There was a round house. One day the owner of the house was murdered.
There were only 3 people in the house at that time, the Butler, Maid, and Chef.
The Butler said that he was checking the mail; the Maid said she was sitting in
the corner, and the chef said he was preparing the dinner. Who was the murderer?
The maid,
there are no corners in a round house!
Oh boy... if only this were the case for the Beloved
Hated Macbeth, who is actually the King of Corners. Obviously, this is a very
unimpressive title, but it’s very well fitting, especially for Macbeth. While Macbeth
does seem to corner himself, I am speaking specifically about the prophecies he
is told by the Corner Sisters Weird Sisters (wow strikethroughs are
fun!). Macbeth concerns himself with the prophecies by all means, with the one
exception being that he only listens to the good ones. By concerning himself so
much with the prophecies that are told, Macbeth puts himself in a corner. Not
even a small one at that. Imagine a room. Four corners, right? Normally, yes
but I am one-thousand percent positive that Macbeth would turn our previously
rectangular room with, as you said, four corners into enneacontagon (a polygon with
nine sides) just he could be comfortable with the ninety corners in the room.
Needless to say, Macbeth is a corner-er.
After the first prophecy Macbeth was
told came true, Banquo started to wonder about the second prophecy. Macbeth
ignored Banquo because the second prophecy didn’t positively affect Macbeth. My
motto has always been “if it isn't good, Macbeth doesn’t care” I mean
seriously, the guy must know that he is doomed (of course he actually doesn’t,
just everyone else does). As far as most of the bas prophecies go, Macbeth
could not care less about them. He started to care about Banquo’s son taking
the throne, like was foretold, so he decided his best plan of action was to
kill Banquo and his son to prevent the prophecy from coming true… To me, this sounds vaguely familiar.
Prophecies…… Killings…. Prevention…. Doesn’t
work…. They all blend together to me. If you take those five words, and mix the
letters around and add some more letters and subtract some, you get Voldemort.
Voldemort, our favorite villain of the Dark Arts, hates prophecies almost as much
as the King of Corners.
“The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches
... born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies
... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the
Dark Lord knows not ... and either must die at the hand of the other for
neither can live while the other survives ... the one with the power to
vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies ..."
I agree, that would scare me if I were old Voldy, but he killed two
people, mangled two more, and attempted to kill two infants because he was so
scared. This overall quest for power and attempt to stop the prophecy only made
the prophecy come true, just like Macbeth.
Be warned for next time:
If you get a prophecy don’t try very hard to avoid having it come true, because
it will. No matter what. Deal with it.
Voldemort shooting wand beams at Macbeth who is deflecting it with a mirror.
