Macbeth's Soliloquy Act 5 Scene 5

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“In Analysis: The Significance of Macbeth’s Soliloquy in Act Five Scene Five”

“Hang out our banners on the outward walls. The cry is still ‘They Come!’ Our castle’s strength will laugh a siege to scorn. Here let them lie till famine and the ague eat them up.” (Page 408 Lines 1-4). Act five scene five is the downfall of Macbeth. Macbeth has just learned that Lady Macbeth has died and he is full of regret. This is when he gives his famous tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow soliloquy. William Alfred Quayle stated, “Speech is thinking aloud. Soliloquy is thinking aloud to one's self. A monologue, such as was a conversation or lecture of Coleridge, is nothing other than a soliloquy. When a soul is absorbed in itself and its concerns,
According to Maurice Charney, “We are made to feel that Macbeth’s sensibility has been dulled during the course of the play, that a great deal of time has passed, and that he is now an old man waiting to die. That is why he seems to be wearily indifferent to his wife’s death.” This proves that Macbeth’s emotions and feelings are no longer there. On page 408 and 409 lines 9-14 Macbeth says,” I have almost forgot the taste of fears: the time has been, my senses would have cooled to hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in’t. I have supped full with horrors. Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me.” In the first part Macbeth admits that he is now incapable of feelings. The second part Macbeth says he has been have slaughterous thoughts and he can’t stop them, nor does he want to. Macbeth is now numb to violence and violence thoughts. Macbeth uses word pictures as
According to Tara E. Lynn, “In the satisfyingly gut wrenching ending of Shakespeare's Macbeth, Macduff carries the titled villain's head onto the stage. Of late, several American productions have "enhanced" the Folio stage directions by having Macduff subsequently toss the head across the stage in disdain. During this maneuver, it is customary to use a burlap sack filled with all manner of materials (small watermelons and tomatoes are favorites) as the prop. Some audiences have come to expect the thud-splat of Macbeth's head as part of their catharsis, allowing us to share Macduff's triumphant revenge and reminding us of the fact that overreaching arch-villains do not, in fact, always succeed.” Lynn explains the ending of Macbeth very well. Malcolm, on of Duncan, becomes king and all the citizens say on page 413, “Hail, King of