regicide the action of killing a king
the crime of betraying one’s country, esp. by
treason
attempting to overthrow the government
a particular goal or aim; something that a
ambition
person hopes to do or achieve
A soliloquy is an extended speech in which a
character alone on stage expresses his
soliloquy thoughts. At this time, the main character may
reveal the private emotions of the speaker or
may give information and display character.
The purpose of a soliloquy is to help the
audience understand the main character.
What is the purpose of a soliloquy?
Soliloquies often emphasize the main
character’s emotions.
repentance regret for any past action
thane (n) a feudal lord in Scotland
(n) a guess(v) suppose that something is true
surmise
without having evidence to confirm it
(n) something that foretells or foreshadows; a
harbinger
person or thing that announces
impede (vt) to hinder, to obstruct the progress of
surcease (vt & vi) to bring to an end, to stop; (n) an end
faculty (n) inherent power or ability to act
(n) a saying that sets forth a general truth;
adage
saying
mettle (n) courage, spirit; inherent quality of character
dire (adj) warning of terrible consequences; urgent
Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent
simile
under it. (I, v)
your face, my Thane, is as a book where menMay
simile
read strange matters. (I, v)
I have begun to plant thee, and will laborTo make
metaphor
thee full of growing
Why do you dress meIn borrowed robes? (I, iii) metaphor
If chance will have me King, why, chance may
personification
crown me, Without my stir (I, iii)
Was the hope drunkWherein you dressed
personification
yourself? Hath it slept since?
But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound
alliteration
in To saucy doubts and fears. (III, iv)
A little water clears us of this deed. (II, ii). symbol
Hover through the fog and filthy air. (I, i) symbol
“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player/That
personification
struts and frets his hour upon the stage.”
Fair is foul and fouls is fair. (I.i) paradox
Sleep no more!Macbeth does murder sleep’, the
innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravell’d repetition
sleeve of care
Is this a dagger which I see before me,The handle
toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.I have
thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not,
fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art soliloquy
thou butA dagger of the mind, a false
creation,Proceeding from the heat-oppressed
brain?
It is an extended speech in which a character soliloquy
alone on stage expresses his thoughts. At this
time, the main character may reveal the private
emotions of the speaker or may give information
and display character.
O full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife. metaphor
Fair is foul and foul is fair. foreshadowing
irony that occurs when the meaning of the
situation is understood by the audience but not dramatic irony
by the characters in the play
