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    The Opera House, Repeating Cycles, Etc. (Spoilers Maybe)

    The following soliloquy from MacBeth makes me think of a lot that's been going on this season. "This has all happened before and will happen again", Roslin's vision of the opera house and its significance, and perhaps her death since this is the soliloquy MacBeth gives after Lady MacBeth commits suicide. Anyone else see any parallels?

    Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
    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 no more. It is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.

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    lol i did MacBeth in Year 11 here in Aus and really enjoyed acting it out in class haha. Soory though, I can't really see wat your talking about, then again i'm not a massive shakesperian fan so i could be missing something...
    Meh.

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      Originally posted by Arturis View Post
      The following soliloquy from MacBeth makes me think of a lot that's been going on this season. "This has all happened before and will happen again", Roslin's vision of the opera house and its significance, and perhaps her death since this is the soliloquy MacBeth gives after Lady MacBeth commits suicide. Anyone else see any parallels?

      Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
      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 no more. It is a tale
      Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
      Signifying nothing.
      I have yet to watch this episode, but being a Renaissance lit scholar I'll keep my mind open to it. It's very common to make literary references to Shakespeare because a. people pick it up and b. it's universal. I love that phrase "dusty death"; it's not as good "death, thou shalt die" but it's certainly up there.

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