... both the play Macbeth by Shakespeare and the poem "Stop All the Clocks" by W. H. Auden a certain attitude is conveyed about the death of a loved one. In Macbeth by Shakespeare the character Macbeth is faced with the death of his wife and has a very dark and depressing attitude about it. In his soliloquy he says "...and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, ... signifying nothing." showing how his anger towards life and how it can end so suddenly and without warning. Macbeth also ... personifies life in this soliloquy, saying that "Life's but a wal...

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