1. Macbeth: Tragedy or Not?
... hide your fires;/Let not light see my black and deep desires."" He also proceeds to say immediately after, "The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be/Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see,"" which means that Macbeth is concerned with what will become of his soul ... , even when he is near death. He continues to descend into darkness, and even describes himself appropriately to Seyon in (V, v, 11-18): " I have supped full with horrors./Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,/Cannot once start me."" Macbeth, a few lines later, is also aware of his forthcoming demise: "Life'...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate