Quotation Explosion - 'Life's but a walking shadow...' (Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5, Macbeth) — Transcript

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1. 0:01Clio longs to crave them from the NT
2. 0:03English director team I'm gonna we could
3. 0:05be talking through this quotation from
4. 0:07[Music]
5. 0:11the quotation comes immediately after
6. 0:13the Beth has been informed of the death
7. 0:15of Lady LaVette she should have died
8. 0:17Hereafter
9. 0:18in a manse it would have been time for
10. 0:20such a word now the metaphor he uses of
11. 0:23life as a walking shadow is one of a
12. 0:26string of images describing his view of
13. 0:28life at this point the peppy pace
14. 0:30stretching out until the last syllable
15. 0:32of recorded time the brief candle the
16. 0:34poor player the tale told by an idiot
17. 0:38[Music]
18. 0:40from a bad life seemed to signify
19. 0:42nothing a pointless journey to an
20. 0:45inevitable empty death even more
21. 0:48beauties present life his life as
22. 0:50superficial unreal lacking in substance
23. 0:54[Music]
24. 0:56rather than something real his life is a
25. 0:59shadow simply the dark indication of
26. 1:01where reality should be with walking
27. 1:03also conveying that sense of life
28. 1:05dragging on in the same predictable
29. 1:07direction more than that though a shadow
30. 1:12needs both light and a physical object
31. 1:14in order to exist who are Beth the life
32. 1:17he currently has also emphasizes
33. 1:19promotes the purity and light that he
34. 1:21rejected but also the substance the
35. 1:24reality of the life that he had an image
36. 1:29of the darkness is significant Benko
37. 1:32described the witches as being
38. 1:33instruments of Darkness
39. 1:35a contrast to Duncan's urge to plant and
40. 1:38grow or what witches offer is sterile
41. 1:41empty shallow corruptive had corrupted
42. 1:43it's dark and it's in the very next
43. 1:47scene that a vet asks the stars to hide
44. 1:49your fires so the light cannot see his
45. 1:52black and deep desires and it should be
46. 1:56no surprise the following Duncan's
47. 1:58monitor as Ross tells is an active scene
48. 2:00for darkness does the face of earth
49. 2:02enter
50. 2:03because dark night strangles the
51. 2:05traveling lamp later on in the play they
52. 2:10give a pair is so terrified the night
53. 2:12the she has liked by her continually
54. 2:14afraid of the darkness that at the
55. 2:16prompting of the witches that she and
56. 2:18her husband had caused and it should be
57. 2:23no surprise that having rejected the
58. 2:25light and killed the salsa de through
59. 2:27his murderer Duncan than was Beth
60. 2:29wifeless friendless hopeless godless his
61. 2:33reputation ruin his left wave left earth
62. 2:36the walking shadow that remains
63. 2:40[Music]