What is the source of the allusion in the sentence below?
After a long second half full of sound and fury, the soccer game concluded in a tie.
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An allusion is a brief mention of something or someone well known, often from mythology, history, or literature. An allusion lets you reference ideas from an entire story in just a few words.
The protean nature of the disease makes it difficult to diagnose.
The word protean is an allusion to the sea god Proteus in Greek mythology. Because the sea is constantly changing, to describe something as protean suggests that it is variable or in flux.
The source of the allusion sound and fury is Shakespeare.
In Shakespeare's Macbeth, when Macbeth learns that his wife has died, he laments in his grief that life is nothing more than a "meaningless tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury."
The allusion sound and fury means activity that amounts to nothing.