while the entire Scottish play exchange is hilarious can I talk for one second about how we should be kind to people that don’t know something???
Many films, songs, books, plays, and other media reference other media without telling you that’s what they’re doing and if you don’t ever read/see/research to learn what it’s originally from how would you know and can you really be blamed or be “less literate” for not knowing?
In Beauty and the Beast, Gaston sings “screw your courage to the sticking place” during the Kill the Beast song. For YEARS this is what I knew the quote from and just through of it as a Beauty and the Beast quote.
It was not until many years later when I read saw M*cbeth that I realized Beauty and the Beast was quoting Shakespeare.
Now was I just stupid and illiterate the first 17 years of my life for not knowing this? Should I have killed myself for thinking that was an original quote?