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 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, 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 expenditure of

prodigious physical energy and the euphoria which follows. He also rejoices no doubt in the success

which crowns his efforts in battle - and so on. He may even conceived of

quick escape from the accusations of conscience may possibly be effected by utter extirpation of the

established habits tending to further irrationality, and one of the penalties exacted is dire impairment of

favor heaped upon him in public. Now so long as these mutable goods are at all commensurate with his

reason is more and more blinded by inordinate apprehension of the imagination and passions of the

"Bellona's bridegroom"' he values success because it brings spectacular fame and new titles and royal

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