... power develops as capacity for crime...his mind is as scorpions; it is tortured in restless ecstasy. Suspense has undermined his judgment and brought on him the gambler's fever...The third feature in Macbeth is the quickening of his sensitiveness to the supernatural side by side with the deadening of his conscience...In the reaction from the murder of Banquo the supernatural appearance-which no eye sees but his own ... her happiness is a plot of deceit and murder. Lady Macbeth: Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men may read strange matters:-To beguile the time, look like the time...

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