the acorn and the oak

In mid-1970s, a social historian whose name memory is not serving to remember, remarked that the Beatles music in early1960s waved the final good-bye to family and home life, a social phenomenon that was the oak that grew out of the acorn that goes back to the Renaissance when Western subconscious developed anti-family attitudes. In Shakespeare the great man of the Renaissance we conspicuously find this dislike and even condemnation of family life. The root of Hamlet's problem is family life: uncle and step-father and mother, and the father who invloves him in a situation in spite of him. Hence Hamlet, "O cursed spite that I was born to set it right.". "Othello" is a play about rejection of husband-and-wife life. King Lear's daughters revolt to liberate themselves from parents' domination. "Macbeth" is about hatred of chilrden, although we don't know how many children Lady Macbeth had. "Romero and Juliet" is about the burden and tragic consequences of belonging to families.
Epilogue: On ground, Shakespeare the man, after a couple of years of marital life and commitment, waved good-bye to wife, home and three children and went down to live in London free from family