The Meaning Of Life And Society In Shakespeare's Macbeth

In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, Shakespeare expresses all the things that he thinks could be wrong with society. Like killing your relatives for a better social status. In Macbeth we see the issues of social status, ambition, leaders of the family and a whole bundle of other issues. Macbeth himself experiences these issues and through him we can see how they could affect our daily lives. In Macbeths tomorrow soliloquy Macbeth shares with us the meaning of life, life in general, and he shows us how he is being weakened. In Macbeths soliloquy, act V scene v, Macbeth shows us how the ruthless cold killer he is has but for a moment turned into the soft hearted “from the milk of human kindness” we has in Act I scene II. He shows us that the death of his wife is sad to him, and he becomes human again. “All our yesterdays have lightened fools, the way to dusty death.” Birnad tells us …show more content…
“Out Out Brief candle!” Act V; v. life is brief and in that time a lot can happen, but it’s the significance of it that matters, or are you an “idiot telling a tale, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”? Macbeth isn’t sure just how he wasted all this time trying to be king, and in turn wasting his life because within a few moments he is going to die for sure (Mate). He would kill anyone to stay in power, like he did to Banquo and Duncan, but now he is sort of throwing in the towel, saying it’s done. The cold stone warrior has turned to give this numb tomorrow speech that rings the truth of just how cut throat life can be (Gossan). That means a lot to the play, if Macbeth can be a cold killer the whole play and let his wife slip off into nothing, why does he care about life now? Because it is almost over, like how retired couples go on long vacations, they know their time is ending and they want it to be the best they can have it. Macbeth won’t get that luxury, he knows he’s going to be killed in combat and die