'Nay but to live
In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,
Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love
Over the nasty sty...' " (page 131).
Personally, I found it humbling that John turned to Shakespeare throughout his youth. I also found it utterly disturbing. Shakespeare wrote a wide range of powerful literature, but tragedy is common on his list of works. John is getting advice from made up stories of people who kill each other? Okay, this is just going too far. Yes, it is amazing that he is advanced in the sense that he can read, blah blah blah. But I don't want him reading this! It's encouraging him to do bad things! It's almost similar to how technology in our world can inspire us to do harm to society. Take the media, for instance. It used to be incredibly crude to speak cuss words, but since it's funny on television, people think that it's okay to speak like that. People play Grand Theft Auto, where they become accustomed to the feel of destruction, and now we have tight security everywhere. Why? Because crimes are now commonplace, and personally, I think that it's because of the media. Just think about what Facebook has done to the world. Okay, I have a Facebook myself, but people spend hours just creeping on each others' business! Since when was this okay? Personally, I don't care when people are going to bed or when they wake up! People no longer keep things to themselves anymore. I don't care who is going to King's Island. I don't care about the new pictures uploaded on a person's summer album to prove to the world they had a life this summer. Cool. Put the pictures on your desktop and spend your own time admiring how cute your pictures are. No one needs to be creepin' on your stuff, so don't let them. It's just so dumb. The point is, John was encouraged by the Shakespeare book to do harm to another person. And, maybe not. People in the town did stone him all the time, so maybe he was raised around violence, but still. Many things inspire us in this world to do harm or do stupid pointless things, and quite frankly, it's not what we were called to do. I don't care what world we live in, whether it's a utopian world or not. It's wrong, and quite frankly, it's dumb.
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