Ideas for Macbeth's defense lawyer's monologue?I have a monologue to write and perform for a part of assessment. I am the Defence Lawyer for...

If your audience is supposed to be an Elizabethan one;
that is, an audience that will be receptive to the powers of the preternatural
world, you may wish to take the approach that Lady Macbeth is the fourth witch and not
truly an earthly woman.  For evidence of this sisterhood with the three "weird
sisters," meaning destiny-serving witches, you can point to Banquo's remarking upon
their "beards" that prevents his believing them women.  For, like them, Lady Macbeth,
too, unsexes herself in Act I, Scene 5 after reading the letter from Macbeth.  And, it
is after her soliloquy at the beginning of the scene in which she fears Macbeth's nature
that is "too full o' th' milk of human kindness" that she transforms herself for her
evil purposes.  Indeed, these actions are witch-like, and Macbeth, who hesitates in the
evil intent to kill King Duncan. tells his
wife,

We will proceed no further in this business:

He hath honor'd me of late, and I have bought
Golden opinions from
all sorts of people,
Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,

Not cast aside so soon.
(1.5.34-38)

but, he is overpowered by
Lady Macbeth. Still, it is only under the influence of her ridicule of his masculinity
that Macbeth kills Duncan.  For, even Macbeth, who is a great warrior, is influenced by
her "undaunted mettle."

Macbeth's strong love for Lady
Macbeth affects him in another way, too.  When Lady Macbeth loses her mind and begins to
sleepwalk, trying to remove the blood spots from the stairs, Macbeth is greatly
disturbed by her behavior and absolutely devastated by her death, as displayed in
his words when he says that he is "sick at heart" (5.3_)  In his monologue of Act V,
Macbeth has lost his way completely,

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She should have died hereafter;
There
would have been a time for such a word.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of
recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way
to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor
player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is
heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying
nothing.(5.5.19-30)

With such
preternatural happenings in which "fair is foul and foul is fair," even within his own
chambers, Macbeth's defence may ride upon his being a victim of phantasmagoria as, not
only the three "weird sisters," but also his wife is a witch who has directed his life
against his
control.