Who Was Responsible For Macbeth's Death

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Corazon Aquino once said, “I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.” There are two types of people in the world, pessimists and optimists, but we discover that towards the end of the play, Macbeth is pessimistic. Well, he has killed a number of people that I can count on one of my hands, but he wasn’t always like this. In fact, in the beginning of the play, he was very optimistic that he would be king after becoming the Thane of Cawdor. Also, as the story progressed more and more, he was very certain that he could just kill anyone he wants as so long as he was king. Although, his attitude would shift back and forth, depending on the situation that he was in. For instance, after he went to go visit the witches a second time was told that no man born of woman can hurt him, he was so confident that nothing will harm him. …show more content…
He says in lines 19 to lines 23, “To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time, and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!” In these lines he basically said that life is too short, and that he didn’t live a full life. Macbeth is to that point where he knows he’s about to pay for his actions, and begins to reflect what he has done with his life. He got what he wanted, but lost what he had; mainly, he got all of the power what he wanted, but would eventually lose his wife. In the 23rd line he says, “The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle,” he basically that life is like a candle. Normally candles don’t last that very long, even the big ones don’t last more than a couple days. When he uses the word “dusty”, he means that he wasted his days like how dust collects on objects. Life is meaningless if not lived well enough. This is pretty depressing, but then the next few lines get a little