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Shaking Things The Shakespearean Way

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India today is a mess. A complete cow-dung of a situation. But the scenario provides hilarious opportunities for the internet to come up with various trolls, artwork ranging from peacock porn to urine drinking Samis. But for a literature student who grew up hearing the various lines from the works of Shakespeare, India gave the opportunity to shake things up, re imagining what those lines would be today. Here are a few such one-liners inspired from the Bard of Avon, but spelled out by a social media mongering-beef-eating-anti-national-Indian of today.

 

  • On bans and …well, bans:

Original: To be or not to be: that is the question.  (Hamlet)

 

  • On the petrol woe:

      Original: Frailty, thy name is woman. (Hamlet)

 

  • On the ‘act’ of Nationalism:

 Original: All the world’s a stage, all the men and women merely its players. (As You Like It)

  • On the ‘traitors’:

 Original: How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child. (King Lear)

  • On the cows ( like obviously):

Original: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. (Twelfth Night)

  • On those deadly tears:

Original: Beware the ides of March. (Julius Caesar) 

  • On the cashless economy:

Original: Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. (Hamlet)

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