Macbeth Through The Selfish Eye

I am sitting in front of my laptop thinking of a way I could find The Selfish Gene a bit more interesting. I decided to take my imagination to a more scientific perspective turning myself into the one and only Richard Dawkins. I don't make a really good Dawkins, but it's worth a try.

When "I" wrote: "The new soup is the soup of human culture. We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or unit of imitation. Instead of writing, "examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases,clothes [...] (192)."I" would have used Shakespeare and Macbeth as the one example.

Shakespeare has been an "idea that catches on, it can be said to propagate itself, spreading from brain to brain"(192). Shakespeare has been an all time writer who has enlightened the world with his wonderful masterpieces such as Macbeth. But, "How does it {meme} replicate itself?"(192). By the spoken and written word, aided by great music and art" (193). We can see it with the following:

"If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well It were done quickly. If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here,"(Act 1 Scene 7) "Why does this have such survival value?" (193) It has been Shakespeare who has inspired the art of English literature and the genes of his work who have prevailed through time.