiful. Royal figures are murdered in their sleep. C-sections without painkillers are mentioned and Macbeth's head is practically turned into a football. Every time this play is done, something bad has happened, but besides all the gore I find that Macbeth deals with the complexity of the human mind much more than people see through. Although a tale of betrayel and blood, it really does test us on what our outlook of life is and the truth is...we are all pretty freakin' pessimistic. In this play, Shakespeare gives us so many opportunities to see the good side of things, ie. maybe Lady Macbeth really did just die from a heart attack, or maybe she actually does feel sorry for what she'd done. But every action that is taken has to be the road more taken, and we are stuck in a wave of death and fear. Hopefully, probing deeper into this play will help many of us NOT have nightmares of horses devouring each other, but more thoughts about how we should see things in a different light than what people make it out to be.