"Macbeth" by Shakespeare

Macbeth is presented as a mature man of definitely naturalised character, advantageful

in certain fields of activity and enjoying an enviable reputation. We must not conclude,

there, that all his volitions and actions argon predictable; Macbeths character, like any

other mans at a given moment, is what is being made out of potentialities plus

environment, and no one, not even Macbeth himself, can know all his inordinate self-

love whose actions are discovered to be-and no doubt have been for a wide time-

determined originally by an inordinate desire for some blase or mutable good.

Macbeth is actuated in his conduct mainly by an inordinate desire for worldly honors;

his delight lies primarily in buying golden opinions from all sorts of people. But we must

not, therefore, recant him an entirely human complexity of motives. For example, his

fighting in Duncans service is resplendent and courageous, and his evident joy in

it is traceable in art to the natural pleasure which accompanies the explosive expenditure

of prodigious physical energy and the euphory which follows. He also rejoices no

doubt in the success which crowns his efforts in strife - and so on. He may even

conceived of the proper motive which should bring up back of his great deed:

The service and the loyalty I owe,

In doing it, pays itself.

But while he destroys the kings enemies, such motives work but murkily at best and are

obscured in his consciousness by much vigorous urges. In the main, as we have said, his

nature violently demands rewards: he fights valiantly in clubhouse that he may be reported in

such terms a valours minion and Bellonas bridegroom he values success because it

brings spectacular fame and new titles and royal favor heaped upon him in public. Now

so foresightful as these mutable...

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