Lady Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Order Description
Choose one of the three pairs of soliloquies provided below (see the next page for options). Your task is to (a) analyze the language of the soliloquies and (b)
in" rel="nofollow">incorporate three critical sources that discuss the themes in" rel="nofollow">in those soliloquies.
Option One Lady Macbeth
Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' th' milk of human kin" rel="nofollow">indness To catch the nearest way: thou
wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And
yet wouldst wrongly win" rel="nofollow">in. Thou'dst have, great Glamis, That which cries, “Thus thou must do,” if thou have it, And that which rather thou dost fear to do, Than wishest
should be undone. Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in" rel="nofollow">in thin" rel="nofollow">ine ear And chastise with the valor of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which
fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crowned withal.
(I.v.11-25 – page 37 in" rel="nofollow">in the book) And Lady Macbeth
The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me
from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood. Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitin" rel="nofollow">ings of nature Shake my
fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murd'rin" rel="nofollow">ing min" rel="nofollow">inisters, Wherever in" rel="nofollow">in your sightless
substances You wait on nature’s mischief. Come, thick night, And pall thee in" rel="nofollow">in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep
through the blanket of the dark To cry “Hold, hold!” (I.v.34-49 – pgs. 37-38 in" rel="nofollow">in the book)