LIFE'S BRIEF CANDLE
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!
Life's but a walking shadow,a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
and then is heard of no more;it is a tale
Told by an idiot,full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
According to the character, everything in our lives, everything about everyone, is essentially meaningless because it all eventually ends. The character believes anything he does, anything you do, anything anyone has ever done is lost in time once they die. And so it seems that life is just a waiting game, like a death sentence. Because of this he proclaims "Out, out, brief candle!". This might lead one to believe that if his life amounts to nothing, if all he think he is doing is waiting to die, then why wait at all?
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!
Life's but a walking shadow,a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
and then is heard of no more;it is a tale
Told by an idiot,full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
According to the character, everything in our lives, everything about everyone, is essentially meaningless because it all eventually ends. The character believes anything he does, anything you do, anything anyone has ever done is lost in time once they die. And so it seems that life is just a waiting game, like a death sentence. Because of this he proclaims "Out, out, brief candle!". This might lead one to believe that if his life amounts to nothing, if all he think he is doing is waiting to die, then why wait at all?
