Comments on: ‘Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow’ Soliloquy Analysis

By: Ranjana Mallick

Ranjana Mallick — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 18:04:49 +0000

Interested in the story mirror

By: Simon Hilyer

Simon Hilyer — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 18:00:59 +0000

Macbeth is contemplating his navel. He would have thought differently if he had had children. Shakespeare conveniently and cleverly prevents any offsprings from muddying Macbeth’s final take on life.

By: Gabriel Payne

Gabriel Payne — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 09:57:18 +0000

It’s about life on a loop, pause, play, rewind…spoken in a time of despair, written to immortalise same…

By: N P Bajaj

N P Bajaj — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 07:56:49 +0000

Repetition of the word TOMORROW three times in slow langour, coveys the monotony and the sameness of life as conceived by Macbeth in his present landscape of mind. Even after pursuing a life of ambition, envy, greed, fear and treachery he should be finding life eventful if not anything else, but his sordid realisation that ultimately all wild rivers and streams become calm and lose their identity as at the end they merge into sea, makes him philosophical to recite the futility of Tomorrow. It is a Tomorrow without any hope. This Tomorrow has no future.

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 22:01:19 +0000

I am sure that great art can be interpreted in many ways ( by definition)
But although Macbeth is in a dark place, I don’t see the actual realisation that our dreams and schemes are just that-as depressing. As humans we have the amazing capacity to create grand illusions and weave wonderful stories about our life and it’s meaning.
However as somebody once said “man is an animal trapped in a web of concepts he himself has spun”.
I therefore find the passage beautiful and ‘liberating’ rather than heavy and oppressive. Although I understand that might not be how many others react.

By: James Young

James Young — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 14:12:05 +0000

The emptiness that Macbeth found at the bottom of his vaulting ambition awaits any and all of the rest of us who pursue the traditional goals of wealth and power in the expectation they will satiate a deeper quest for meaning. They don’t.

By: Rob Willett

Rob Willett — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 23:30:51 +0000

Could it be about the condition of the restless human mind always looking for the next thing. The mind that runs the life, in the drivers seat all the time and like a hamster on a wheel never getting anywhere?
Always under the illusion that certain things and conditions need to be met before you find what you want. Whilst all the time joy and contentment are within.

By: Scooter Crone

Scooter Crone — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:08:13 +0000

The idiot is the dramatist watching His play on the stage from high above. We are all just players for His amusement. Most bow to Him. Some give Him the finger.

By: G. Thomas

G. Thomas — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 14:36:36 +0000

this is surely the moment when Macbeth realises that the prophesies on which, encouraged by his wife, he has gambled everything were false. When he hears that his wife is dead he mutters “she should have died hereafter” (he could have added “if the story was true”) – but she didn’t and so what is the truth he is having to face up to? he pauses as the realisation sinks in and then starts his depressed speech in which he recognises that he is about to lose …the time before him will drag out interminably and it is all a waste of time …he is just another fool who got it all wrong

this is the great turning point in the play and goes to the heart of what it was all about

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 17:48:57 +0000

Thank you for your contribution. I’d phrase the last bit more like this: “life ‘is’ just an illusion, a bad actor that nervously goes thorugh his/her lines and fades into the background, it’s a story, told by an idiot, full of emotion, but utterly meaningless.”

Only substantive change to your text is using the present tense “is”, as McB is talking about the concept (the meaning iof life, etc.) and not a noun (Lady McB’s life).