Macbeth
Macbeth is known as one of Shakespeare’s four great tragedies. This play is one of his best known and most widely recognized, as well as one of the shortest and most intense. In this play there are many famous and inspiring soliloquies (speeches of one’s thoughts). Lady Macbeth makes many of these. In Act I, Scene 5, Lady Macbeth receives a letter from Lord Macbeth and the scene opens with her reading it. After finishing, she speaks with the messenger, and is then left alone with her own thoughts to pray her famous “unsex me here…” prayer. This prayer is the first soliloquy she makes and is one of the most important in understanding who Lady Macbeth really is.In her prayer Lady Macbeth states that the messenger’s hoarse voice reminder her of the raven that “croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan” (1.5.35). She is praying to th
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Approximate Word count = 563
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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