Question: Macbeth's Final Soliloquy!?
What does MacBeth's solioquy (below) mean!. ( Help! It's so confusing! Thanks soo much!)
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death!. Out, out, brief candle!.'
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more!. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Well, like all poetry it can mean different things to different people based on their interpretation of the lines!.
I'd say that what he's saying means(paraphrased):
Tomorrow is always just out of reach, and the days never stop coming!. Everyone who looked to the light of tomorrow have still died, like fools, still hoping for tomorrow and what that may bring!. Days are like candles that burn for a few hours!.!.!. this one too is ending!. Our lives are but shadows in that light, etherial but really nothing!.
Our lives are as important as characters in a play!. You can hear and see us while alive, but life is short and once you're gone you don't matter!.
Life is pointless!.!.!. idiots make a big deal about it!.!.!. but it means nothing!.
(the context of this is important!. everything that he has lived for and believed to be true has crashed down around him!. he knows that he is about to die and is bitter at being fooled by fate [the witches] into this pointless end!. He knows that he is fighting a losing battle but at this point is giving up
you should make time to watch a movie version of it, you might be able to gleam a little more from actually hearing it)Www@QuestionHome@Com