{"id":389,"date":"2008-02-23T23:31:02","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T03:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/02\/23\/the-message-of-macbeth\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T23:44:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:44:05","slug":"the-message-of-macbeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"The Message of Macbeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Shakespeare did not write for your ease of reading,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>No kidding, I thought.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He wrote to express something about what it means to be a human being in words more beautiful than had ever yet been written.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So in <em>Macbeth,<\/em> when he wasn&#8217;t trying to find names that sound alike, what did he want to express in words more beautiful than had ever yet been written?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Baker looked at me for a long moment.\u00a0 Then she went and sat back down at her desk.\u00a0 &#8220;That we are made for more than power,&#8221; she said softly.\u00a0 &#8220;That we are made for more than our desires. That pride combined with stubbornness can be disaster.\u00a0 And that compared with love, malice is a small and petty thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Gary D. Schmidt, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/wednesday_wars.html\">The Wednesday Wars<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Shakespeare did not write for your ease of reading,&#8221; she said. No kidding, I thought. &#8220;He wrote to express something about what it means to be a human being in words more beautiful than had ever yet been written.&#8221; &#8220;So in Macbeth, when he wasn&#8217;t trying to find names that sound alike, what did he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,9,15,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-life","category-love","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10222,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/10222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}