Macbeth is pushed in his conduct mainly by an extreme desire for worldly honors; his delight lies primarily in buying golden opinions from all sorts of people. But we must not, therefore, deny him an entirely human complexity of motives. For example, his fighting in Duncan's service is magnificent and courageous, and his evident joy in it is traceable in art to the natural pleasure which accompanies the explosive outgo of immense physical energy, and the relaxation which follows. He also rejoices no doubt in the success that crowns his efforts in battle - and so on. He may even conceived of the proper motive that should energize back of his great de

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But while he destroys the king's enemies, such motives work but dimly at best and are hidden in his consciousness by more vigorous urges. In the main, as we have said, his nature violently demands rewards: he fights valiantly in order that he may be reported in such terms a "valour's minion" and "Bellona's bridegroom"' he values success because it brings spectacular fame and new titles and royal favor heaped upon him in public. Now so long as these alterable goods are at all comparable with his unreasonable desires - and such is the case, up until he receives the kingship - Macbeth remains an honorable gentleman. He is not a criminal; he has no criminal tendencies. But once permit his self-love to demand a satisfaction which cannot be honorably attained, and he is likely to grasp any dishonorable means to that end which may be safely employed. In other words, Macbeth has much of natural good in him unimpaired. Environment has devised his nature to make him upright in all his dealings with those about him. But moral goodness in him is undeveloped and indeed still fundamental, for his voluntary acts are scarcely brought into harmony with ultimate end.

But the man is conscious of a profound abstraction of something far more precious that temporal goods. His being has shrunk to such little measure that he has lost his former sensitiveness to good and evil; he has taken so full with horrors and the disposition of evil is so fixed in him that nothing can start him. His conscience is numbed so that he escapes the domination of fears, and such a consummation may indeed be called a sort of peace. But it is not entirely what expected or desires. Back of his tragic violations is the permanent urge toward that supreme contentment which accompanies and rewards fully actuated being; the peace which he attains is psychologically a unfeeling attitude to pain and spiritually a partial insensibility to the evidences of diminished being. His peace is the doubtful calm of utter negativity, where nothing matters.

As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,

And with thy bloody and invisible hand

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