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Soliloquy The soliloquy I pick is Act 5 Sc 5 Pg 177. This soliloquy is talking about before began the war between Macduff. Lady Macbeth was dead, and Macbeth thought he lose everything on the world. He found out that he do everything wrong until right now. He thought himself is just a fool and has no value to life any more. He lost confidence for everything. And he found out that he will die soon. In Act 5 Sc5, line20-31, Macbeth’s final soliloquy is a tragic concession to the insignificance of his own existence. However, he surrenders only after a rigorous pursuit for happiness and stability. This powerful passage has a very important structural and stylistic aspect that, in a sense, concludes the play. The speech marks the end of Macbeth’s character development and conflict, and has a very distinct tone, mood, and diction. The structural significance of this soliloquy lies in its resolution of Macbeth’s character development and the relationship between Macbeth and his wife. Throughout the story, the root of every conflict has been ambition. Specifically, this ambition has been Macbeth’s quest for power. Several murders occurred as a result of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s incessant desire for authority. Consequently, after each murder, both Macbeth and his wife become increasingly more undone. This soliloquy underscores Macbeth’s ultimate tragedy and the destruction of his ambition. He comes to the realization that life is utterly worthless. Macbeth says, “And all our yesterday have lighted fools /The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!” In other words, the only purpose he believes that is served by existing on the earth is to finally reach a “dusty death.” He compares life to a “brief candle”. This brief of worthlessness and insignificance is truly the extreme opposite of ambition. Life is connected with light, but Macbeth now thinks life has no meaning anymore. “Life’s but a walking shadow.” Macbeth is saying in line8 that his life is dark and that the light of life, actually only casts a dark shadow. Life is no longer desirable and will be extinguished. He is guilt ridden and paranoid. Now the consequences of his actions have caught up with him, he must deal with them all alone. The pain of life ends through death. “And all our yesterdays have lighted fools. The way to dusty death.” Macbeth is a broken man. Like a poor stage, he tells a meaningless story, then finishes. This was the sum of Macbeth’s life and having no children to succeed him, he has reached a state of bitterness and desperation, all alone. At all, the goal to succeed is simply reflective of the underlying desire to justify one’s existence. Without justification, life becomes meanlingless and one becomes numb to the world that surrounds. The numbness is what depresses humans of essential emotions and commonly leads to suicide. This soliloquy wanted to show us that a tragedy for Macbeth. And also warning the viewers that we can’t have a lot of desire for authority. If we want something that we shouldn’t get, we can’t grab it. Or we all will become like Macbeth and his wife. Everyone will get retribution after they do wrong things. In this book, because of the desire for the authority, Macbeth became a fool and a loser finally. He lost everything including his life.