Wednesday, September 10, 2014

What does "Nothing is but what is not" mean in Act 1, Scene 3 of Macbeth?

I'm new to this, nothing, discussion and, doubtless, many others may have said something along the same lines as I'm about to. If so, please forgive.


We know that Mr Shakespeare was quite a witty chap and so might it not be that, in exercising his mind, he may have been wont to indulge in a little public philosophising, for his own gratification?


The concept of "nothing" surely occurs to us all as being ultimately absurd, when we think about it. Perhaps he was pointing out that; if we accept that "nothing" exists, even though, by definition, it can't. Indeed, it absolutely must not exist. If so, what exactly is that thing that we mean when we say "nothing"?


Or rather, what is it not?


A wee jape, possibly a mere musing, just to see if we are paying attention to, receptive to, the otherside of existence.


Could this be so?

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