Macbeth Soliloquy

Macbeths Soliloquy In Macbeths monologue Shakespe be uses many another(prenominal) rhetorical devices to flesh out Macbeths change in stead about scratch offing Duncan. 2 of the main rhetorical devices used in the soliloquy are rhetorical questions and allusions to Hecate and Tarquin. These two devices help Shakespeare depict the change in Macbeths attitude about fine-tuneing Duncan and as well as represent his determination to kill Duncan. Macbeths rhetorical questions share his lack of clarity and conviction to kill Duncan slice the allusions represent his decision forming and becoming clear to him.At the beginning of Macbeths soliloquy Shakespeare uses rhetorical questions to represent Macbeths feelings about killing Duncan. In the outset s as yet lines we expect three rhetorical questions. These questions lead into the conversation Macbeth has with himself to determine if he will kill Duncan. At the beginning of the soliloquy he seems unsure if he actually wants to g o through with the plan. This uncertainty is be by his uncertainty of the daggers existence. The first question he asks is whether or not he actually sees a dagger in front of him.It is a simple question but leads us into the others. The secondment question he asks is if the dagger was sent by a calamitous vision (II. i. 35). Here, the word fatal acts as a double entendre. pitch-dark can either mean someones destiny or it can mean a diabolically action and in this cuticle it works with two definitions. Macbeth wonders if it is his fate to kill Duncan with the dagger and the dagger is the deadly weapon that will be used to kill Duncan later on in the assume. The final question Macbeth asks himself is whether this dagger is real or not and if it is formed by his heat-oppressed brain (II. i. 38).The fact that he does not even know if he really sees a dagger or not makes it clear to the audience that he is going crazy over the suasion of killing Duncan. When Macbeth asks himsel f this question he is wondering whether he really wants to kill Duncan or if he is just caught in the moment. Later in the soliloquy he even says his eyes are madefools (II. i. 43) and that it is the bloody headache which informs/ the dagger to his eyes (II. i. 47-48). Since the dagger is not real we know Shakespeare is telling us that Macbeth is thin queer about killing Duncan but is still too scared to actually do it.As the soliloquy progresses, and so does his idea of killing Duncan, he starts talk of the town about more than concrete ideas, such as witchcraft, and this represents his outgrowth desire to kill Duncan. In the second half of the soliloquy Macbeth in the long run decides to kill Duncan. When Macbeth says now oer the one half-world (II. i. 48) he is talking about the time when people are asleep, or nighttime. While he does this he alludes to two famous and immoral people, the goddess Hecate and the Roman King Tarquin. At the time when Shakespeare was alive the au dience knew who Shakespeare was referring when Macbeth said the names Tarquin and Hecate.This simple society would allow the audience to understand where Macbeths decision would go and why he finally came to that decision. Shakespeare draws many parallels betwixt Macbeth and these two people. Shakespeare alludes to Hecate because she was the goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, the moon, ghosts, and necromancy. All of these things are affiliated with evil and when Macbeth says that witchcraft fetes/Pale Hecates offering (II. i. 50-51) he is arduous to persuade himself that even though she is the goddess of these evil things, people still celebrate her and something good may come from killing Duncan.Shakespeare draws a parallel between Hecate and Macbeth because Macbeth finally decides he will kill Duncan after the bell rings in the same way Hecates ritual sacrifices were summoned by the eats howl. Shakespeare also connects Macbeth to Tarquin in a similar way. Tarquin became the King of capital of Italy by killing King Tullius. After Tarquin became the King of Rome he started a reign of terror. Besides killing King Tullius, Tarquin put many senators to death, his son raped a woman named Lucretia and eventually the Tarquin family was banished from Italy.By connecting Tarquin to Macbeth Shakespeare wants to show that they both knew what they were doing before committing the crime and chose to do it anyway. Also, Shakespeare is showing Macbeths change from an impoverished man to a ruthless king whether Macbeth wants that or not and we see this later on in the play when Macbeth orders men to kill Banquo and his son, Fleance in fear that they may try to overthrow him. Shakespeare ends the soliloquy by expression that the words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives (II. i. 60). By ending the soliloquy with this statement shows the change in Macbeths decision to kill Duncan and become king.The reason why Shakespeare included the soliloquy into the play is to show the audience how Macbeth finally comes to the decision to kill Duncan. Through the rhetorical devices used in the soliloquy Shakespeare is able to give the audience perspicacity on how Macbeth goes from a guiltless man with no gall to a cold blood killer. We know by the end of it Macbeth has decided to kill Duncan and when the bell rings he goes to Duncans room to complete the job. We also know that later on he sends men to kill more people in order to keep his position as king and it is much easier for him to make that decision.