macbeth??!!?

Question

do you agree with macbeth that life "is a tale/told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / signifying nothing"? why or why not?

Answer 1

While I don't incorporate it into my personal philosophy, it is a point of view or attitude with some merit.

Life is, indeed, a tale told by an idiot. As we each write our own histories, we make decisions while ignorant of the future, and more often than not, oblivious to the past. We certainly do not know how our own stories will end.

Most of us live lives full of sound and fury, in that we panic over some crisis or other on a weekly if not daily basis. Perhaps we don't deal with the scale of problems that a president of a country or a company does, but when someone writes us a bad check or we run out of coffee, it's a crisis full of sound and fury indeed.

I don't know about life signifying nothing. Each one of us has to determine what the significance of our own Life is, no one else can do that for us. Perhaps people whose only reason to keep living is the fear of Death would say life signifies nothing. I don't know, but I don't buy into that at all.

Anyway, Bill wasn't saying HE felt this way, just how he was saying Macbeth felt at the time.