Macbeth soliloquy in Act I Scene vii of Shakespeare¡¦s Macbeth reveals Macbeth¡¦s thoughts of ambitious and conscience. Macbeth is hesitating in making a decision of if he should kill the king or not: ¡§If it were done, when ¡¦tis done, then ¡¦twere well It were done quickly: if the assassination could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here¡KBesides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been so clear in his great office, that his virtues will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against the deep damnation of his taking off¡¨ ( I, vii l.1~20). This is the translation of the speech: If Macbeth will become the king after killing Duncan, then he
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