But in these cases/We still have judgement here.../This even-handed justice/Commends th’ ingredience of our poisoned chalice/To our own lips.../I have no spur/To prick the sides of my intent, but only/Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself/And falls on th’ other” (Shakespeare 1.7.1-28). This paricular soliloquy shows Macbeth’s motivation to murder and his decision process, however there is another of Macbeth’s more famous soliloquies later in the play which has a completely different tone. Right after Seyton tells Macbeth of his wife’s death, he says somberly, “She sholud have died hereafter./There would have been a time for such a word./Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow/Creeps in the petty pace from day to day/To the …show more content…
This is proven in her sleep when she mutters, “Out, damned spot, out, I say! One. Two./Why then, ‘tis time to do ‘it. Hell is murky. Fie, my/lord, fie, a soldier and afeard? What need we fear/who knows it, when none can call our power to/account? Yet who would habe thought the old man/to have had so much blood in him?/...What, will these hands ne’er be clean? No/more o’ that, my lord, no more o’ that. You mar all/with this starting.../Here’s the smell of blood still. All/the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.../To bed, to bed. There’s knocking at the/gate. Come, come, come, come. Give me your/hand. What’s done cannot be undone. To bed, to/bed, to bed” (Shakespeare 5.2.37-72). Her soliloquy presents her guilt to the audience, whereas her earlier dialogue would lead readers to believe that her character was persuasive, manipulative, and callous to