/lit/ - Literature

>>11602014
>And what is the significance of Macbeth’s famous soliloquy towards the end of the play, where he denounces life as absurd, “signifying nothing?”
It's a grand statement of the truth of nihilism, that life is meaningless; the best poetic statement of nihilism in the English language:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NehH-K42Y38

Probably a symptom of Elizabethan England's seperation from the mystical body of Christ (i.e. the Catholic Church) making them all moody and morose. Shakespeare is expressing the national melancholy of alienation from the divine ground of being in Protestant England. There are similar sentiments of misery and nihilism in Drake's poetry.

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