Reference: These lines are taken from Macbeth composed by William Shakespeare.
Explanation: These words are uttered by Macbeth
after he hears of Lady Macbeth’s death, in Act 5, scene 5, lines 16-27. Given
the great love between them, his response is oddly muted, but it segues quickly
into a speech of such pessimism and despair-one of the most famous speeches in
all of Shakespeare—that the audience realizes how completely his wife’s passing
and the ruin of his power have undone Macbeth. His speech insists that there is
no meaning or purpose in life. Rather, life “is a tale/Told by an idiot, full
of sound and fury,/signifying nothing.” One can easily understand how, with his
wife dead and armies marching against him, Macbeth succumbs to such pessimism.
Yet, there is also a defensive and self-justifying quality to his words. If
everything is meaningless, then Macbeth’s awful crimes are somehow made less
awful, because, like everything else, they too “signify nothing.”
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