Thursday, April 17, 2008

1 Year Off the Stuff


A while back when I still played World of Warcraft (WoW) I met some unique people. I met this guy named Dhamion. He was 38 and he was married. He sometimes talked about how his wife didn’t like him playing the game because it took up so much of his time. For 2 years we played WoW together. He played for hours a day and had a lot of free time. His wife said he should stop playing because they don’t spend any time together. He snuck on once in a while and played with me, but eventually he got pretty guilty and said “I can’t do this anymore”. He quit and spent some quality time with his family.
The point of this story, besides showing the evil’s of WoW, is that guild it a very strong emotion. It can even keep a man from playing his life long adventure. Everyone has a run in with guilt once in a while. Like when you steal your sisters cookie and blame it on your brother, or if you throw a body into the Hudson. Everyone would feel slightly guilty doing something like that. The most guilty thing I ever do nowadays is thinking about playing WoW again. The temptation is there and if I started playing again I know it would consume my life, so I feel guilty everytiem i think about the stuff.
In Macbeth guilt is not the biggest factor. In Macbeth the Hero and his wife do not really show their guilt in the play. Macbeth turns into a tyrant and shows no emotion over killing his best friend; however, Lady Macbeth starts sleepwalking and eventually dies. We think she kills herself thus showing that she probably felt very bad for killing a lot of people. I don’t think anyone else felt guilty. Guilt played a pretty small role in Macbeth.

1 comment:

J Saxon said...

Interesting link to the video. I'm not sure what the 80's song has to do with the post though, but I got a chuckle out of it.