Yet Shakespeare does not make a monster out of Macbeth. To have done so would have robbed him of any sympathy an

d removed him the area of tragic interest. When the play opens he is a hero returning from the victorious defense of his country. Undoubtedly he has thought about his chances of gaining the throne, for the witched echo things in the dark recesses of his mind, but he shrinks from the violence required to seize the Crown. He is willing to show patience and wait, "If chance will have me King, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir" 25. He is near of kin to the King and under the laws of Scotland he may be chosen to succeed Duncan. It is only when Duncan creates his son Malcom Prince of Cumberland and nominates his as his successor that Macbeth is ripe for murder.

The corrosive effect of Evil upon Macbeth is cumulative until the great scene near the end of the play he receives news of Lady Macbeth's death. Numb with accumulated horrors, he no longer feels any great emotion, even at the death of his wife who had been his strength, he merely thinks bitterly that she could have chosen some more convenient time, "Sh

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