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Essay Archive - Macbeth: A Mature Man of Established Character
Macbeth: A Mature Man of Established Character
Macbeth is presented as a mature man of definitely established character,
successful in certain fields of activity and enjoying an enviable reputation. We
must not conclude, there, that all his volitions and actions are predictable;
Macbeth's character, like any other man's 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 long time-determined mainly by an inordinate
desire for some temporal or mut....
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