The parallels between John Dee's arc in Neil Gaiman's TheSandman and that of Shakespeare's Macbeth beg the question: how detrimental is ambition?
Great writers never take the work of their predecessors with a grain of salt. And there is a very good reason for that. The worth of contemporary writers, those that genuinely deserve critical attention, is determined in relation to the standards of the canon.
RELATED: 'The Sandman': Gwendoline Christie, Kirby Howell-Baptiste & Jenna Coleman on the Appeal of Their Characters Given this tragic backstory, it is clear that John is not inherently a bad person, although he does end up making some awful choices. In contrast, Macbeth, unlike John, didn’t grow up under the influence of supernatural forces, but once influenced, he becomes the very thing that brings forth his downfall.
A Reflection of Macbeth In this way, among others, John is a remarkable reflection of Macbeth. Under the influence of inexplicable, otherworldly forces, he is engulfed by desire and ambition, losing sight of all that might hold him back from entering the realm of the extramundane — the only place where his untethered sanity finds a harbor of sorts.
The allusion to this is simply impossible to miss in The Sandman. Before the appearance of The Three, all John wanted to do was bring his ideal world to life: a world where honesty would be prioritized over empathy, a flawed ideology rooted in unresolved past pain rather than an inborn thirst for bloodshed.
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