Context:
Shakespeare chooses to deal in the lives of the powerful: rulers and kings. So in the tragedies we feel moved by circumstances greater and nobler than our own. But we are also encouraged to identify with the personal details of these people's lives and share their humanity. When Macbeth talks about being stuck with the situation he's created or the pointlessness of life, we don't have to be murderers to understand the feeling of going nowhere, of having to get through day after day with no way back. |
