In the next line it says “tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow” meaning its another day in his life that would be dreadful and full of agony. When macbeth reads this he is referring to his meaningless life and that life is full of absurd and short events that become …show more content…
Shakespeare is trying to set a heavy suspenseful atmosphere and sets the tone for macbeth's speech of life (“tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.) In the last scene of macbeth he states “it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” this is a metaphor because it implies a hidden comparison between two things, when shakespeare talk through macbeth he is trying to imply that lives of humans are pointless. “ all our yesterday have lighted fools the way to susky death. Out, out brief candle.” he compares this quote to his wife's death. That her life ended a lot sooner than it should have, just like when the ‘brief candle’ slowly melts and then disappears because macbeth was slowly killing herself with the stress, guilt, and fear of all the deaths around