“Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air.”
Our students have been diving deep into the complexities of ambition and fate in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. In Class 10, we don’t just ask our students to memorise Shakespeare, we invite them to remain curious. Curious about Macbeth’s choices, curious about the ‘fog and filthy air’ of his ambition, and curious about the mirror the play holds up to our own lives. As Rudolf Steiner noted, when we look past the surface to the ‘essential,’ the art becomes even more powerful.
Pictured below is an amazing scene from the Macbeth performance.
In Class 10 Main Lesson, they have been exploring the “essential” truths within Macbeth. Beyond the costumes and the lines, they are discovering the profound spiritual and moral questions that Shakespeare posed over 400 years ago. Questions that are just as relevant for our teenagers today…
“Whether Shakespeare believed in ghosts and witches… is not the point at all: He simply asked himself: How should a ghost or a witch appear on the stage so as to produce a strong effect upon the audience? … Shakespeare’s plays leave a strong impression, even when performed badly. And when a time comes in which we again see the essential… the effect of Shakespeare’s art will be even greater.” — Rudolf Steiner
