Lady Macbeth Monologue Analysis

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Dearest Lady Macbeth, With each passing moment, my heart seems to yearn for our reunion with even greater ardor, despite my prior belief that my love for you had already reached the zenith of human emotion. Over the course of our long and painful separation, I have experienced and endured more than I ever thought I would within the vicinity of my time on this earth, and have been forced to drastically revise my interpretations of both pure bliss and anguish. I do not believe that my experiences in war against the Norwegian invaders are in need of additional dramatization, as my recollection of the events has been blurred and warped with the trauma of battle, and word of the happenings has most likely been already transmitted to your ears. In fact, I became immediately enrobed in a haze of bewitchment, as haze so deep and opaque that all memory of the actions following the casting of the creatures’ prophetic greeting are blurred and marred, making them difficult (at best) to recall. I believe that we were met not long afterwards by the Thane of Ross and the nobleman Angus, who greeted us warmly with words of the King’s happiness and gratitude following Banquo’s and my performance in the war. They told us that the king had requested our audience, and that he was to befit us both with a sort of great honor, the type that could not yet be disclosed. While Ross and Angus did not speak of this great honor, they gave me word of the king’s recent attachment of a new Thanship to my name. These words astonished me, as two Thaneships are very seldom given to one man, but I was even more dumfounded when they told me that the Thaneship I was to inherit was Cawdor, the exact title which was prophesied to me by the supernatural figures that Banquo and I had encountered earlier that very same day! I pondered the possibility of truth behind those three spellbinding titles throughout the remainder of our party’s trek to the palace of the king, especially the latter: “All hail to thee, that shalt be king

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