MACBETH FINAL ACT
This from Macbeth, means that life is brief. In comparing life to an actor who "struts" for only an hour upon the stage and then "is heard no more,"
Macbeth is commenting on the fleeting nature of life. Macbeth then compares life to a story told by an "idiot," meaning that life has no more significance than an idiot's pointless rambling. Macbeth speaks these bleak words shortly after learning of his wife's death.
Lady Macbeth, who has been removed from the "Stage" of life and cannot participate in the remaining events of the play.