A Tale

... A tale told by and idiot 
Macbeth V:v

Yes, for Macbeth surely it must seem.  Witches had prophesied.  Or had theyt?  Instead may one not say that they instead read the depths of Maribeth's ambition.  Did he, Macbeth allow himself to even  acknowledge on a conscious level this ambition.  The ambition to rise in power.  The ambition for kingship.  

But, at this point in act five scene five when Macbeth pronounces on life, he has followed the trail of his ambition to it's end.  Given that all has turned upside down from where Macbeth thought he would have it one can see his point.   But, one might also see The playwrights point.  That the vanity of this world fades and does so fast.   It leaves us with the taste of ashes in the mouth.   

We have those stolid time honored sources of wisdom as guides.  They warn us away from ambition for vanity.  They tell us that life may have no meaning or purpose.  But, that, if that be so, it then falls to us to crate our own and do so wisely.