Essay Archive - Macbeth: Man of Established Character
Macbeth: 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 ....
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