Comprehension

What Macbeth’s unusual reaction to the sound of women lamenting?

Macbeth is conscious not to have reaction in hearing a women’s cry, but some time ago his senses would have cold.

What is Macbeth’s reaction to the news that the queen is dead?

He hasn’t any reaction, he becomes insensibility.

How do you think queen has died?

The queen has to face her conscience so the remorse take her to commit suicide.

Interpretation

Underline the words and phrases in lines 14-23 that refer to sound, movement, time, light and the theatre.

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's 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.

The words give a sense of continuous movement, life is like a candle or like a serpent, something which quickly run away and people have to live fully their life. Human beings are like actors who interpret a role in their life, but it doesn’t last enough and so people don’t have to waste it. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth dedicate their life to power, but Lady Macbeth obtains only suffering and pain while Macbeth become a “tyrant”, somebody who can’t be considered human, indeed he doesn’t feel emotions .