Month: November 2016

I think Macbeth is trying to say that life is meaningless as he says “To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day” what he is saying about life is that life is dangerous as time will try to creep up on you and try to attack when you are not ready as he says creeps in this petty pace saying time moves slowly but will catch up and get you with a surprise attack as you wont see it coming. When he says about all our yesterdays have enlightened fools. What he is trying to say about life is that people that are interested in others history are fools to be interested in people’s past/history. The way to dusty death is saying that as you live you are going to a journey to a dusty death and that no one will care when you die as this journey is pointless as a dry and boring life.

What Macbeth is trying to say about life in the tomorrow to tomorrow soliloquy. On the second line of the soliloquy Macbeth says that “To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,” this means day after day it is the same then after this he says “Creeps in this petty pace from day to day”. He is trying to say that every day creeps up on him when he is not ready and that there is a pattern on a daily cycle as he is saying creeps in this petty pace. Petty pace as it has no importance and one day of this cycle and one day it will creep up on him and get him when he not ready or when he feels safe. After saying this he goes on saying “till the very last syllable” when he is saying this he means this cycle will go on till the very last word is said and when this happens every one will be dead to live the very next day and will stop the cycle.