Journal of Tikrit University for Humanities

Most of the playwrights used various devices in their
literary works. Soliloquy was one of these devices which is
believed that it belongs to the Elizabethan Times, in order to
express; the thoughts of human beings, feelings, emotions and
the expected plans, so this will affect on the reader and the
audience. Shakespeare was the most popular dramatist who
used the device of soliloquy in most of his plays especially the tragedies like; Othello, Hamlet and Macbeth. This study deals
the the role of such device to reveal the secrets, hidden plans
and the conspiracies the character of Macbeth in Shakespeare's
Macbeth. It also discuses the types, purposes and the effects of
it on the character itself on one hand, and on the reader and the
audience on the other hand. As it unveiled the stages of the
progress of the character of Macbeth in the play as well as a lot
of its mysteries

This study deals with dislocation in English. It means the
distribution of information, but it is not a simple word-order
option. There are two main categories of dislocation: prefaces
and noun phrase tags.
The study aims at showing the syntactic structures and
discourse functions of this phenomenon in English. The study arrived at the following important results: (1) Dislocation is
used in informal spoken English more than in formal written
English. (2)Noun phrase tags are more common than prefaces
in informal spoken English. (3) The discourse functions of
dislocation are used to organize a topic, to develop a nature of
conversation in prefaces and to focus on the end of
conversation in noun phrase tags.