Consider what has happened to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. After Romeo Montague kills Juliet Capulet's cousin Tybalt in their families' feud, one character argues that Romeo should be forgiven, since Tybalt had just killed a friend of Romeo's.
Seeing me in these Hollywood glossy comedies, you wouldn't expect me to do a turn as Lady Capulet. But I was a new mother when I got offered this role.
Baldwin's journey with Shakespeare illustrates a profound relationship where he initially views language as a tool of oppression, only to later embrace it as a means to express his own experiences.