Emilysidhe Baby It's Cold Outside Discourse Is the Same as Macbeth Discourse Dont-Spoop-Yourself Explain? Emilysidhe OK So One of the Big Debates in Macbeth Involves the Scene in Which Lady Macbeth Talks Macbeth Into Killing King Duncan People Debate Strenuously Over Whether It's a Scene of Lady M Pressuring Her Reluctant Husband Into It or Whether It's a Scene of Her Sensing Due to Their Emotional Intimacy That This Murder Is Something Her Husband Secretly Wants and Has Partially Internally Decided to Do and Is Arguing Him Into It in Order to Help Him Give Himself Permission to Do It in the Same Way That People See Their Loved Ones Wavering Over the Dessert Menu and Jump in With Things Like Go on Get the Cheesecake It's Your Birthday! Readers and Scholars Disagree Strenuously About This - We Even Studied an Incident in College in Which Two 18th Century Illustrators Attended the Same Performance and Happened to Draw the Scene the Day After Producing Two Images That Advanced Opposite Interpretations Even Though They'd Seen the Exact Same Actors Do the Exact Same Performance It's a Big Deal in the Same Way the Baby It's Cold Outside Discourse Is About Whether This Is a Song About Sexual Harassment or Whether It's a Woman Singing About How She Wishes She Could Spend the Night With the Guy She Just Had an Excellent Date With if Only the Neighbors Wouldn't Talk and Him Responding Stay Baby It's Cold Out! No One Could Expect You to Go Home in This! Ms-Demeanor I Really Don't Know Baby Stab His Side King Duncan's a Bro Baby Cut Through His Hide I Like Him a Lot That Decrepit Old Sot? This Plan Ain't So Great but What a King You'd Make! The Guards Might Worry Darling Do It in a Hurry! His Sons Will Rush the Door So Knock Them on the Floor I'm Not Such a Knave Bash His Head With a Stave but l'D Be a Good King Now You're Starting to Think the Dukes Might All Talk but Their Chatter Means Naught Say Love What Do You Mean You'd Make Such a King I Simply Must Go Baby Cut Through His Hide There's a War on You Know Baby Cut Through His Hide but What of His Wife? And What of His Life? It Feels Like Bad Luck but That Don't Mean Much l'Ve Got a Bad Premonition and l'Ve Got a Mission but That's Just Superstition My Love You're a Vision the Witches Said l'D Rule if They Lied They Were Cruel So Babv Let's Stab Stab His Siiiide! I Figure Someone Mightve Posted This Before but Its Still Appropriate for Christmas