"Good wombs hath borne bad sons"
- Shakesphere
2006-12-25 11:24:41 · 12 answers · asked by Sliceathroat 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Good women can have bad children. Decent people can have indecent children. In other words, good is not inherited. Just because a mother is "good" doesn't mean that her children will be. Shakesphere is arguing that maybe the apple DOES fall far from the tree.
2006-12-25 18:10:20 · answer #1 · answered by holly m 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Humans are the product of genetics and their specific environment.Descending from a good womb means coming from a healthy bloodline. However, in times of Shakespere, a good womb meant that from the line of the Kings and noblemen. So, what he meant is that a person born from into high class English family could as well become disobedient, a wrongdoer and a mischief or a harlot. However, in my opinion, Shakespere, as a patron for the English Kings and noblemen, would not extend this beyond what is considered noble and useful, other than what would serve the English classification and definitions of merits and virtues.
2006-12-25 12:25:28 · answer #2 · answered by kampirus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What a lousy earth! How many winners were losers, successes failures, and rich men poor men? How many wise guys were stupid? How many happy endings were unhappy endings? How many honest men were liars, brave men cowards, loyal men traitors, how many sainted men were corrupt, how many people in positions of trust had sold their souls to blackguards for petty cash, how many had never had souls? How many straight-and-narrow paths were crooked paths? How many best families were worst families and how many good people were bad people? When you added them all up and then subtracted, you might be left with only the children, and perhaps with an Albert Einstein and an old violinist or sculptor somewhere.
Heller once said, "Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?"
Robert M. Young, writing about Catch-22, answers, "For the most part, what they try to do is survive in any way they can."
2006-12-25 15:58:46 · answer #3 · answered by ••Mott•• 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good wombs have borne bad sons [11]. and, for example, ... Hath well compos'd thee. Thy father's moral parts ... Commanded nature, that his lady's womb, ...
2006-12-25 11:36:32 · answer #4 · answered by Grapy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that a mother who is a good person can bear a son that is a bad person.
Shakespeare is easy once you get used to it.
2006-12-25 13:59:33 · answer #5 · answered by celestraof12worlds 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I doubt that you copied this quotation correctly.
But that’s just it.
An excellent writer uses the language correctly and later a native speaker (of a good womb) proves a bad son (by misspelling etc)
I am utterly surprised at the way you spell the Bard’s name!
No harm intended, but please, treat your language carefully!!!
You are welcome!
2006-12-25 13:30:55 · answer #6 · answered by saehli 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Despite how good a women maybe, her offspring may not necessarily have the same temperament. In short good women can have bad kids...
2006-12-25 11:34:17 · answer #7 · answered by milehighaviator 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Evil can be born to good
2006-12-25 11:26:51 · answer #8 · answered by moose on the loose 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means that bad people can be from a good home, and that sometimes they are judged wrongly.
2006-12-25 11:28:41 · answer #9 · answered by C F 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-04-06 23:44:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋