FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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a worthless, meaningless existence
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a hopeful future of reigning as the King of Scotland
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dull, and the only way to make it interesting is to put actors to death
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a candle he has burned at both ends, and he’s ready to retire
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Detailed explanation-1: -Macbeth compares life to an actor and a senseless story. Macbeth has become so numb because of his own terrible actions he can’t even react when his wife dies. All he can do is comment on how meaningless life is.
Detailed explanation-2: -Macbeth’s Soliloquy: To be thus is nothing (3.1. Given to the common enemy of man, To make them kings, the seeds of Banquo kings! Rather than so, come fate into the list. And champion me to the utterance!
Detailed explanation-3: -Once the servant has gone, Macbeth begins a soliloquy. He muses on the subject of Banquo, reflecting that his old friend is the only man in Scotland whom he fears. He notes that if the witches’ prophecy is true, his will be a “fruitless crown, ” by which he means that he will not have an heir (3.1. 62).
Detailed explanation-4: -Key quotation: I have lived long enough: my way of life / Is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf (lines 22–3). Macbeth is saying that he has lost his reason for living. Life, for him, has lost its meaning and he feels it’s withering and falling away like a yellow leaf in autumn. Macbeth is tired of living.