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“I have lived long enough. My way of life is fall’n into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love obedience, troops or friends, I must not look to have.” (V,iii,171). In this quote, Macbeth wishes for a normal life for which he would have lived to an honorable age but he recognizes that he has denied himself of this. Another poetic quote that shows Macbeth’s despair: “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time… Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.” (V,v,177). His despairing speeches of the meaninglessness of life are too poetic for a complete
