The infamous monologue in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” portrays the depressed protagonist, Macbeth, ranting about the slow progression of life, the fragile mindlessness of life, and the meaningless of life in a dramatic monologue. Facing his end, Macbeth’s view darkens as everyone around him betrays him and fall to the hands of death. The progression of life is captured in two metaphors, where Macbeth compares the past and the future in the behaviour of humankind. The tedious, slow approach of tomorrow is personified as a person who “creeps in this petty pace from day to day.” Creep, as the governing verb of the metaphor, implies life’s behaviour of acting in a lack of dignity. Shakespeare utilises the verb to exhibit life's slow progression to
