It really doesn't............................
1) When it comes to Shakespeare our truncated attention spans might make it difficult to understand the complex structure and language within his work.
2) A contemporary of Shakespeare's may have understood the language in his works because they lived at the same time as him.
3) Many readers like the phantasmagoric scenes in Shakespeare's plays because they are dreamlike or surreal.
4) We get a vicarious thrill out of reading fiction because it provides us with imagined interpretations.
Why is the baby crying? Did he get it to stop crying? Poor baby.
Answer:
Dr Hewitt is able to break the piece of wood in his demonstration given that he had knowledge about the concept of momentum, which is esentially the product of the mass and speed of an object.
Aplying this idea, he used the correct momentum of his hand over a short period of time and that is how he was able to break the piece of wood.
In the lines: "life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage", Macbeth is expressing that life lacks substance and he is also comparing it to the life of an actor who is performing and all of a sudden he is no longer doing so.
In the lines: "it is a tale/told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing", Macbeth is comparing life to a story told by someone who lacks intelligence; therefore, it is sort of meaningless.