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180 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1623
its really complicated and stupid!
why cant we be reading like Romeo and Juliet?!?!
at least that book is good!
This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that you don't want to read is awful.
Reading a play kinda sucks to begin with, if it was meant to be read, then it would be a novel, not a play. On top of that the teach had us students read the play aloud (on person for each character for a couple pages). None of us had read the play before. None of us wanted to read it (I made the mistake of taking the 'easy' english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that looked like they weren't paying attention. All of this compounded to make me pretty much hate reading classics for something like 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem).
I also hate iambic pentameter.
In my personal opinion, the play Macbeth was the worste peice ever written by Shakespeare, and this is saying quite a bit considering i also read his Romeo and Juliet. Ontop of it's already unbelievable plot, unrealistic characters and absolutly discusting set of morals, Shakespeare openly portrays Lady Macbeth as the true vilian in the play. Considering she is mearly the voice in the back round and Macbeth himself is truely committing the hideous crimes, including murder and fraud, I do not see why it is so easy to assume that Macbeth would be willing to do good instead of evil if only his wife were more possitive. I believe that this play is uterally unrealistic.
I hate this play. So much so that I can't even give you any analogies or similes as to how much I despise it.
- the witches! they are the original halloween qweens. they are serving some major spooky realness. also, they went and haunted a woman just because she wouldnt share her hazelnuts. that is the exact level of petty that i aspire to be.
- lady macbeth. honestly, everything she says (especially to her husband) is so savage. she doesnt want to be a queen, she wants to be the queen. and her first scene is iconic. 鈥渦nsex me.鈥� yaaassss. ditch those bonds of femininity. be the murderous biotch we all want you to be.
- how someone born by a c-section is the key factor for determining the outcome of pretty much everything. soooo random. lol.
- that the english army thought they could hide behind tree branches and sneak up on macbeth for a surprise attack.
- the fact the macbeth believed it and actually thought it was the forest.
- 鈥渨hat, you egg!?鈥� is now my go-to insult.
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow鈥�,鈥�
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day鈥庘€�,鈥�
To the last syllable of recorded time鈥�;鈥�
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle鈥�!鈥�
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player鈥�,鈥�
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage鈥�,鈥�
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury鈥�,鈥�
Signifying nothing鈥�
On expressing one鈥檚 grief:
What, man! ne鈥檈r pull your hat upon your brows;
Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o鈥檈r-fraught heart and bids it break.
On not having enough gumption:
Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o鈥� the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great;
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it.
On contemplating ambition鈥檚 worth:
Nought鈥檚 had, all鈥檚 spent,
Where our desire is got without content:
鈥橳is safer to be that which we destroy
Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.
On being past the point of no return:
All causes shall give way: I am in blood
Stepp鈥檇 in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o鈥檈r.
On the futility of life:
Life鈥檚 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.
On the finality of death:
There鈥檚 nothing serious in mortality:
All is but toys: renown and grace is dead;
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.
"賲賱丨賵馗丞 : 丕賱賲乇丕噩毓丞 賲賳 賵丨賷 丕賱禺賷丕賱..賵丕賷 鬲卮丕亘賴 亘賷賳賴丕 賵亘賷賳 丕賱賵丕賯毓 賮賴賵 賲賳 賲丨囟 丕賱氐丿賮丞 賵丕賱禺賷丕賱"
賵丕鬲賲賳賷 丕賳 賷賯乇兀賴丕 賰賱 丕賱丨賰丕賲...賵賱丕 賷賰鬲賮賵丕 亘賲噩乇丿 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 丨鬲賷 丕賱賮氐賱 丕賱孬丕賳賷
鈥淟a vida es una sombra que camina, un pobre actor que en escena se arrebata y contonea y nunca m谩s se le oye. Es un cuento que cuenta un idiota, lleno de ruido y de furia, que no significa nada.鈥�