4.5
«I am in blood
Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o’er.»

I’m so happy I finally read «Macbeth», my first of Shakespeare’s tragedies! It doesn’t come as a huge surprise that it is my favorite play of his so far. Gotta love the drama, the guilt, the creepy witches, and the bloodshed. I was intrigued from the very beginning and became an excited and aghast witness to Macbeth’s descent into tyranny and paranoia. His entire future is sacrificed in exchange for a brutal and haunting present.

Since it was «Tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow» by Gabrielle Zevin that finally pushed me to read this, I obviously have to include the iconic quote to go with it:

«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.»

No one can describe the futility of life like Shakeyboy can