As I watch the primary season near it's end, I see someone's dream slipping away and
a personal tragedy reaching its conclusion. Although I don't support her, I don't "hate" her.
It's going to be hard for her to admit defeat.
As a fan of Joseph Campbell I see the "roles" the "archetypes" that public figures take on and when it goes bad, I look for literary parallels and I find myself asking HWSWI?
(How Would Shakespeare Write It?)
Which Of Shakespeare's Characters Would Hillary Be?
Her run for the WH is beginning to read like a modern day version of some Shakespearean play
or ancient Greek political tragedy.
I thought about it and only one answer fit: Lady Macbeth.
I'd thought maybe Hamlets "Ophelia"? Both plays were political. Both characters go "mad" in the end but her "role" as a modern day Lady Macbeth is, while not a perfect fit, just too damned similar to not enjoy the irony contained therein. (If gender weren't an issue I'd almost go with "Julius Caesar" and her as Brutus to Obama's Caesar for obvious backstabbing reasons.)
From Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Macbethwith my snark in parens()
"After her husband, Macbeth of Scotland (Bill Of Hope), told her in a letter about his (her) opportunity to become king (President), she tells herself that his temperament is "too full o' the milk of human kindness" (I feel your pain!) for the necessary evil to kill the existing monarch (front runner), King Duncan (Obama), and so make this possible. In her eagerness, she calls for dark forces (Atwater/ Rove)to "unsex"(pant-suit) her and fill her with "direst cruelty." (duck hunting?) On his return, Macbeth defers deciding on the matter, but when the king has arrived, she ends his moral dilemma by manipulating him with clever arguments into committing the assassination. While Macbeth initially balks at the bloody tasks (S.Carolina remarks) she insists that they are necessary to seize the throne; she wants him to leave everything to her and pull himself together, shocks him and questions his (excess of) masculinity."
And well, you know how the play ends, symbolically speaking.
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