“a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” is Macbeth’s approach to the meaning of life before inevitable death. As Shakespeare uses actors and a stage, what is your analogy for the meaningless of life?
I would say that my analogy would be a movie. The life of the characters in the movie doesn’t mean anything. They are not actual people, yet we get so attached to them. We are giddy in their triumphs, we cry in their losses, we feel their pain and sorrow, but they are not real. They are just actors on a screen and they’re not real. Everything they say, feel and do is scripted and done hundreds of times so the directors and producers can sift through them all and find the right one to put on screen. It’s not real, it means nothing. We love movies because they tell stories and take us on adventures and to places we only imagine, but those adventures don’t mean anything. Those stories are just stories. None of it is real. Not only that, but they don’t last forever. Everything has an inevitable end. Movies serve only to entertain us for a little while. They will always have an end. Just as life is short and will have an inevitable end. It means nothing. They’re the same.
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