Last week I started watching House of Cards at home,
because I'm in the awkward mid season time of the Walking Dead so I wanted to
find something to watch in the meantime.
Simultaneously, we started to read Macbeth in my English class. Almost
immediately the similarity between these two stories struck me. My teacher told
me that articles have been written about this topic, and frankly I'm not
surprised.
The parallelism between them is pretty obvious. I first noticed it
with the "asides" in Macbeth, where he shares his thoughts with the
audience on the matter. In House of Cards, Frank Underwood occasionally breaks
the fourth wall and does the exact same thing, hilariously explaining how much
he hates literally everyone.
Everyone, that is, except his wife, Clair. Clair
is essentially a modern day version of Lady Macbeth, especially in terms of her
relationship with her husband. Together, they are an incredibly ambitious
dynamic duo on a motivated quest for power, demolishing every obstacle in their
way. Their relationship is a mirror image of that of Macbeth in his wife, as
they together will stop at nothing to achieve rule.
I haven't gotten far into
either of these yet, but if I make more observations maybe I'll make a sequel to
this post.
Rudolph out.
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