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How Do Macbeth’s Soliloquies Chart His Moral Degeneration?
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How Do Macbeth's Soliloquies Chart His Moral Degeneration? Shakespeare uses soliloquies to show us what is going on in the person's mind, their motives, thoughts and feelings. Macbeth's soliloquies show us that as the play goes on, his morals gradually degenerate, until the end when he is described as a "ruthless butcher". In this play I plan to explore how Macbeth's mind and morals degenerate throughout the play, by looking at three different soliloquies. In this soliloquy Macbeth asks himself two questions: If what the witches said was evil, how come two good things they have said come true? (He was Thane of Glamis and now he is Thane of Cawdor). If what the witches said was good how come his body reacts so violently to it? Like "horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs" this means to make his hair stand on end...
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