Comments on: Shakespeare Has Insights On Everything – Why Not Money?

By: rodgerlvu

rodgerlvu — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:41:42 +0000

thanks. I love this post–I linked it and added a Shakespeare line of my own.

By: dryboy

dryboy — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:43:41 +0000

I love the quote from Timon. I think it has to do with more than just the competition for wealth, however. He seems to be saying that the main power of money is to reverse moral values and mutilate the truth. Timon indicates that it will make honest people criminals, and criminals into respected leaders, that it will create and destroy churches, that it makes things that are naturally repugnant suddenly desirable. In the story, he had gone from riches to rags, and his supposed friends all abandoned him and refused to help him. When he stumbled onto the treasure, suddenly they all came running back, pretending to be his friends again.
The Bard nailed it right on the head.

By: gildedbutterfly

gildedbutterfly — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:59:26 +0000

Great post! I named my blog from a Shakespearean quote, and linked back to you in my explanation: http://gildedbutterfly.wordpress.com/2007/07/02/as-if-we-were-gods-spies/

By: English Major

English Major — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:43:29 +0000

I love this post–I linked it and added a Shakespeare line of my own.