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 deed

After the murder of Duncan, the natural good in him forces the acknowledgment that, in committing the unnatural act, he has preserved his mind and has given his eternal jewel, the soul, into the possession of those demonic forces which are the enemy of mankind. He recognizes that the acts of conscience which torture him are really expressions of that outraged natural law, which inevitably reduced him as individual to the essentially human. This is the inescapable bond that keeps him pale, and this is the law of his own natural from whose toll of devastating penalties he seeks release:

Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.

But he gains no satisfying peace because his conscience still obliges him to recognize the negative quality of evil and the barren results of wicked action. The individual who once prized mutable goods in the form of respect and admiration from those about him, now discovers that even such brief satisfactions are denied him:

Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond

provides him with a will capable of free choice, and obliges his perception of good and evil.

As he returns from victorious battle, puffed up with self-love which demands ever-increasing recognition of his greatness, the demonic forces of evil-symbolized by the Weird Sisters-suggest to his weird imagination the splendid prospect of attaining now the greatest changeable good he has ever desired. These demons in the disguise of witches cannot read his inmost thoughts, but from observation of facial expression and other bodily manifestations they guess with comparative accuracy what passions drive him and what dark desires wait their fostering. Realizing that he wishes the kingdom, they prophesize that he shall be king. They cannot thus compel his will to evil; but they do arouse his passions and stir up a burning and undue apprehension of the imagination, which so perverts the judgment of reason that it leads his will toward choosing means to the desired brief good. Indeed his imagination and passions are so vivid under this evil impulse from without that "nothing is but!

The substance of Macbeth's personality is that out of which tragic heroes are fashioned. The dramatist endows it with an astonishing abundance and variety of potentialities. And it is upon the development of these potentialities that the artist lavishes the full energies of his creative powers. Under the influence of swiftly altering environment which continually furnishes or elects new experiences. Under the impact of passions constantly shifting, and mounting in intensity. The dramatic individual grows, expands, developes to the point where, at the end of the drama, he looms upon th

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