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Lady Macbeth Monologue

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(Fleance appears he seems exhausted and tired. Fleance opens the door and has a quick look around.) Ah at last a haven of safety? But can I be sure after what has just happened? How could fate turntables like this? What heretic would dare raise sword against my most noble father. Revenge, it is all I seek now my once incarnadine heart has been soured, ripped from my chest and quelled. But how can I gut the heathen like a cony when I do not know thy name? I can hear his ghost taunting me with his final words ‘Thou may’st revenge, Thou may’st revenge, Thou may’st revenge’! The playing over and over drives me into a fit of rage. I shall carry out your will of vengeance once the killers veil of secrecy has been lifted. (Fleance stumbles around …show more content…

But yet he became fearful Macbeth would pursue his future actively even if the cost was betrayal through regicide. He was always father's dearest friend. My soul withers and thy body feels empty, like a husk who's been bled of all feeling at the revelation that Macbeth could be the invisible hand that quelled my father. The man cradled I as a child, he was there for our family during our steepest depression. We have truly been fobbed by the devil masquerading in the form of a man. (Fleance rages and hits the table) Why oh why would Macbeth succumb to the temptations of murder? I abhor the foul demon that plagues me with a heart of lead and a body shallow with courage. Father gift me yours so that I may drown the deceitful rats in a flood of cleansing wrath. (Fleance stands and paces angrily around the room) No, I cannot abide this treachery! I will justify my now hollow words by taking action against Macbeth and seeking justice through retribution. I would not carry on living with the knowledge that my father's killer is sweetening the ears of kinsmen with his silvertongue. With hatred as my blade and fathers guiding vengeance I will strike down all that impose I! The crickets will cry amongst my

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