Tomorrow I have to preform a soliloquy for an AP lit class and i'd like to preform it without embarrassing myself too much with extremely dramatic acting haha. How can I preform this soliloquy well and interpret the emotion he feels without going overboard. I need advice and tips what to do and how to act it out. Here's my speech.quot;She should have died hereafterThere would have been time for such a wordTomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to dayTo the last syllable of recorded timeAnd all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty deathOut! Out brief candle!Lifes but a walking shadowA poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no moreA tale told by an idiot full of sound and furySignifying nothingquot;
The first two lines are a direct response to MacB's wife's death. You're talking about her and her untimely end. Therefore, consider delivering them with a sense of sadness and loss. MacB loved his wife; after all, he paid her the deep respect of following her suggestions about seeking power. The remainder is more philosophical about the nature of life and how short a time each person has upon earth. So: take a big pause after such a word when you shift focus from the specific loss of your wife to the larger view of humanity's short lifespan. Take tomorrow, tomorrow, and tomorrow very slowly. Try to make it sound tedious in its repetition. Don't pause at the end of the lines unless it is the end of the sentence: end of sentences are at time, death, more and nothing. Last note: the last two lines refer to the previous comment about life. As in: [Life is] a tale told by an idiot... Try to make the incomplete phrase relate back to the previous comment about life being like a bad actor. Good luck!
hmm, i'm guessing this is the part where Macbeth is talking about the death or suicide of his wife. Well, for this part you should be sort of forlorn or sad and drawn back. Not too sad though because Macbeth was too worried about his kingship even to morn over his own wife's death for too long. When you get to the part where he says out! out brief candle! that's when he starts becoming more intense.
