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Altering Lady Macbeth's Soliloquy of "Defeminization" |
Altering Lady Macbeth's Soliloquy of "Defeminization" Original Soliloquy Creative Piece The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood. Stop up th' access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between Th' effect and it. Come to my woman's breasts And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief. Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark To cry "Hold, hold!" The Messenger's utterance appears perplexing As he initiates my ponder on the doom of Duncan tonight In my fort, he will step in. Guide, good angel Supervise my moral introspections, remove my ambivalence here, And fill me from dome to toe With determination. Make my decision honorable. Don't let my conflict access nor pass, That distracts me from morality, which results in omitting my inner peace. Come to my humanity And take away my indecisiveness from the skull, good angel. Come, You protective diplomat, Wherever, amid your unseen essence, You bide, seeking serenity in nature's embrace. Come, the light of heaven, Engulf me with the vow of appropriacy, That the mind is no longer be pendulum, nor did the conflicting mind provoke me shouting "To be, or not to be". Explanation: This soliloquy of Lady Macbeth is written from Hamlet's ambivalent perspective. Therefore, this soliloquy shows conflicting thoughts about the particular situation of killing Duncan. Her negative feelings arise because she wants her husband, Macbeth, to become king. She believes that killing Duncan will implement the witches' prophecies about Macbeth becoming king. Lady Macbeth's ambition for power drives her to manipulate Macbeth into committing the murder. Conversely, positive thoughts arise because she knows that these actions are immoral. Macbeth is King Duncan's most trustworthy general. Furthermore, killing a guest and sleeping person who cannot defend himself is considered unfair. Due to inner conflict, she cannot reach an appropriate decision. Therefore, she is invoking the good spirit (alternatively "protective diplomat") to free her from this "to be or not to be" situation. |