Life's but a walking shadow — Transcript

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1. 0:00foreign
2. 0:01[Music]
3. 0:14and his enemies are approaching
4. 0:17he contemplates really here the purpose
5. 0:20of life before vying to fight on to the
6. 0:23death in their brutal and violent way
7. 0:26that he knows best so let's have a
8. 0:28little look at this then we've got life
9. 0:30is better walking Shadow simple short
10. 0:32quote here he's comparing his position
11. 0:34to that of really being a ghost in my
12. 0:36opinion a shadow life has lost its
13. 0:38meaning for him
14. 0:39um but he could also be realizing that
15. 0:41his own death approaches it's wise
16. 0:42concerning himself to a shadow a ghost
17. 0:44he's not a real man anymore he's a you
18. 0:47know a dead man walking to put the
19. 0:48cliche there so for him Life Is Lost
20. 0:52meaning and we could also say perhaps at
21. 0:54this point the fact he's describing life
22. 0:55is like a walking Shadow himself as a
23. 0:57walking Shadow is because he sees his
24. 0:59own death approaching
25. 1:01and a word that you could use to
26. 1:03describe Macbeth here is a nihilist
27. 1:05nihilism is a belief that life has no
28. 1:09purpose or meaning someone who's a
29. 1:11nihilist believes that really the
30. 1:12purpose of life is nothing there's
31. 1:14another purpose in life I know we all
32. 1:16feel like that sometimes
33. 1:17um but that's what nihilism is so we
34. 1:19could say Macbeth here is a nihilist he
35. 1:21rejects the purpose of life and again if
36. 1:23we if we zoom in just on this word
37. 1:25shadow shadow is a symbol of darkness
38. 1:27evil death all the things really that
39. 1:29represent Macbeth at this stage of the
40. 1:32play so really good line that you can
41. 1:34talk about a lot in even if it is just
42. 1:36only a few words long and you can see
43. 1:38there in the link quotation box lots of
44. 1:40other link quotations so the nihilistic
45. 1:43nature of Macbeth at this point in the
46. 1:45play