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Monologues
Hamlet's "To be or not to be" - what was his dilemma, then?
Macbeth's "Life's but a walking shadow"
Soliloquy in act 5, scene 5, of William Shakespeare's play entitled Macbeth.
| 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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This quote or idea was William Faulkner's inspiration for the title of a novel of his, The Sound and the Fury, an amazing story of which there is a movie version with Yul Bryner.
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