The speech
.The speech I performed clearly shows that Macbeth is feeling hopeless and believes life has no real purpose. This is most obvious when he says, “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage.” In this line, Macbeth compares life to an actor in a play—someone who shows off and makes noise but doesn’t matter in the end. He thinks that life is short and has no meaning beyond the moment. He then says, “It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Here, Macbeth shows that he believes life is just a silly story told by someone who doesn’t know what they’re saying. Verily, in particular, the world Macbeth now sees is one where time moves slowly and all things end in death. He feels that time just drags on for no reason, leading everyone to the same sad end. This shows that Macbeth no longer has hope or sees value in anything—not power, love, or even the future. Another line that highlights Macbeth’s despair is, “O...