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macbeth

i think macbeth is so great. shakespeare's works really have so many moments that are just super poignant with incredible verse. personally, i'm not actually big on plays. but the language itself conveys emotion and drama so well. perhaps it's inaccessible and maybe it's a bit silly to really like it, but something about his writing can feel so powerful. one of my favorite bits from macbeth, and a top excerpt from all of shakespeare, is in act 5 scene 5:

[MACBETH]

        Wherefore was that cry?

SEYTON

        The queen, my lord, is dead.

MACBETH 

        She should have died hereafter;
        There would have been a time for such a word.
        To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
        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.

much like king lear, shakespeare is genuinely in his nihilist bag here. i've never known a vicious man like macbeth who stole his crown and kingdom through violence and wicked magic manipulation, but this is exactly how i'd imagine such a person to speak (also note that it's basically him talking to himself!) at his final hour as everything was falling apart. the death of his partner here is just another bit of "sound and fury" that means nothing.