We just finished reading Macbeth in English 12. Macbeth is easily my favorite Shakespeare play. I can't get enough of the creepy witches, the ghosts, the murder, the blood, the sleepwalking, the insanity, and the witches again. However, I do think the little loophole twist at the end is pretty weak.
I remember reading these lines when I first read the play in my 11th grade Advanced Composition class. They are probably my favorite Shakespeare lines as well. Macbeth says them in Act 5, Scene 5, after hearing that his wife has just committed suicide.
"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty place 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."
I think I read somewhere that Bob Dylan got the name for his song "Idiot Wind" from this passage. I guess it makes sense.
I'm going to make some hot cocoa and watch Something Wicked This Way Comes, a movie based on a book by Ray Bradbury, who also got his title from Macbeth.
I should really see the play performed on stage some time. Anyone want to join me?
We are idiots, babe. It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves.
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