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Lady Macbeth's Despair

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Shakespeare, via the protagonist Macbeth, pessimistically approaches the significance of life as Macbeth discerns that Lady Macbeth died. Shakespeare eliminates Macbeth’s dwindling sanity, consequently exposing Macbeth’s despair caused by the intolerable burden of time. In the scene, Shakespeare utilizes Lady Macbeth’s death as the undoing of Macbeth himself. Shakespeare tragically illuminates the trudging of time with rhythmic repetition, “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day…”(Shakespeare 19). The repetition of “tomorrow” expresses the incongruous passing of time as after Lady Macbeth’s death, Macbeth no longer grasps onto a secure future compared to the beginning of the play and his foretold

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