Interior Monologue

Introduction

This monologue of Lady Macbeth, which takes place in Act 5, Scene 1, (the events leading up to her suicide.) Lady Macbeth while sleep walking and speaking to herself, reveals the guilt and remorse she has over the murder of King Duncan. The ideologies foregrounded are that power must be taken at all costs, and the resistance to the ideology of femininity. The discourses lady Macbeth operates under were those of power, femininity and morality. The following text is an alternate reading.

Monologue

[Lady Macbeth enters the room carrying a candle]
My thoughts of pride and an overwhelming sense of achievement, an accomplishment due to great ambition, are slowly becoming those of guilt and confusion. My conscience, which I once thought clear, begins to fill with thoughts of guilt and remorse. Slowly the unforgotten memories from that merciless night overcome me and I succumb to the horrific images, the bloody daggers, and a lifeless corpse of......

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Title: Macbeth
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