Lord and Lady Macbeth

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This paper examines how in order to help us better understand and appreciate the mindset of Macbeth and his wife, pending and throughout their degeneration of morals, Shakespeare effectively employs techniques such as religious allusion, tragic irony, layered imagery and equivocation, as well as simpler methods such as tone and disposition to present and justify the protagonist and his spouse. Bearing in mind that the genre is a play, Shakespeare also uses many of his more signature methods such as the soliloquy and that of provocative sub-themes to amplify the dramatic effect of his work.

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"Many of the key scenes of the play use another literary device of Shakespeare's, which is probably the most defining characteristic of all his works, that of the soliloquy. Soliloquies provide audiences with a superb opportunity to create or define their opinions of characters, as the character on stage is effectively talking to himself, and no other character can hear him/her. Shakespeare uses Soliloquies in order to inform the audience of Macbeth's true emotions, not only by what is being said, but also because the audiences' attention is focused on the one actor's movements and expressions. This is the reason that soliloquies are so powerful, dramatic and important particularly when used in the genre of the play."

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