LADY MACBETH SOLILOQUY

Lady Macbeth, while speaking her soliloquy, brings such thing as an evil liquid into context many times. When Lady Macbeth is speaking to the Witches or the “murdering ministers” in her soliloquy, she says ” That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty!”. She is asking the evil spirits around her to strip her of being a lady, as women in that time were not meant to have an evil bone in their body and to fill her head with evil as her main intention is to get the job done as she believes that Macbeth cannot.

MACBETH SOLILOQUY

In the first scene of Act 2, Macbeth performs a soliloquy and in which, a number of times, personification is displayed. In his soliloquy, Macbeth talks of a dagger that he can not see, he states “Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, yet I see thee still.” Here he is saying to this imaginary dagger, “come, let me hold you. I don’t have you, but I still see you”. Macbeth is sort of characterising the dagger by calling it “you” whereas a normal inanimate object would be described as “it”. Shakespeare has made Macbeth say this so the audience or the reader can get a sense that this “dagger” is not normal.