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This is a 15 page paper that provides an overview of Lady Macbeth's soliloquy in I.v of Shakespeare's "Macbeth". The role of paradoxical language is analyzed for its thematic value. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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presumed ascendance to the throne of Scotland. The soliloquy itself, which occurs in lines 15 through 33, is a direct response to this letter. Lady Macbeth responds to Macbeths news
of the prophecy with skepticism leveled at his capacity to fulfill the prediction, charging that he is simply too kind a person to commit the kinds of dishonest and bloody
deeds that will be required to wrest the throne away from Duncan. Careful reading of the text reveals a number of hints as to the tragic outcome of Macbeths preoccupation
with the witches forecast. For instance, Macbeth asserts that the witches "have more in them than mortal knowledge"; a subtle use of wordplay that indicates not only the otherworldliness of
the witches power, but also carries the connotation of fatalness and lethality, as in "a mortal sin", or "a mortal blow" (I.v.3, "Mortal"). In other words, the letter which introduces
Lady Macbeths soliloquy establishes a tone of morbidity and death which contrasts Macbeths apparent excitement over his promised fate, allowing the soliloquy itself to convey the dark aspects of ambition
for the first time in the text. Once the soliloquy itself starts, Lady Macbeths intentions are immediately obvious. She opens by referred to her distant husband not by his
titular name, but by his holdings and titles of lordship: "Glamis thou art", she begins, indicating that for her, Macbeths lordship is the defining aspect of his identity, and suggesting
her own preoccupation with power and social mobility (I.v.15). This trend continues immediately, when she expands the definition of Macbeths identity to include his newly appointed title of thane of
"Cawdor" (I.v.15). This not only continues to emphasize Lady Macbeths reduction of Macbeth to his titles of nobility, but also establishes a link between the actual character named Cawdor, who
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