Macbeth Soliloquy Analysis
Even in the coolest breeze your body will turn to a ferocious sweat, your face starts burning an inferno red yet looks a ghastly white, your heart may skip a few hundred beats and you begin to feel it in your throat, the pounding intensifies with every step you take and your feet feel cemented to the ground, unable to blink, turn back and erase what you have done, everything from this point on is a downward spiral and it is too late to undo your actions, the word regret haunts you eternally. In the soliloquy, found in Act I, scene vii of Shakespeare's Macbeth servants can be found scurrying inside the castle to prepare the table for the evening's feast with the King while Macbeth, Shakespeare's title character, hesitantly paces debating the
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Macbeth uses spiritual reasoning against the murder. He claims that heaven will cry out "trumpet-tongued" against the deep damnation of his "taking off." This indicates that Macbeth believes that such a horrifying deed would result in him "jumping the life to come," that he would face punishment for eternity in hell. Macbeth also talks about a chalice. Churches would have used a chalice during the Holy Communion service, which emphasizes images of light, love and good. However, Macbeth talks about a "poisoned chalice," which leads to the opposite connotations: death as opposed to life, darkness as compared to light, evil instead of good. Macbeth shows that he still has a conscience through the way he delivers this soliloquy. His use of euphemisms shows his anguish at the thought of murder. The derogatory diction Macbeth distinctively uses like "bloody instructions", "deep damnation" and "poisoned chalice" throughout the soliloquy is dark; suggesting Macbeth is aware that his murder would open doors to a dark and sinful world. Macbeth's fear that "[w]e still have judgment 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 because by committing violent crimes we only teach others to commit violence as
Macbeth uses spiritual reasoning against the murder. He claims that heaven will cry out "trumpet-tongued" against the deep damnation of his "taking off." This indicates that Macbeth believes that such a horrifying deed would result in him "jumping the life to come," that he would face punishment for eternity in hell. Macbeth also talks about a chalice. Churches would have used a chalice during the Holy Communion service, which emphasizes images of light, love and good. However, Macbeth talks about a "poisoned chalice," which leads to the opposite connotations: death as opposed to life, darkness as compared to light, evil instead of good. Macbeth shows that he still has a conscience through the way he delivers this soliloquy. His use of euphemisms shows his anguish at the thought of murder. The derogatory diction Macbeth distinctively uses like "bloody instructions", "deep damnation" and "poisoned chalice" throughout the soliloquy is dark; suggesting Macbeth is aware that his murder would open doors to a dark and sinful world. Macbeth's fear that "[w]e still have judgment 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 because by committing violent crimes we only teach others to commit violence as