Lady Macbeth's Soliloquy

In the dramatic play of, “ The Tragedy of Macbeth,” written by William Shakespeare, the tragedy is set around the 11th Century, in Scotland and England, where a young nobleman, named Macbeth, is foreshadowed to be a king, and soon becomes a reality by going on a hunt for power and control in his kingdom. Shakespeare creates the play using various forms of literary elements, which benefit in impacting the reader with the theme of the play. Many forms that are used throughout the play include, foreshadowing, dramatic irony, and Macbeth’s aside’s and soliloquys that are spoken through his fateful journey for king.

Taking a look into Macbeth’s dagger soliloquy, the main aspect of Macbeth’s soliloquy is debating whether he should kill King Duncan or not. Macbeth has certain pressures, such as his wife, and his friendship with Duncan. Looking further into the soliloquy, imagery, rhetorical questions, and repetition are the strongest uses of rhetoric in the soliloquy. Imagery opens up the readers' minds to truly understand the passage read before them. In Macbeth’s soliloquy in Act II, the passage starts with “Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?

The book The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare is about a young nobleman from a village who is told a prophecy by three witches that he will one day become the king of Scotland. As a person who is known for his honesty and bravery, he is unsure about what to do about the prophecy but his wife, Lady Macbeth, had other plans in mind and decided that the only way for him to become king would be too murder King Duncan. Lady Macbeth’s thirst for power leads her to tempt her husband into committing the crime. After the deed is done, Lady Macbeth becomes engulfed with guilt. Throughout this journey, Lady Macbeth's life changes as her thirst for power consumes her morals and corrupts her soul with guilt.

The play Macbeth was loosely based on a real king. In Macbeth, the main character, Macbeth is given a prophecy that he will be crowned King. Because of this proclamation, Lady Macbeth encourages Macbeth to quicken the process and just kill King Duncan. Lady Macbeth quickly corrupts Macbeth’s nature with this scheme. Different scenes in Macbeth also illustrate evil effortlessly tainting human nature, similar to when Macbeth orders Banquo’s and Banquo kid’s deaths because Banquo became suspicious and Fleance was supposedly the heir to the throne.

At the same time, Macbeth’s fear that “[w]e still have judgement here, that we but teach / Bloody instructions which, being taught, return / To plague th’inventor,” foreshadows the way that his deeds will eventually come back to haunt him. The imagery in this speech is dark—we hear of “bloody instructions,” “deep damnation,” and a “poisoned chalice”—and suggests that Macbeth is aware of how the murder would open the door to a dark and sinful world. At the same time, he admits that his only reason for committing murder, “ambition,” suddenly seems an insufficient justification for the act. The destruction that comes from unchecked ambition will continue to be explored as one of the play’s themes. As the soliloquy ends, Macbeth seems to resolve not to kill Duncan, but this resolve will only last until his wife returns and once again convinces him, by the strength of her will, to go ahead with their plot.

This brief soliloquy, spoken by Macbeth, comes at a time right after he has received news that Lady Macbeth has committed suicide after finally falling to her guilt of her involvement in Duncan’s murder. Macbeth also learned at the same time that Macduff and other Scottish armies are marching towards upheaval of his reign on the throne. After initial doubts to the witches’ newest prophesies for his future, Macbeth’s character shows to the audience that he realizes what they say is coming true. The stress of the surrounding armies and impending doom is shown when he states that the candle is brief, thus his time remaining as king are short and likely soon to be dark, such as a blown out candle. He also compares his life and what potentially

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In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the character Macbeth holds a soliloquy in which he speaks about his current situation and his hesitation to execute the slaying of the king. Macbeth speculates whether or not his situation is real when seeing a “dagger of mind, a false creation” (2.1.50). He envisions a false dagger because he may crave an effortless way to find a dagger, or he may be incessantly be thinking about weapons because of his high stress-level. He continues to ask himself if his visions are real and wonders“I see thee yet, in form as palpable” (2.1.52). Macbeth’s unease is so intense that he does not know if he is touching the dagger or if it is a figment of his imagination. Alternately, he may wish what he sees is false because he knows his appalling actions will be irreversible and already he regrets his action before enacting it. Or, as mentioned earlier, he may yearn for a smooth way to do eliminate the king, thus his brain presents a false dagger with no trace of previous use. Consequently, he discloses he sees “gouts of blood/Which was not so before.”(2.1.58-59). This could either be an extension of his bad hallucination or it could be him, contemplating about the dagger further and imagining the gore of his killing. If it is an extension of his hallucination, then Macbeth could become more fearful of his future as he imagines the conclusion of his insane planned event. But, if it is him seeing the gore, that may symbolize that he is balking the homicide knowing

A writer named Frank Herbert once said: “Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually they lose touch with reality… and fall”. King Duncan is the King of Scotland who is very loved, but is murdered in his sleep. Macbeth is a power-hungry thane of Scotland who wants to be king and, eventually, has no problem if blood is shed in order to obtain or keep his power. Lady Macbeth convinces her husband to kill the king, not realizing what effect this will really have on Macbeth and herself in the long run.

In Soliloquy one Lady Macbeth’s reaction to the letter is revealed and so is her malicious character, and her thoughts about Macbeth. When Lady Macbeth reads the letter and finds out her husband could be king and there is nothing she wants more than to be queen. She understands that Macbeth is too kind to go through with the assassination so she wants to persuade him. Furthermore, when Lady Macbeth is speaking her thoughts aloud , she says “Thou’ldst have, great Glamis, That which cries, ‘Thus thou must do, if thou have it; And that wishest should be undone.’” ( ) This implies that Lady Macbeth has vile character and she only wants Macbeth to kill the King so that she may become a powerful queen. She wants Macbeth to take charge but she

The play ‘Macbeth’ uses soliloquies with great effect to express the thoughts of individual characters, particularly in the case of the protagonist, Macbeth. In Act V Scene V, strong words from Macbeth convey to the reader two themes of the play.  This soliloquy demonstrates the play's use of irony and the use of the disparity between the great opposition of light and darkness as symbols for both life and death.  This soliloquy is quite significant to the play as a whole since it demonstrates two very important themes as well as leading to a better understanding of Macbeth.

I am writing my monologue from Macbeth’s point of view as his death was abrupt and I wish to express his emotions post-murder. The harangue will take place in Macbeth’s castle as he was killed in front of it and is now seemingly haunting the castle. During Shakespearian times people believed in ghosts, witches, and magic and I desire to continue this assumption. It is set several years after the end of the novel, during this period Macbeth is neither dead nor living and is asking to be cast to death. Macbeth is an appropriate character to write my monologue on as he is a conflicting character. During my monologue he it trapped between life and death as a punishment for his cruel deeds by the witches, and is begging them to clear him of his

In these lines, Shakespeare’s use of two different tones makes it clear to the reader that Macbeth is experiencing internal conflict. One side of Macbeth is saying that he should kill the King while the other side of him is saying no. “This supernatural soliciting /Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill,/ Why hath it given me earnest of success,/ Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor./ If good, why do I yield to that suggestion/ Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair/ And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,/ Against the use of nature?” (Act 1 Scene 3) At this point, Macbeth doesn’t know if the intentions of the witches are to produce evil or if their predictions are a sign of positive things to come for Macbeth. Later on, Macbeth states what he knows is true in the moment. When the witches predicted that he would become the Thane of Cawdor, this prediction was accurate. Because of this, Macbeth feels that if the witches were truthful about one prediction, then it would show that they would be correct about the rest of their statements. In this speech, Shakespeare does such a fine job of creating two different sides of this character. One simple decision can either make or break the rest of Macbeth’s life and that is extremely suspenseful for a reader to witness

“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow / creeps in this petty pace from day to day.” These are words I reflect upon during this terrible time of anguish and grief. We gather here in sombre circumstances; the loss of an honourable wife, queen and woman that has added another casualty in nature’s bloody rampage. Tragically, over these past few months we have seen the deterioration of a great woman whose conscious ran deep, deeper than many here would have truly suspected.

Lady Macbeth and Macbeth were motivated by ambition and greed for royalty and greatness, and this was the main cause for committing the murder ( their unchecked ambition and temptations). They both also think that all was pointless (murder) after they experience guilt and after macbeth finds out that he is crowned without honor and that he will never be of the same lineage of the king. At first his conscience starts to stop him from his sinful act ( the daggers imagination ) and later he starts regretting it. ( the ghosts at the feast ) And “sleep no more”. As a starting point in comparing Lady Macbeth and Macbeth, look closely at macbeth's soliloquy in Act 1. Vii.