These words are uttered by Macbeth after he hears of Lady Macbeth’s death, in Act 5, scene 5, lines 16–27. Given the great love between them, his response is oddly muted, but it segues quickly into a speech of such pessimism and despair—one of the most famous speeches in all of Shakespeare—that the audience realizes how completely his wife’s passing and the ruin of his power have undone Macbeth. His speech insists that there is no meaning or purpose in life. Rather, life “is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.” One can easily understand how, with his wife dead and armies marching against him, Macbeth succumbs to such pessimism. Yet, there is also a defensive and self-justifying quality to his words. If everything is meaningless, then Macbeth’s awful crimes are somehow made less awful, because, like everything else, they too “signify nothing.”
The central idea shows that for progress to happen, people must burn down existing structures and move forward, as shown in option C.
Through questions similar to yours, we can see that you are referring to the section "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" written by Thoreau in the book "Walden."
By reading this section, we can see that:
- Thoreau believed that for society to progress, it would be necessary to abandon existing social and political structures.
- This abandonment would promote equality in the population and allow everyone to detach themselves from material goods and any kind of wealth.
- Thus, people would enter a state of "voluntary poverty" where they would not worry about their status and would strive to strengthen their spirits and minds, promoting individual progress, which would automatically promote social progress.
Thus, we can say that for Thoreau, progress did not walk in communion with the structures determined by society that valued wealth and social hierarchy.
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The <u>main similarity between both poems</u>; the purple cow by Gellett Burgess and the mending wall of Robert Frost is their humorous language.
The American Poet Robert Frost explores the theme of humor in his poem "The Mending Wall". Just like the line, "Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder if I could put a notion on his head."
