Is there existentialism in Macbeth?

Question

I need an answer ASAP, plz!!!! It's for a reseach paper and I googled it and I din't really understand if there was existentialism in Macbeth.

Answer 1

While Macbeth certainly stepped outside the box when it was written, at first glance I am going to say 'No', there is no existentialism in it.

There is about 400 years between Shakespeare's time and the existentialists, so that's pretty prohibitive.

Shakespeare was ahead of his time in many ways, but not quite that far ahead.

EDIT:
A Google search of 'existentialism shakespeare' yielded lots of results, so apparently somebody thinks there's a connection.

Here's an essay I found:
http://www.123helpme.com/assets/3050.html

Answer 2

you can say that because at the end in one of his monlogue, he is comparing his life to a brief candle and he is like a minor character on stage -- an actor practices and rehearses so much before the performance but his actual role in the play is insignificant and is only appeared in a few minutes. At last, the audience will not remember him. He connects himself with this in the sense that when his life has to end(Malcolm's army), he has no control over it and that he will not be remembered after he died despite all the good things that he's done.