Macbeth Soliloquy Essay

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(An analysis of the Tomorrow Soliloquy in Macbeth) Throughout history books and movies have used famous heros who always do the right thing to teach people lessons. Batman, Spiderman, and Superman are all impeccable examples of childhood heros that are looked up to by not only children but adults as well. Shakespeare used a very evil man to teach lessons throughout Macbeth. He uses different soliloquies, or scenes of a play where a character explains their thoughts and feelings, to teach lessons through characters. Biographer Phil Wright explained, “some of the most famous literary devices also come from William Shakespeare.” Shakespeare was one the first writers to introduce a soliloquy. The most famous soliloquy in Macbeth is the tomorrow soliloquy spoken by Macbeth himself. Throughout the Tomorrow Soliloquy in Macbeth, Shakespeare brings up the …show more content…

Throughout the entire play the character Macbeth makes decisions that he thinks will bring him great joy and power. The choices he makes leads to him losing everything he once had and ultimately resulting in his death. In the soliloquy Macbeth gives just prior to his death he explains, “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,”(act 5 scene 5 lines 19-20). Shakespeare is attempting to explain that each day a person lives is for and means nothing. Each little thing a person does is dull, boring, and doesn’t really mean anything in the long run. Shakespeare uses Macbeth, who is a very evil man to explain the way many people feel about their lives. A blogger Tana Dalhousie wrote, “to be bored with existence is surely to reject every element in the known universe.” This means that a person cannot possibly run out of knew things to do. The world is full of knew and exciting things, a person just has to go out and search for

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