Sweeney Todd as Belated Macbeth
and a freak of instrumental reason
I want to argue here that Sweeney Todd is a sort of belated Macbeth, archetype-wise. Both characters cause disaster by attempting to negate a disaster, Macbeth before it happened and Sweeney Todd after it happened. Macbeth is a freak of anxiety and Sweeney Todd is a freak of resentment, two twin phenomena that cause the very suffering they supposedly re…
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